I recently upgraded the client’s old laptop hard drive laptop to a hybrid drive from Seagate: Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB Hybrid What’s special about it? It’s got 8GB of solid state drive. That makes its speed somewhere between a standard hard drive an SSD. The drive intelligently moves commonly used files to the solid
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I was recently asked to speed up a slow laptop. Here are the steps that I took: Apply Windows Updates: The computer had downloaded lots of updates (including Vista Service Pack 2) that were just waiting to be installed. This was a multi-step process since not all the updates could be updated in one package.
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When clients give me computers that have lots of dirt and smudge on the screen, I grab iKlear to clean it. I saw a few years ago that it’s what Apple uses to clean laptops, especially the white MacBook prone to discoloration. Now I also use iKlear to clean phones, tablets, and TVs. Do not
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There are several MiFi devices out there these days but none as cheap as the one by Virgin Mobile. A MiFi allows you to get on a cellular network via your devices WiFi. Your laptop or iPad has WiFi but probably not built-in cellular network support. This bridges that gap. You can also use up
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It would be easy to dismiss the new MacBook Air as slow due to its apparently slow processor but if you did, you’d be wrong. Offerings The new Air comes in 4 base models. $994 – 11.6″ 1.4GHz CPU 64GB storage $1194 – 11.6″ 1.4GHz CPU 128GB storage $1294 – 13.3″ 1.86GHz CPU 128GB storage
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