PCs

Notebooks

Characteristics

Portable

Small

Thin and Light

Advantages

Affordable

Powerful

Multiuse and easily assessable

Disadvantages

Less powerful than other computers

Limited internal storage

Lower processing power

Desktops

Characteristics

Extremely Powerful

Separate Display and Computer System

Stationary

Advantages

High Amount of Storage

Fast at Processing

Last a long time

Disadvantages

Hard to move around

Expensive

Take up a lot of space

Mobile Devices

Characteristics

Accessible Anywhere

Able to send and receive information wirelessly

High usage of convergence

Advantages

Easy to use and set up

Affordable

Extremely portable

Disadvantages

Can't readily compute a large amount of data

Limited storage

Easy to cause distraction