From the course: CompTIA A+ (220-901) Cert Prep: 6 Laptops and Mobile Devices

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Laptop ports

Laptop ports

- Laptops come with a dizzying number of different types of ports on them so for me to cover the ports that are on the A+ alone, I had to get three different laptops. So, first of all, I got a nice little Macbook Air here. Then, for the Windows side, I've got a mainstream Dell. Pretty standard mainstream Dell laptop. And then, to make sure I've got everything covered I've got this beasty high end laptop, so what I want to do in this episode is we're just gonna kinda go around each one of these three laptops and talk about the different types of ports so I think, let's start with the behemoth. All right, so on this guy what do we have? Going from left to right I've got an SD card reader, and then I've got USB-3. I can tell by the blue connector there. An old school VGA connector and Ethernet. Now if I turn it around to the back what I'm gonna have here is, going from left to right, another USB connector, this is good old HDMI which I use a lot on this one because I plug it into an HDMI…

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