Friday, August 17, 2007

GPS laptops

GPS
Certainly this is a new technology in laptops to revolutionalize the role and the usefulness of laptops in our lives. First, let us define GPS and why is it incorporated in our laptops. GPS stands for Global Positioning System, a satellite navigation system. There is even a sole device known as GPS and as new and new technologies are arising, GPS has been integrated into our everyday gadgets. It is already in cellphones to locate the owner of the cellphone or even to know the exact coordinates of a particular location. GPS are also built into cars so that they are easily traced and as an added protection against car theft. The laptop industry is not to be left behind too with the rise of GPS laptop computers.

GPS Laptps
Some GPS laptop computers are laptops with a built in Global Positioning System in them and some of them use GPS receivers to come up with a live or real time feed. A laptop could turn into a GPS laptop by inserting a GPS system or a GPS receiver into the USB port of the laptop. After that your real time mobile positioning system is good to go. Other GPS laptopcomputers are dubbed as such because of the LXGPS software installed in them. Unlike the previous one where you still have to connect something a separate GPS system to the USB port of your laptop, when you already have GPS installed, Global positioning is so easy and very accessible.

GPS Laptops Uses
GPS laptops are useful for planning trips, especially for locating hot spots such as restaurants, hotels and other tourist attractions, The GPS would also be useful for knowing your exact location especially if you are on a foreign territory, it could also become handy in situations where you are lost because you can use them to plot your exact coordinates, A GPS notebook could also become handy when on cross country skiing trips, they are also useful for field scientist and researchers to get information such as mapping coral reefs, monitor traffic and other tasks that are better performed with the aid of a positioning system.

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