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5 Tips For Netbook Buying

27. August 2009 | by Jonas

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5 Tips For Netbook Buying

This must be the day for lists.  Netbooks have gone mainstream enough that even nontech magazines are covering them.  Case in point: Smart Money magazine has an article on tips for netbook buying advice. While none of these are earth shattering, for those that haven’t shopped for a netbook before, it is an excellent starting point.  [...]

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Top Ten Netbook Upgrades

27. August 2009 | by Jonas

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Top Ten Netbook Upgrades

After you’ve purchased your netbook, down the road, you start to wonder if this is all the performance that it’s capable of.  Well, in computers, there is almost always something that can be tweaked to edge out just a little more performance.  In other words, you don’t have to settle for a subpar experience.  Just [...]

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Quickly customize Firefox for your netbook with the Meerkat extension

10. August 2009 | by Robert Nelson

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Quickly customize Firefox for your netbook with the Meerkat extension

For regular netbook users, a constant item on the to-do list seems to be improving performance as well as maximizing the use of your display. As someone who regularly uses my 10-inch Eee PC 1000H for blogging, I can comfortably say that every pixel counts and while I have spent plenty of time customizing my [...]

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Image editing on a netbook made easy with IrfanView

26. May 2009 | by Robert Nelson

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Image editing on a netbook made easy with IrfanView

Netbooks are often touted as being great for checking your email and casual web surfing, but they are often overlooked as a good work machine. Granted a netbook would not be suitable for everyone as a work machine, however for those like myself (a blogger) they are just fine. In fact they can be very [...]

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How to install a Windows 7 RC1 or Ubuntu 9.04 on your netbook without an external CD/DVD drive

11. May 2009 | by Robert Nelson

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How to install a Windows 7 RC1 or Ubuntu 9.04 on your netbook without an external CD/DVD drive

This past few weeks has been an exciting time when it comes to new operating systems. We have seen the Release Candidate of Windows 7 as well as Ubuntu 9.04 become available to the public. So, you have your netbook and want to install and play around with something new, but don’t know where to begin. [...]

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