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i) Typical features of a laptop
- Keyboard on a laptop: The laptop’s keyboard is built into the body of the laptop unlike a
desktop where the keyboard is separate. It is smaller and the keys are closer together.
- Touchpad: laptops don’t have a mouse. They have a touch sensitive rectangular area in
front of the keyboard. One moves the fingers across the touch pad which causes the
cursor to move across the screen.
- Click button: There are two clickable buttons beneath or beside the laptop’s touchpad
which act like mouse buttons
ii) Extra devices for presentation and purpose of each
- Audio and video cables: These are cables which connect the laptop and the projector
during presentation
- Projector and remote control;- The projector will project a video signal from the laptop.
- Remote control:- This is used to power the projector on and off and also used to navigate
through the various slides of the presentation
- Power Cords and power adapters which connects the projector and the laptop to the
power source .
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