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Netbook Memory Upgrade
Aug 22, 2009 16:38 - 0 Comments
I decided this week that I would make the only simple upgrade to my netbook and double the memory it has in it from 1gb to 2gb. For this I bought a stick of memory from the ever reliable Crucial for £12.64 delivered. It arrived within a couple of days of ordering and took less [...]
Getting Software onto your Netbook
Aug 7, 2009 14:50 - 0 Comments
A friend of mine recently bought a netbook and was wondering how he could install software onto it that he had on CD.
There are a number of ways to achieve this: buy an external usb-CD/DVD drive to plug in, share the disk out from another machine and access across a network or create an [...]
Netbook v3
Jun 29, 2009 18:20 - 0 Comments
So I am in the market for a new Netbook (some would ask when am I not in the market for a new gadget). This would be my third, therefore I think that you can safely say that I am a convert to the form factor.
There have already been two iterations of Netbooks. Version 1 [...]
Moblin – the Netbook OS
Jun 17, 2009 18:12 - 0 Comments
I have been playing around with a new OS interface that is optimised for netbooks and specifically those running on the Intel Atom processor, which is most of them. Moblin has a simplistic and very appealing interface that quickly gives you access to all the functionality that you are likely to need from a Netbook. [...]
Netbook as a eReader
Jun 2, 2009 22:02 - 0 Comments
Always on the lookout for ways to extract the most from my Netbook and having eyed up the Sony’s eReader in Waterstones I thought I would see whether the former could act as the latter.
eBooks are all the rage at the moment, particularly in the states where Amazon’s Kindle seems to be doing a roaring [...]
