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Weve had our fair share of fun with Windows 7 beta so far, and were not going to boast about it but think it might bring some serious competition to you know who. That said, We have just come to learn that Microsoft will allow you to hange the login background of Windows 7.

The original purpose of laptops was to enable users work from wherever they want. Over the years the popularity of laptops grew and now different types of laptops are available to suit a variety of consumer demands.

Ultra-portable Laptops
As the name itself indicates ultra-portable laptops are the smallest laptops. These laptops are designed for frequent travelers and they don’t weigh very much. If you intend to buy an ultra-portable, choose a model that offers the most RAM possible. If your laptop doesn’t come with good RAM, you will have difficulty running multiple programs on it.

Thin & Light Laptops
Thin and Light laptops are ideal for infrequent travelers. They are portable but weigh slightly more than the ultraportables. Thin and Light laptops are ideal for working with documents and surfing the internet because they come with better and bigger displays.

Mid-Size Laptops
Mid-size laptops are for home users. Most mid-sized laptops are reasonably priced. They are easy to set up and use. Mid-size laptops don’t offer great battery life. So you shouldn’t consider buying one if you travel frequently.

Desktop Replacement Laptops
Desktop replacement laptops aren’t for travelers. They are very heavy and not portable. They don’t offer good battery life either. You can consider buying a desktop replacement laptop if you want to replace your older desktop with a newer laptop.

We exhausted several time to shape out what is essentially going on with NVidia laptop chip problem. We were told by numerous sources that the subject has been merely blown out of quantity and that the state of affairs is unquestionably much healthier than most of the people suppose. We were briefed by business sources that so far neither Dell nor HP have summoned up a solitary laptop using NVidia GPUs. You may be conscious that mostly laptops with Geforce 7 and Geforce 8 mobile chips are pretentious, and so far there are no stories that Geforce 9 mobile series are having the similar issue. The question is associated to a mobile chip wrapping and apparently, somebody utilized a wrong recipe of materials that is breeding to this issue.

Dell and HP have publicized pre-emptive software updates and unmitigated warranty programs for pretentious variants, but they and supplementary OEMs havent subjected a complete extensive GPU recalls. Dell and HP are almost certainly the most exaggerated, merely as they are advertising much more SKUs in comparison to anyone else. This should be a sign of that the mobile GPU predicament is not a prevalently epidemic. Compared to Sonys latest recall of 440,000 VAIO laptops, the NVidia concern really doesnt appear to be a noteworthy one, as it has not enforced a single vendor to summon up a single unit.

Leaked information from Fujitsu Siemens Computers reveals that the corporation is scheduling to launch an elucidation in the next duo of weeks. The AMILO Graphic Booster is pivoted on "ATI XGP" expertise and makes it possible for Fujitsu Siemens AMILO laptop owners to promote their graphics accelerator card, something that was not feasible in the ancient times. Fujitsu claims a 4.7X recital development with the Graphic Booster compared with the graphics of a "small form factor" AMILO laptop, which are most aptly incorporated.

While on the move, users can put aside the Graphic Booster behind and benefit from extended battery life courtesy of their onboard graphics elucidation. The Graphic Booster permits users to hook up up to 3 exterior displays to their laptop: it comprises DVI-D and HDMI connectivity options. It is indistinct how this piece of equipment connects to the laptop itself and whether it will labor with other laptops besides from the Fujitsu Siemens variants or only the AMILO’s.

No pricing particulars are obtainable at this instance, and some specifications remain indistinct, but this is a hopeful piece of equipment. ASUS revealed its own peripheral graphics card elucidation, the XG Station, at CES 2007, but they have botched to make public anything of the sort that was shown of; over a year afterward nothing has debuted on the market and the company has maintained noiseless about it.

Asus will be the first company to give USB 3.0 support with its P6X58 motherboard. Motherboards supporting USB 3.0 are expected to become available by the end of 2009.

