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Lenovo 2 Day Sale – up to Extra 15% off Thinkpad Notebooks
From Dealsea As someone in the market for an X300 or whatever the revised X300 becomes, I was really impressed with the sale price of the X300 (normally $2200+) of around $1400. Lenovo has up to Extra 15% off Thinkpad Notebooks valid through Oct. 24. Use eCoupon code “USPYPWWPOCT” in cart to see extra savings Lenovo new IdeaPad S10 [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu Power Saver Settings Could Damage Hard Drive
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
It seems that the default ACPI (power saving) settings for hard drives while running on battery power mode could be causing your hard drive to run an insane amount of load cycles, manifesting itself in “clicking” sounds and also the hard drive’s mechanical portions to be stressed quite a bit more than normal and life [...]
Continue reading...New Vista Laptops Take Ages to Boot
Friday, April 6, 2007
The Wall Street Journal did a piece on a new Sony Vaio that the author got with Windows Vista on it and how sluggish the laptop is overall. My favorite quote from the article is: I also was shocked at how long this machine took to restart and to do a cold start after being completely [...]
Continue reading...Laptop Model Numbers are Confusing
Friday, December 29, 2006
I was looking around the web at some laptop’s from different manufacturers and while some are so clearly laid out from lowest to highest (Apple) others seemed to be named in a completely random fashion, making it impossible to tell a damn difference between them without seeing a side-by-side comparison matrix (Lenovo, Samsung). Are these companies [...]
Continue reading...Choosing a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo Laptop
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
or Introduction I’ve been in the market for a new laptop recently and have been trying to decide between purchasing a new Core Duo system now, or waiting a few months for all the Core 2 Duo laptops to be out and then take my pick. A usage requirement I realized recently that I had [...]
Continue reading...10 Tips on Maximizing Laptop Battery Performance
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Jeremy Toeman has put together an excellent post on getting the most out of your laptop battery over on his blog here. While some of the tips are fairly self explanitory (like closing unused programs) he goes into a bit more detail specifically mentioning programs we tend to ignore and leave open like IM clients, [...]
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
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