Laptop vs Supercomputer - What's the difference?
laptop | supercomputer |
(computing) A laptop computer.
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, title= (computing) Any computer that has a far greater processing power than others of its day; typically they use more than one core and are housed in large clean rooms with high air flow to permit cooling. Typical uses are weather forecasting, nuclear simulations and animations.
In computing terms the difference between laptop and supercomputer
is that laptop is a laptop computer while supercomputer is any computer that has a far greater processing power than others of its day; typically they use more than one core and are housed in large clean rooms with high air flow to permit cooling. Typical uses are weather forecasting, nuclear simulations and animations.laptop
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(wikipedia laptop)Alternative forms
* lap-top (slightly dated)Noun
(en noun)Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops , sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}