Laptop vs. Netbook Computer
January 14, 2010 by Janet7 · 33 Comments
The type of computers called netbooks, being as they are more or less new on the scene, have additional descriptions placed on them like mini laptop computers or simply ultraportables. The phrase notebook computer being synonymous with laptop.
Netbook computers, are pigeon-holed as being within the subnotebooks classification, that is a very fast – developing class of smaller, lightweight, lower price range laptop computers that’s designed for standard computing as well as the utilization of web-based applications (they are enabled to connect to the Internet wirelessly).
They’re offered more or less as supplementary devices that can add to a person’s regular computer resources. Additional descriptive references can include: small, light-weight, minimalist and cheap laptop computers; as well as smaller, less pricey laptop computers.
Announced during the lead up to the winter holiday shopping season of ’07 – as being smaller laptops optimized for low weight together with low price – netbook computers did not include the cd/dvd drive, settled with smaller screens and in the same way keyboards, and scaled back on specification and processing capacity.
In the years since then, the netbook’s display dimensions have varied from a little bit less than five inches to just slightly more than 10, with their weight in the 1 kilogram (2. 2 pounds) range.
By the summer months of 2009 netbooks had become more than a little bit more cost effective when compared with traditional laptops, to the almost unimaginable of having even been provided as being a free bonus in consideration of the commitment to an Internet service plan by AT&T in Atlanta, Georgia
During the short period in time since their release, computers known as netbooks have been increasing in dimensions as well as features, and in tandem netbooks are being made less in weight and smaller. Consequently, physical characteristics like how long and wide they are and what their weight is will not be what can tell them apart.
As it looks these days, perhaps a Netbook is able to be described to be a smallish, lower-powered notebook that lacks an optical disc drive(cd/dvd player/recorder). On the other hand that probably will not be for too long either, seeing as optical drives are being designed ever smaller and will soon be accommodated in a netbook. Add to that the rapid improvement of wireless connectivity in computers will make it so that external media like dvd’s and blu- ray disks can easily be done without.
So, for the time being, a netbook computer might best be labeled as a smaller, lower cost laptop computer devoid of an optical drive.
Barco scores with their PACS workstation for mamography
October 2, 2009 by Janet7 · 20 Comments
PACS workstation for browsing and reconstruction of the images off-line. By using the PACS workstation for image reconstruction, the ultrasound system can now be used strictly for image acquisition, allowing for more efficient use of the modality and shortening patient wait time in the department. PACS monitors are configured accordant to customer preference with only recent high quality components. Equipped with Dual-XEON processors, special graphic boards , RAID systems (S-ATA or SCSI), and adequate main storage, our PACS workstations also cope with very computing and data intensive applications.
Medical imaging specialist Barco Displays has scored a new success with its innovative Coronis Fusion 6MP DL solution, the world’s first diagnostic display system featuring a 6 MegaPixel 30-inch screen. The company has landed a significant deal from GE Healthcare, Australia, to deliver a large number of multi-modality 6MP display systems, along with several other PACS displays, to five hospitals in New South Wales, Australia. Medical device manufacturers have an even more specific duty to understand the complaints of their users. A glitch in this realm has the potential to kill, and that is not an exaggeration.
Images do not have to be stored locally, but the queried server must know the target server’s DICOM properties. In local mode (table color is green) a c-Send request will be sent to the target server. Images are available using a VPN and medical lcd monitor to connect to the LAN and then connect to web server. Unlimited web viewer licenses for referring physicians. Images and explanatory text are accessible to radiologists and clinicians alike, both on the hospital campus and from home (via VPN). Results and Conclusions: To our knowledge and in published opinions, there is no enterprise wide PACS system which offers an integrated DTF system or one that performs adequately to create, archive and allow access across a multifacilty teaching environment.