How To Care For Laptop Batteries

If you are thinking of getting a laptop then there are a few things that you are going to have to learn to take care of. When taking care of a laptop, people usually only think about taking care of the laptop itself. However, you also have to be able to take care of [...]

SAMSUNG Mass Producing Industry’s First 1.8-inch, 64GB SSD for Laptops

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced that it has begun mass producing 1.8-inch solid state drives at 64GB - the highest density SSD available today for mobile computing applications.
“We see sharply increasing interest in SSDs among OEMs worldwide amid a growing push to launch premium SSD-based notebooks, particularly in [...]

Infected Seagate Hard Drives - Chinese subcontractors blamed for trojan horses

Investigators say the tainted Maxtor portable hard disc, made by Seagate, uploads information saved on the computer automatically to Web sites in Beijing

A shipment of Maxtor external HDDs, produced in Thailand by US-based Seagate and sold in Taiwan, has been found to be infected with Autorun trojans designed to gather sensitive data from machines connected [...]

Laptop Hard Drive Recovery

To avoid paying a lot of money and saving yourself from trouble of losing all your important data, backing up your local files once a week is recommended. Back up your files using CD-RW or DVD-RW or you can backup your files online.But if the worse has happened and you have already lost your files [...]

Notebook Battery Repair

The greatest strength of a laptop is its portability and the fact that it can be used without needing any external power connections for hours at a time. This makes a notebook battery one of the most important parts in a laptop computers. It is very important, hence to take care of a notebook battery. [...]

Over 50% of All Notebooks to have Flash Storage by 2010

More than half of new notebooks to use Flash drives by Q4 2009,
shouts the headline on market watcher iSuppli’s latest missive, before admitting soon after that, actually, it’s counting not just solid-state drives but also regular HDDs with integrated Flash cache and separate caches like Intel’s Turbo Memory module.
Still, it shows that non-volatile storage chips [...]

Acer Recall of Sony Laptop Batteries

San Jose, Calif., April 25, 2007 – Acer America, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, today announced a voluntary recall of approximately 27,000 rechargeable lithium ion batteries containing battery cells manufactured by Sony Energy Devices Corp. Under certain circumstances, these batteries may overheat and create a potential fire hazard. As announced previously [...]

Sugar-charged Laptop Batteries

The power sources in our laptop computers, Apple iPods, cell phones, and other electronic mobile devices may have a sweet future: rechargeable batteries that run on sugar. Researchers at Saint Louis University in Missouri are testing batteries that run on sugar and have the potential to last up to four times longer than lithium ion [...]

How To Protect Your Laptop

Getting a laptop can be a rather big investment and after sinking your money to invest in a laptop, I am sure you will want to protect it from scratches and other forms of damages.
Fortunately, there is a cheap and great way to invest in the protection of your laptop:
A [...]

Testing Notebook Batteries

During their working life, rechargeable batteries in a notebook computer are repeatedly re-charged after they have been drained. The charging is accomplished by applying externally supplied electrical current through an adopter. The electrical current enters in the battery and reverses the chemical process which occur in the battery while it is in use. Devices to [...]