The new P6X58 motherboards will use 2 USB 3.0 super speed ports. They will also offer support for Intel’s Core i7 processors, six DDR3 slots, 3 PCI ExpressCard slots, and new SATA 3.0 ports which supports 6GB/sec transfer rate. The USB 3.0 standard will offer transfer rates of up to 4.8GB/second which is accomplished through extra data lines. Currently no USB 3.0 devices are available, so this port will not be usable at the moment.

Pricing and availability
No information regarding pricing or availability has been announced as yet.

Dell has always allowed buyers to customize their netbooks with Linux. But the company never really bothered to launch the netbooks with Linux. With its last few product launches Dell offered Windows XP/Vista at the time of launch. The Linux option was offered only later. But now it looks the situation is changing. The just-launched Inspiron Mini 10v is available with both Windows and Ubuntu Linux. Sources reveal that Dell intends to do this with all future netbook launches.

Users who buy their netbook with Linux don’t have to pay the Windows Licensing fee. That should bring the base price down, right? Unfortunately it doesn’t seem so. The base price for the Inspiron Mini 10v is $299 whether you configure it with Windows or Linux.

Pixel Qi says that its 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel displays are already in production. And now the company has announced that Notion Ink is going to be first manufacturer to release a product with its transflective display. The upcoming Notion Ink tablet will run Google’s Android. It will be powered by a NVIDIA Tegra T20 chipset. The Tegra chipset will give it enough power to handle 1080p HD video while at the same time reducing overall power consumption.

The Pixel Qi display can operate in two modes: fully saturated color mode and grayscale ePaper mode. The ePaper mode will save energy and make the display readable in bright settings. And while working indoors you can change the settings to fully saturated color mode and use the device as a computer. The tablet doesn’t have a physical keyboard, but it can be used for surfing web over WiFi. It can also be used as an eBook reader. Notion Ink says that you will be able to play HD video continuously for up to 8 hours.

The tablet is feature-packed. It supports WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G wireless and GPS. It has USB, HDMI, SD card slot, headphone and mic. It also has a 3 mega pixel webcam. For storage there is a 16GB or 32GB onboard flash storage.

Notion Ink is expected to show off the device at CES. No word on pricing or availability as yet.

What kind of Laptop travel guide would this be if we didnt begin by talking about the category of notebook youre bringing with you during your travels? Laptops come in all shapes and sizes and the nature of Laptop you bring will be based on your requirements. You might require a 17-inch multimedia Laptop for grave gaming on the road, or a 7-inch EEE PC for light travel usage and web browsing.

For commerce trips I habitually pack my 15" ThinkPad T60, or my labor provided 14" Dell D630 if they make me. These laptops are probably the principal I would consider traveling with as they can be relatively profound. If you dont require the presentation of a full size laptop, get the negligible laptop you can pay for. For budget mind-full travelers, an ASUS EEE PC begins as low as $299, and for the more brand conscious people an SSD planted Sony VAIO TZ might be a better choice.

Notebook Bags and Slipcases:

Notebook knapsack or Messenger Bag: A high-quality notebook bag can be the disparity between a pleasurable trek and an excruciating adventure. Always shop all around for bags, examine reviews, and on top of all else try to stumble on and accumulate that sells the bag so you can endeavor it out. What might seem relaxed to one person might be aching to another since bodies can diverge in silhouette and size, or pain tolerances. I like to pick a big that is no bigger than the breadth of my body and has very extensive padded shoulder straps. If the backpack is no wider than me, I know that if I can fit through something my bag should as well. Broad shoulder straps come in when hauling grave loads, and being gifted to multiply out the weight in excess of a greater area to thwart high pressure spots.

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Epson plans to add another netbook to its Endeavor lineup – the Na02-mini-V. It is aimed at the Korean market.

The Na02-mini-V has a 10.1 inch display with 1024x600 native resolution. It runs on an Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz processor with Intel’s 945GSE graphics chipset. Other specifications include 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive.

