Tag Archives: Performance
Notebook Performance
I had cause recently to have an online conversation with a reader who believed that the only worthwhile computer equipment was the very fastest thing you can get. This person was looking at the needs equation from their own perspective which was as a gamer. This is so small a percentage of computer users, particularly [...]
Key Performance Factors for the Mobile Worker
I was an instant convert to the netbook concept – the low cost, ultra light and small laptop with good battery life and excellent connectivity, at least when combined with 3G cards. I still am, and I keep my Asus 1008HA charged up and available whenever I am travelling and suspect I need a PC [...]
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 [...]
Instant on boot systems
There has been some discussion in recent months about developments in making laptops and other computers start instantaneously. These developments seem to be based around fiddling the shut down mechanism so it part starts or by implementing a mini-Linux OS in flash like with Splashtop Linux, to give an option to the standard start mechanisms [...]
Netbooks Returns update
This is an update on a previous post about Netbook Returns. Well it seems that more information about Netbook returns has come available and this was actually based on machines that are not short of RAM or performance, as the quote from MSI’s Director of Sales, Andy Tung found on the Digital Home Thoughts site. [...]
Netbooks Returns
There has been some noise floating out there about the return rate on Linux based netbooks. Now I would like to see some more detail about this, as I could expect a certain lack of familiarity causing some people to return machines, but not at the scale being reported. What is interesting about the date [...]