Diagnosing Laptop battery issues can be a painful process, but all laptop owners should know the possible problems and solutions. If you’ve ever seen the movie iRobot, you know how helpless we’d ever be if our technological devices took on a life of their own. I’ve experienced that on a daily basis while putting my […]
Smart Students: 6 Laptops That Won’t Break The Bank
As a student, the most important thing you can buy is probably a laptop. It has become a necessity to complete your assignments, organize your files and of course to stay in touch with friends. A high-end product with an impressive price-tag is probably what you need. However, what you should look for is a […]
Average Laptop Life – 4 Tips To Care for Your Laptop
The average laptop life is not that great, but if you hear ‘Taps’ playing in the background, it’s because I just had to put down an important member of my crew – my trusty laptop. To be fair, this machine was still running Windows 95, had a floppy disk drive, and a network card would […]
Toshiba Portégé R705-P41
There’s only one word that describes the Toshiba Portege R705-P41: Wow. Just look at its features, starting with the Intel Core i5 processor with two cores each running at 2.53 GHz. That’s over 5 GHz of combined processing power—which can be extended to almost 6 GHz of combined processing power using Intel’s selective over-clocking mode […]
The ASUS UL80Vt-A1
It amazes me that the ASUS UL80Vt-A1 really does get almost 12 hours of battery life, even in real-world tests. Twelve hours is a whole day of classes or meetings or anything else, plus time to relax and watch a movie before plugging in the computer and going to bed. But there’s more to this […]
The HP Pavilion DV6–2162NR
As a geek, I’ve always appreciated how HP crams everything into their computers—take for example the HP Pavilion DV6–2162NR. HP started with a 64-bit Intel Core i3 processor running at 2.26 GHz (with two cores, it’s actually twice that speed). Mitz actually has a HP laptop and she claims that it really gives even the […]
The Toshiba Mini 300 Series NB305-N310
The thing I love about netbooks like the Toshiba Mini 300 Series NB305-N310 is that you can take them anywhere. You might still have the dilemma, laptop or netbook, of course it depends on your needs. Running across campus? Just pick it up and go. At only 10.5 inches in its longest dimension and only […]
The Toshiba Mini NB305-N410BL
The Toshiba Mini NB305-N410BL is the successor to one of the most successful netbooks ever made, and Toshiba has only made it better—as evidenced by it winning an Editors’ Choice award from Laptop magazine. A quick look at its features shows exactly how much it shines. Previously we have published an article about a student […]