February 06, 2009
Mobile computing has got better with lighter components, better chips and faster processors. But the Achilles heel of a laptop has remained its battery. Modern graphic intensive operating systems and resource hungry applications are cutting down the life of your laptop’s battery every day. The ave...
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January 20, 2009
The time it takes to boot up a computer can be a source of frustration — especially if you’re in a rush and just want to log on, get information and move on with your day. If televisions took as long as PCs take to start working, we’d miss game-winning touchdowns. Slow boot-up time...
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Katherine Boehret
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January 09, 2009
The other day, in my post 9 Ways to Get Better Battery Life, I detailed a number of steps you can take to greatly extend the time you spend with your notebook unplugged. As I mentioned there, quite a few of the tips collected came from readers of an earlier post I did, many of whom made the point ...
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Samuel Dean
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January 03, 2009
Filed under: Gadling Gear Review I've already looked back at the best gadgets 2008 had to offer, and in this list I'll take a look at some of the travel technologies I expect to take off in 2009. Come back next year to either laugh in my face, or remark how amazingly clever I am. Computer/data bundl...
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Scott Carmichael
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November 05, 2008
Somewhere between the laptop and the smart phone, the computer industry has long believed there could be a small, low-cost device that would please consumers and sell well. The device would be more versatile than, say, an iPhone, but much cheaper and more portable than, say, a ThinkPad. The trouble ...
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October 22, 2008
Apple’s MacBook laptop, the company’s low-end portable computer aimed at average consumers, isn’t just any old product. It’s the best-selling Macintosh in history, at a time when Mac sales are growing much faster than sales of PCs in the U.S. overall. And, according to the sa...
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October 16, 2008
In the exciting new category of modern hand-held computers — devices that fit in your pocket but are used more like a laptop than a traditional phone — there has so far been only one serious option. But that will all change on Oct. 22, when T-Mobile and Google bring out the G1, the first...
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July 01, 2008
Filed under: Storage If you just shelled out some pretty pennies for the a high-speed, low-power SSD, Tom's Hardware may have stumbled onto some findings that won't sit well. According to a rigorous benchmarking session, they discovered that not only do the drives not save you battery power... they ...
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June 17, 2008
When I was a child, trips to my grandmother’s house meant playing with a magical toy: her Polaroid camera. Grammy was confined to a wheelchair at a time when most people drove to the drugstore to get film developed, so this instant camera worked as her portable darkroom. She lined her “P...
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May 07, 2008
For years, the ThinkPad line has been the class of Windows laptops — offering rugged, simply designed machines with great keyboards, even in small sizes. But ThinkPads have always been aimed at corporate buyers, not the broader consumer market. So Lenovo (0992.HK), the Chinese company that too...
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