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Choosing a Laptop For College

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By Mary Webber These days a laptop is almost essential for a school or college student. Fortunately, there is a lar ge range of inexpensive laptops to choose from, but which one to actually get depends on a few factors. The first question is what the student will be doing on it. An Arts major will not need to run specialized programs on it and thus could do with a less powerful system. If the student is going to load a graphic design program, for example, a laptop with faster processing speeds and higher memory content is a must. The student's requirements are also important for choosing between a Windows or an Apple laptop. Apple laptops tend to be more expensive, but some prefer their ease of use. The Windows machines have a greater selection of software to use and you need to decide now what software you want to run on it before committing to one or the other operating platform. If you are getting a Windows laptop, the Vista Home Premium package is the best value for money and s

Glass Multi-touch Trackpads on New MacBook

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New MacBooks from Apple are most certainly coming in the next six to eight weeks, and probably hav e the most extensive design overhauls in years. The new MacBooks will have a glass, multi-touch trackp ad. The MacBook touch con cept, is really impractical—a mu lti-touch screen that size will get reall y tiring, really fast, since it's a lot of ground to cover, and people are lazy, minimizing mo tion. Artists could use it to zoom in and direct ly manipulate images and stuff on the screen (sorta like this). It could display system stats, do Cover Flow, or anything a s econdary or touchscreen would be useful f or. Or, you know, act like a regular trackpad when you want it to. This is ideal, and would be a logical way to move their multi-touch technology and notebooks forward, together. Dell's new Latitude E series for suits detailed by elaborate PowerPoint presentation Having been privy to a few leaked Dell PowerPoint presentations in our day, we can say without reservation tha

What You Should Know About Wireless Notebook Computers

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By Victor Epand Wireless notebook computers are a very much loved and popular item in the world of computers. Those who have experienced the daintiness and sophistication of a notebook, know why they prefer it. It really energizes them to get their work done when using a notebook computer. Let us study these energizing form of computers that give us the ease to work at it and with it. If you want to get some good information about notebook computers, this article is for you. Wireless notebook computers are considered to be the standard form of computers. The new computers have built in wi-fi that enables it to connect to the internet in a flash without a modem or NIC cards. The laptops will find all the necessary connectivity available automatically. This describes its wireless facilities without any flaws. But they are showing their wireless features in more than one way. You will really be surprised to know the variety of wireless options. Mobile broadband offers high speed data con