There are three USB 2.0 ports, Wi-Fi, multi card reader, Ethernet and VGA ports. The netbook sports an attractive design. The 6-cell battery is expected to give up to 10 hours of uptime.

Pricing and Availability
The Na02-mini-V will be available in the Korean market from November. Prices start at ¥39,800 ($427).

Although Acer is all set to unveil the first NVIDIA Ion powered nettop PC, the Acer AspireRevo, netbooks with this technology is still a speculation.

While rumors have been circulating for a while about NVIDIA Ion packed netbooks with nothing concrete, pocket-lint.com has reported that a number of companies are getting ready to announce NVIDIA Ion powered netbooks as early as June and some of them are even all set to release these netbooks by July. However there was no indication of which companies will make the announcement and according to their source, “confirmed that there will be some big announcements from ‘key’ players at Computex, the annual PC trade show in Taipei at the beginning of June.”

With this technology, along with the standard Intel Atom chip the netbooks will use the brand new graphics chip from NVIDIA called ION which will allow users to handle more challenging applications than ever before. With NVIDIA ION, playing games like Spore or Portal and viewing 1080p content will be possible in a netbook. You can even get your hands on applications like Cooliris and access Google Earth which is not feasible with any of the current netbooks.

PC makers favor hitching their project to large Linux distributions because they get the freedom to develop optimizations for low screen resolutions, low power processors, and other hardware used in netbooks. Ubuntu Linux is one such popular version of Linux specifically optimized for netbooks running on Intel Atom processors such as Asus Eee PC.

Eeebuntu is a customized version of Ubuntu and enjoys a huge fan base among the netbook user community. One of the major problems faced by this project is that it has to keep itself updated whenever a new version of Ubuntu arrives. And Ubuntu is known for releasing a major update every six months. Their latest update is due to be released on October 29 and PC users who have installed Eeebuntu on their computer may find it incompatible due to errors in Ubuntu 9.10’s Intel display drivers. Eeebuntu developers say that the Ubuntu 9.10 is full of problems that could affect the functionality of netbooks. They say that things that worked just fine in Ubuntu 8.10 are no longer working in 9.10.

Steve Jobs in his WWDC 2008 keynote revealed the extremely expected 3G variant of Apples iPhone- twice as quick at a partly price. The new iPhone 3G will be tagged at $199 for the 8GB variant and just $299 for the 16GB sculpt. Apples iPhone 3G will be obtainable in more than 70 countries soon after this year, opening with customer accessibility in 22 countries - Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States on July 11.

IPhone 3G puts together all the ground-breaking features of iPhone with 3G networking that is two times as quick as the 1st generation iPhone, inbuilt GPS for prolonged position based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which contains hold up for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and spices it with the hundreds of 3rd party applications previously built with the lately unconfined iPhone SDK. IPhone 3G supports Wi-Fi, 3G and EDGE networks and automatically snaps between them to guarantee the best ever probable download speeds. It also contains the new-fangled Application Store, on condition that iPhone users with citizen applications in a range of categories counting games, business, news, sports, health, orientation and travel.

According to media reports, Intel has stopped accepting orders for its Z-series Atom processors. Originally meant for use in the Mobile Internet Devices (MID), the Z-series processors are now commonly used in netbooks like Eee PC T91, Sony VAIO P and Dell Mini 12.

Intel plans to completely stop the supply of Z-series chips to netbook manufacturers by the end of this year. The chipmaker will still fulfill orders already placed by Acer, Asustek and MSI. Meanwhile, Intel’s new generation of Atom chips are scheduled for release later this year. These new chips are part of the Pine Trail platform.

Graphics card maker Nvidia will soon release a light edition of their popular Ion chipset. The new version – Ion LE - will be slightly underpowered. It will also have a lower price. While the full edition of Ion chipsets will be able to run DirectX 10, the lighter edition of Ion will support only DirectX 9. Ion LE will still be able to decode 1080p video content.

