report for ICT systems used in diffrent working styles

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Working Styles Report

LAPTOP:

Laptops are stating to be used more and more as they improve in technology. Before it was all computers, big bulgy computers and then the laptops in which you could carry them around with you anywhere, maybe while travelling and the internet would still be accessible and so maybe going to work and something needs to be finished off, on the train it can be easily finished. Laptops are also very cheap, they cost around the same amount as computers and so are even better technology yet cost the same amount.

Benefits:

There are many benefits of using laptops incluse there being greater flexibility, computers are not restricted to physical network points.

Costs are reduced, both capex (i.e. reduced cabling and installation time) ,there’s less disruption for installation in an existing office, it provides opportunities for workers not to be bound to a desk in a stuffy hot office but outside where there's fresh air, it makes the company look updated and have a better image so more people would go to that company ,laptops are small and easy to carry around ,and they can be used in many places with wireless technology, it is much easier to exchange files with other people when using the laptop and only little additional training is needed for people to use laptops if they know how to operate an desktop computer.

How they use this technology?

The technology is used in many ways to help businesses run, here are some of the jobs the laptops do- Wireless local area networks are used on laptops which sends electromagnetic waves rather than wires to transmit data between devices making it easier to use, Wireless area network using WiMAX is a developing technology that provides broadband connectivity on laptops, emailing to send information or requests to other workers, internet for research and emailing, databases to store mailing list of customers for work.

, word processing software to type up information and letters etc…

 , and the laptops are also used to design logo's and advertisements for businesses.

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How the technology meets their needs:

Laptops meets worker needs by helping them to be able to take their work wherever they wanted, saves owners of laptops from being strapped to a desk all day, but having a laptop it can be taken anywhere you like.

, just like a notebook can save a document on it and take the laptop with you to show someone or something like that etc…, it helps workers communicate with other people using emails, gives them the internet if installed to research anything they like, and databases which can be used on laptops ...

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