Monthly Archives: October, 2009
Netbooks and Performance
Almost all netbooks (apart from some of the early Acer and Asus devices running Linux) are supplied with 1GB of RAM. Microsoft has further cemented this by defining lower license fees for Windows XP for computers with small screens and only 1GB of RAM, which means that this is the most popular memory configuration for [...]
iPhone Battery Life… improvements
The iPhone has (like many 3G smartphones) always had poor battery life when using connectivity for email sync etc. As new firmwares have become available, this life has improved generally, so that I have only had to recharge twice a day sometimes. However with the release of the 3.1 firmware, my battery life took a [...]
Portable Storage on the Road
I use a variety of different storage mechanisms on the road, what with online backup, file synchronisation and online storage locations… as well as the huge amount of storage that even the most basic laptop provides these days. My old netbook went through the upgrade from 80GB to 250GB which effectively meant unlimited amounts of [...]
WiFi on Aircraft
Recently I had time to ruminate on the availability of WiFi on aircraft. There is much written and said about this in the US, and on the face of it, it seems that this would be a Nirvana of tech. However there is a big issue with it in the short haul flights of Europe, [...]