The Ion chipsets are commonly paired with netbooks using the Windows Vista operating system and the Intel Atom processor. While Ion is not the best graphics card out there, it is still a great option for most users who are not into heavy gaming. Nvidia said that Ion LE products will be compatible with the soon-to-be launched Windows 7.

1.Make sure that your laptop’s intake and exhaust vents are not clogged up with dust. Poor air circulation will cause your laptop to get hotter fast. This will affect the performance of your laptop apart from damaging its internal components.

2. Declutter your computer. Clean up your registry and remove old and unused files and programs.

3. Having a lot of programs on your startup list can make your computer slow. Remove unnecessary programs from the startup menu.

4. Solid-state-drives are costlier than drives having moving parts. But they are much faster.

5. Use a good Antivirus Program. Home users can use the powerful AVG antivirus program for free.

6. Encrypt your drive to ensure that the important documents stored on your laptop are safe. BitLocker and TrueCrypt are popular drive encryption programs.

7. Keep every program and application that run of your laptop up-to-date.

Apple recently released a firmware that was supposed to (unofficially since they never claimed it would) fix the memory problems some owners of new Macbooks/Pros were experiencing where their 4GB RAM laptops would suddenly freeze up.

Samsung is expected to announce two new notebooks soon. Dubbed X420 and X520, they will have a CULV processor.

The Samsung X420 will use a low voltage Intel Pentium Dual Core SU2700 1.30 GHz processor. Other hardware specifications include a 250GB 5400RPM hard drive and 3GB DDR3 RAM. The X420 has a 14 inch display.

The X520 has a 15.6 inch display. It is equipped with an ultra-low voltage processor with a 320GB HDD and 4GB DDR3 memory. The graphics on both notebooks will be handled by the integrated Intel GMA X4500M cards. There will be the usual number of ports. The 6-cell battery is expected to give up to 9 hours of battery life. The notebooks are expected to be released after the official launch of Windows 7 in October.

Your laptop needs to be thoroughly cleaned at least once a year. The recommended cleaning procedure for laptops differs from model to model. So read your User’s Manual before you clean your laptop.

Cleaning the Exterior
You can clean the exterior of your laptop with a soft damp cloth. Do not use a scratchy or abrasive cloth for cleaning. Also avoid using harsh cleaning agents. Do not spray the cleaning solution directly onto the casing of the laptop. You need to spray it on to the cloth first and then wipe the casing thoroughly.

Cleaning the cooling vents
Use a bottle of compressed air to clean the cooling vents. Don’t spray hard. Use cotton swabs to hold fans in place while you clean them.

I/O PORTS:
You can wipe away large pieces of dirt that may have accumulated in the ports with cotton swabs. You can also blow compressed air on to the ports.

Cleaning the Display
Use a non-abrasive cotton cloth for cleaning the display. Do not use ammonia based cleaning solutions as they will leave a film. Do not spray the cleaning solution directly on to the display. Spray on the cloth first and then wipe the screen with the cloth.

Cleaning keyboard
Use compressed air or cotton swabs to remove the dirt build-up in and around the keys. With some laptop models you can remove the keys for cleaning. Read your user manual to see whether yours allow this. Be sure to put the keys back into their proper places after you are done cleaning them.

The Samsung Electronics Corporation, the memory chip manufacturer, supposed Friday that it may procure a flash memory producer, SanDisk, in a transaction that may possibly restructure a struggling industry. A getting hold of of SanDisk would swell Samsung’s bazaar share at a time when prices for flash memory, utilized in products like digital cameras, cell phones and music players, are diminishing piercingly. The agreement would also trim down Samsung’s licensing costs. “We are seeking at an assortment of opportunities regarding SanDisk, but not anything has been sure yet,” a Samsung spokesman, James Chung, revealed. In an authoritarian filing soon after, Samsung told one of its alternatives would be to get hold of SanDisk.