Tips & Tricks Alex Bentley - 17 March 2009 - 3:44pm While laptop's are designed to keep all components as safe as possible, there are nevertheless extra things you can do to keep it as protected as possible. While the most obvious step is to buy a well-padded carry case, you can al...
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Tips & Tricks Philip Barker - 17 March 2009 - 3:29pm It鈥檚 all too easy to fill your laptop鈥檚 hard drive with files and applications, and the more software you add the slower it鈥檚 likely to run. Traces of programs are even left behind after you鈥檝e uninstalled them, potentially slowi...
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Laptops Tommy Melville - 17 March 2009 - 3:44pm If you鈥檙e in the market for a decent low-price multimedia laptop then Toshiba鈥檚 Satellite A350 may be worth a checking out. Not only is it great looking, but it also provides plenty of power for basic home use. The 16-inch laptop features an...
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Tips & Tricks Alex Bentley - 17 March 2009 - 3:09pm When running a laptop at home from mains power, many users leave the battery plugged in at all times, so that it's always fully-charged for when they want to hit the road. What they often don't realise though, is it by never letti...
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Tips & Tricks Alex Bentley - 17 March 2009 - 3:25pm Due to the portable nature of laptops and netbooks, the data it holds is unfortunately always at risk of both theft and loss. While it's impossible to keep your laptop 100% safe at all times, you can ensure that your data is kept ...
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Tips & Tricks Tommy Melville - 16 March 2009 - 4:49pm Despite increased compatibility between Apple鈥檚 Leopard and Windows Vista operating systems over the past few years, there are still some Windows applications you can鈥檛 run on a Mac. The only option being if you want to run thes...
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Alex Bentley - 13 March 2009 - 4:14pm Depending on your email client, you may find a way to backup the emails built in. However, not many have this facility, or if they do, it鈥檚 pretty basic. So, you will generally have to rely on a third-party program. If you use Mozilla Thunderbird, then there...
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Alex Bentley - 16 March 2009 - 4:49pm To save hard drive space on your Windows XP netbook, make sure to uninstall any software applications that you rarely use. You can do this by browsing to Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs and choosing exactly which programs will ge...
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Tips & Tricks Philip Barker - 16 March 2009 - 3:10pm Most laptops that are brand new come with loads of software pre-installed 鈥?a lot of it trial-only, and many applications that you may not even use. The more software you install, the longer it鈥檒l take your laptop to start up, bu...
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Laptops Tommy Melville - 10 March 2009 - 8:35pm To coincide with their twentieth birthday, Asus invited us to the London Design Museum where they were throwing a bit of a party, as well as showing off some of their forthcoming laptops. On display was the gaming W90 laptop聽鈥?which we pre...
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Alex Bentley - 11 March 2009 - 5:54pm While Toshiba鈥檚 Qosmio range provides high-end multimedia usability, it is now targeting the entry-level high-definition market with the Satellite A350, an affordable high-quality 16:9 HD laptop, with a range of multimedia features. The 16-inch Super-TFT sc...
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Netbooks Philip Barker - 10 March 2009 - 5:21pm Earlier today we popped along to London鈥檚 Design Museum, where Taiwanese manufacturer Asus was showing its latest kit. Along with the Eee PC T91 and Eee PC 1000 HE netbooks, we also got the chance to see one of the company鈥檚 upcoming prod...
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News Tommy Melville - 11 March 2009 - 5:55pm Ever since the The Flip burst onto the scene, electronics manufacturers have been producing a growing number of highly portable digital cameras 鈥?with some now capable of filming High Definition footage. Kodak鈥檚 Zi6 is one such machine. Compa...
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General Review Smartphones 3G/HSDPA T-Mobile Philip Barker - 11 March 2009 - 5:29pm Ever since we first saw T-Mobile鈥檚 G1, we鈥檝e been waiting to have a proper play with it and get to grips with the Android operating system. The Android OS is a collaboration between the network op...
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Tommy Melville - 13 March 2009 - 11:49am Acer鈥檚 Aspire One was among the first netbooks to be released in the UK, following hot on the heels of the original Asus Eee PC. Since then it has gone on to become the best selling netbook, and is now joined by the Aspire One D150. The Aspire One D150 f...
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Tips & Tricks Alex Bentley - 13 March 2009 - 3:59pm Although many laptops come with CD and DVD disc burning software pre-installed, some don't or they are trial versions which soon stop working. While CD burning software used to fairly simple, most suites, such as Nero Burning Rom ...
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General Review Accessories Creative Philip Barker - 10 March 2009 - 1:45pm With a group test of MP3 players coming up in issue 124 of What Laptop, the past week has seen some of the contenders arrive in the What Laptop office. Without a doubt, one of the most impressive is Creative鈥檚...
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Alex Bentley - 13 March 2009 - 12:01am Roxio Creator 2009 is the only complete digital media software that lets family members of every age and experience level easily create, preserve and share their stories and passions. With a range of powerful tools for music, video and photo editing, disc l...
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Alex Bentley - 13 March 2009 - 11:49am Up for grabs is a fantastic 17-inch Toshiba Satellite P300-1FN laptop; perfect for high-performance multimedia use. Powered by a dual-core Intel processor and an impressive 4096MB of memory, it delivers outstanding performance for home and offi ce use. With...
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Netbooks Philip Barker - 12 March 2009 - 10:45am With tens of different netbooks currently available, and hundreds of different variations, it can be impossible to know which is best for you. This is where American peripherals specialist OCZ comes in, offering what it refers to as a fully ...
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