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Gaming Laptops Are Now Worth The Cash

I think I’m right when I say there are two types of expensive laptops. On one end you have the large, beefy gaming laptops and on the other you have the ultra mobile portables which are ridiculously priced. Both command high price premiums. Gaming laptops seem to be more practical for everyday use if you’re replacing a desktop pc whilst the ultra mobiles are the best option if you are syncing with your desktop at home. The market for ultrea portables is very small and the most popular screen size is 15.4 inch. A new phenominen seems to be the cheap portable laptops that are 10 inch or smaller, low powered and only usable for a number of common tasks. If I had to choose just one the gaming laptop will always win as the majority of people who require mobility can still be portable with the average 15.4 inch size.

Intel were first into the notebook market and that has made a difference. The centrino label has signified a certain level of mobile experience however there has been some misunderstandings regarding what centrino laptops are. Common misconceptions include thinking that just because the laptop has an intel processor that makes it a centrino laptop. Some consumers fail to understand that centrino is a marketing platform that implies the laptop has an intel mainboard, intel processor and intel wireless card.

When purchasing gaming laptops the processor, ram and graphics chip are the most important parts one should think about. You need a processor with a minimum speed of 2GHz and it must have two cores. Minimum requirements for ram are 2GB if running Windows Vista but 3GB is recommended for the best performance. To play games you need to have a dedicated graphics card. 256MB is the standard dedicated video memory to look for. I think an Nvidia 8600M card should be good for playing all the latest games well. Anything better is a bonus and will just make frame rates a lot quicker.

So gaming laptops do offer the functionality of a desktop pc and if you want to play games then they play all PC games rather well too but what about gaming consoles? The PS3 and Xbox 360 could offer a threat to the thought of buying a gaming laptop. Choosing just one is still difficult as gaming laptops still command a high price tag for the added functionality and benefits they give but the majority of consumers would be willing to make the investment to kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

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Key Challenges that Engineer-to-Order manufacturers face include
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Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: OSPF Route Redistribution Review

OSPF route redistribution is an important topic on the BSCI exam, and it’s a topic full of details and defaults that you need to know for the exam room and the job. To help you pass the BSCI exam, here’s a quick review of some of the OSPF route redistribution basics.

To see if a router is an ABR or ASBR, run show ip ospf. This also displays any routes being redistributed into OSPF on this router.

R1#show ip ospf

Routing Process “ospf 1″ with ID 1.1.1.1

Supports only single TOS(TOS0) routes

Supports opaque LSA

It is an area border and autonomous system boundary router

Redistributing External Routes from,

connected, includes subnets in redistribution

rip, includes subnets in redistribution

When redistributing RIP into OSPF, the “subnets” option is needed to include subnets in redistribution. When redistributing OSPF into RIP, a seed metric must be specified. (OSPF gives redistributed routes a default metric of 20 - this can be changed, but a seed metric does not have to be set.)

R1(config)#router ospf 1

R1(config-router)#redistribute connected

% Only classful networks will be redistributed

R1(config-router)#redistribute connected subnets

R1(config-router)#redistribute rip subnets

R1(config-router)#router rip

R1(config-router)#redistribute connected metric 1

R1(config-router)#redistribute ospf 1 metric 1

By default, routes redistributed into OSPF are marked as E2 routes. The metric for these routes reflects only the cost of the path from the ASBR to the destination network and does not include the cost of the path from the local router to the ASBR. By contrast, E1 routes include the cost of the entire path from the local router to the destination network.

O E2 5.1.1.1 [110/20] via 172.34.34.3, 00:33:21, Ethernet0

6.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets

O E2 6.1.1.1 [110/20] via 172.34.34.3, 00:33:21, Ethernet0

172.12.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 2 subnets, 2 masks

O E2 172.12.21.0/30 [110/20] via 172.34.34.3, 00:33:32, Ethernet0

O E2 7.1.1.1 [110/20] via 172.34.34.3, 00:33:21, Ethernet0

15.0.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets

O E2 15.1.1.0 [110/20] via 172.34.34.3, 00:33:32, Ethernet0

To redistribute routes into OSPF and mark them as E1 upon redistribution, use the metric-type option with the redistribution command.

R1(config)#router ospf 1

R1(config-router)#redistribute rip subnets metric-type ?

1 Set OSPF External Type 1 metrics

2 Set OSPF External Type 2 metrics

R1(config-router)#redistribute rip subnets metric-type 1

Look at the same two routes in R4’s routing table, which are now displayed as E1 routes:

O E1 5.1.1.1 [110/94] via 172.34.34.3, 00:04:13, Ethernet0

6.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets

O E1 6.1.1.1 [110/94] via 172.34.34.3, 00:04:14, Ethernet0

BSCI exam success and earning your CCNP certification depends on knowing the details, and there are plenty of details involved in OSPF route redistribution! Keep studying, practice different scenarios in your CCNA / CCNP home lab or rack rental, and you’ll master these details and pass the exam!

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