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Purchasing a laptop can be difficult at the best of times. But throw in the fact that you have a deadline of making your purchase before the 24th December – then the pressure can really be on to make sure you buy the best PC.
Look in any electrical superstore, check online or pick up the [...]
Posted by admin on Monday, December 8th, 2008
It seems a week can’t go by without another PC manufacturer launching a netbook. This time it is the turn of Packard Bell to enter what is becoming a very popular market.
The 8.9-inch netbook is built around an Atom processor with 160Gb of hard disk space and 1Gb of RAMand and features a full installation [...]
Posted by admin on Friday, November 21st, 2008
Juicy tricks
TechRadar.com ran a great article last week about how to make your laptop battery last so much longer. We thought it was such a great article we have added some of the best points here:-
Top Tips to make your laptop run that little bit longer…
1. Turn everything off
It might seem straightforward, but you’d be [...]
Posted by admin on Monday, November 17th, 2008
As more people look for inexpensive, lightweight secondary laptops to fulfill basic computing needs like web surfing and e-mail, they are turning toward the ultra mobile PC (also known as netbooks).
Ever since, Asus started the craze for the mini laptops other manufacturers have been readying themselves to enter the market. Now that these smaller PCs [...]
Posted by admin on Friday, November 7th, 2008
The data protection company Credant Tehnologies recently carried out a survey of London and New York taxi drivers and found some amazing facts about the sort of things people leave behind in taxes.
The survey was carried out simulatenously amongst 300 New York Yellow cab drivers and 300 London taxi owners to highlight the growing number [...]
Posted by admin on Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Following the recent announcement by Dell of its E4200 laptop with a massive 19 hours of battery life, Hewlett-Packard have taken up the gaunlet and announced a new laptop that adds another 5 hours of laptop use between each charge.
The new developments show how much investment is being made by the major computer brands to [...]
Posted by admin on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Computer supplier Dell announced the biggest change to its laptop line in years with seven new E-series Latitude laptops including the world’s slimmest, lightest and longest lasting ultra portable mobile, the Dell E4200. Designed to provide mobile business users with improved battery life, usability and durability the new range of Latitude and Precision laptops are [...]
Posted by admin on Friday, August 15th, 2008