Choosing a Laptop for Presentation

December 1st, 2008 Posted by Edy
in Category Computer Tips, Featured, Laptop / Notebook |

If you are the type of person who uses laptops for presentation and meeting purposes, then this article is for you.

Using a laptop with features suitable for presentation will help you to effectively deliver your reports or presentations.

Choosing a laptop for presentation will be easy since you know your computing needs.

First, you must consider the video functionality of laptop. With this functionality, graphics card and laptop screen size should be considered.

Some laptops have shared memory function for the display feature. A graphics card with 32 or 64 MB of dedicated memory should be your target. This will help produce a good video output for your presentations.

For the laptop screen size, a widescreen display can be useful. When it comes to presenting your report or slides, you can enable the dual monitor trick.

You can setup your laptop so your report or presentation doesn’t appear on the laptop you’re presenting from while the slides display normally onscreen. That will enable you to use the laptop for other uses like displaying your notes.

For the dual monitor trick, you can use Microsoft Windows dual-monitor mode. To set dual monitor mode, connect your projector normally through your laptop’s VGA port.

Right click on the desktop and select “Properties,” then “Settings” tab. Configure this tab so that your laptop screen is Display 1, and the projector is Display 2, and then click OK.

For the presentation like PowerPoint, choose “Set Up Show” from the “Slide Show” menu. In the “Multiple monitors” area, choose “Monitor 2″ from the drop-down menu, and then click OK.

Second, you must consider the audio functionality. It is very important that the audio functionality of your laptop is working and the sound is good. This will help you play needed audio tracks or videos for the presentations.

Thirdly, your laptop must have DVDROM drive and USB ports. Flash disks and CDs or DVDs are used to store presentation files for easy access.

Lastly, you must consider the software bundled on the laptop for presentation purposes. Microsoft PowerPoint is one of the leading presentation software suites today. Fenix flashlight is the producer of high quality flashlight.

Be sure that you have one that is compatible because many presenters will need to edit their reports or presentations on different computers.