This week a new touchscreen kit designed for Samsung NC10 netbooks hitted eBay for about $99. The kit comes from the same folks (FidoHub.com) who brought us touchscreen kits for 8.9 inch netbooks including the Asus Eee PC 900/901, Acer Aspire One and 10.2 inch laptops including the Eee PC 1000 series and the MSI […]
Symptom: DVI for BIOS, initial Windows Startup Screen, and default VGA resolution works. Any other resolution gets a “No Signal” after it boots. Problem: My Acer AL2216W DVI’s EDID got corrupted in some way. So when my video card (ATI X1950) read the EDID and saw a bad checksum it ignored the device; thus a ‘blank’ screen, where my […]
Lacking a headphone at the moment, I went to a Dutch audio store (Expert) yesterday to buy myself a professional headphone. I’ve had much pleasure with Sennheiser products in the past, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I narrowed down my wishlist in 10minutes to Sennheiser! Still … they had about 8 different […]
I was reserving funds for a MSI Wind Love Edition netbook, but just read the Samsung NC10 is widely available in the Netherlands. Advantages over the MSI Wind: better position of Fn/Ctrl keys, multi touchpad, 2.5x more battery life(!!), better casing construction, full size < > keys, near silent fan operation, no ticking harddrive, standard […]
“All-in-one” PC become more and more popular this days, with Apple Macs leading on this market. Surely, why keep clumsy and noisy black box under your desk with ton of wires hanging, when you can use stylish and wire-free all-in-one PC that sits on your desk and attracts attention? While this market is captured by […]
The Internet is expected to change dramatically over the coming three to five years, with dramatic growth in traffic, business changes, and a shift from the traditional Internet Protocol to a next generation Internet Protocol. A presentation about IPv4 / IPv6 transition status and recommendations: Related posts: Endpoint Protection User Review: Avast Business CloudClare vs […]
How fast (or should I say slow) is a Atom N270 (most commonly used in netbooks) really? Notebookcheck.net made a nice overview. To make a shortlist. It’s comparable to a Celeron M353, P4M-1.7, or P3M-1200. That’s nice, but not on par with the bigger notebooks, but you knew that already didn’t ya? Just saying to […]
