Recent content by El_Capitan

Just watch out for the company boasting their own battery life time. I'm not sure about their Bapco's MobileMark 2007 Productivity test. If you look at their site: http://www.bapco.com/support/mobilemark2007/Manual/rules.html Display brightness: The user perceived display brightness must stay...

A single processor will actually do. Having multiple sites opened (tabbed or new windows) only takes up some memory, but not that much to slow your computer down. I'd recommend at least 2GB memory, but the more the better - though the faster you make your netbook/notebook, the faster you'll...

If you're looking for speed, anything that has 2 cores should be fast enough for most of your work. Anything over 2.0 GHz is overkill. Since you won't be using games, integrated graphics will save money and drain less power. 14" and smaller will restrict your vertical viewing, but decrease...

Nope.

Well, some of them I've been suspecting they deactivated it because of the TLB bug back in '07. Even if you unlock it, you'll experience some problems you probably don't want to experience.

I remember my first Archos MP3 player back in the late 1990's or early 2000's. It didn't work. They wouldn't accept a RMA. Never bought one since, and never will.

Well, once December/January hits, there'll be sales a dozen. Also, you won't be able to overclock the i7 920 on the notebook - not that you'd need to. You can't softmod using setFSB, but you could hardmod the PLL (though I'd not risk it). For any extreme processor (hence the i7 975 and...

If you're going to go for CPU speed, get the 975 instead, but otherwise, you'll see more of a performance boost with a SSD drive than .4 GHz extra CPU Frequency. With a 975, you can overclock. Or, you can get an X9550... lower base frequency but also lower 95W instead of 130W, so lower...

Still, another comment from a netbook user - don't buy netbooks thinking they'll do more than they can. You know what my gripe about netbooks are? It's a gimmick. Instead of coming up with innovative ways to build smaller and lighter notebooks with longer battery life, they're packaging up...

So, the only valid reason I've heard to get a $350 netbook is for taking notes in college. That's it? A college-ruled notebook and pen isn't good enough anymore? Plus, you're taking classes from 8-5 every day in college without a break? You can't charge your laptop in-between classes, I take...

Good article. I don't understand the purpose of netbooks. $350 for a portable device to mainly use Office Word? 1. I'm no coffee, tea, or latte person who hangs out at the cafe to work. I'm usually hanging out while waiting for somebody. Maybe if I was writing something a netbook might be...

You might just be unlucky. If you got it from Newegg like me, chances are you got one of the more difficult ones. You can try to manually unlock the 4th by putting the ACC setting to "per core" and turn the Value of the 4th core to -6% and see how it goes. Put cores 1-3 at -2%. Worked for...