Acer managed to strike gold in the middle of a global economic crisis thanks to their affordable Acer Aspire One netbooks. These low-cost, ultraportable laptops have quickly become popular travel companions for people who don’t want to haul a heavy notebook to Starbucks. The latest 10-inch Acer Aspire One, the D250 series, offers a great [...]
The HP Compaq 6730b is the “business” edition of the 6730 laptop line recently released by HP. Business means balanced mobility and power. There is a 6730w for “workstation replacement” and 6730s as an entry product. It’s priced in the $1,000-$1,690 range, depending on the configuration. My model was bought in Switzerland and came only [...]
The world of cheap, ubiquitous, and nearly identical Netbooks has been a stable and predictable landscape for a while now, and hasn’t gotten any less predictable with the launch of Intel’s next generation of Atom processors. Whereas Netbooks used to run Windows XP, have N270 processors, and 1GB RAM/160GB hard drive as standards, now Netbooks [...]
At first blush, the Viliv N5 would seem the perfect device for those who feel that smart phones like the Droid X and tablets like the iPad don’t offer the full PC experience of running a desktop OS with all your favorite applications, but for whom netbooks are too cumbersome to tote around. This 5-inch, [...]
Improving: Help techs report that the the majority of troublesome notebook elements will be the hard drive, screen, and also keyboard. When you probably won’t desire to substitute an expensive laptop computer screen, you aren’t the right tools and even any slight physical inclination could change the hard drive, keyboard, along with other parts, by [...]
Anyone with a notebook or tablet PC knows that at the end of the day, battery life is still the key mobility factor when using a notebook on the road. Some users might turn to extended batteries, while others already have one and are looking to squeeze out handful of minutes before they run out [...]
