Maximizing Battery Life on Your Netbook

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For many of us who use Netbooks, we value our sense of portability and are often using our computers in places where it’s not easy just to plug in the AC power adapter. There are a few simple strategies that you can use to get the most time out of your batteries in order to maximize your portable productivity. First, configure the software settings in your netbook to maximize battery longevity over performance. This will mean making the screen a bit more dim and spinning down the hard drive when not in use. While the machine will probably feel a bit slower, this is better than trying to work with a dead laptop!

If your netbook allows exchanging batteries, that also gives you a few more options. (Some netbooks have a permanent built in battery which you cannot remove or change. Most do have normal removable batteries.) First, if you are currently using a 3 cell battery which is the most common type, you can look into buying a 6 cell battery instead which can almost double the battery life.

Acer Travelmate 8204WLMi Won Best Choice Award

The growing market of laptops is the reason why more competition in making excellent and quality products is high. DELL, Hewlett Packard, Toshiba and Sony which are the laptop manufacturing companies setting the bar high for other companies by introducing new features and functions in laptops. After these famous companies, Acer is also an emerging company for building laptops that are top of the line in market these days. Acer has also established a confidence in their customers and a reliable/trustworthy reputation in the whole market which is now resulting in more and more spotlight to the products of Acer.

Acer Travelmate 8204WLMi

Acer being the emerging laptop manufacturing company has proved it being the most reliable and trustworthy company that has become one of the competitive laptop companies these days. Acer has targeted their laptops for businessmen and students who like an efficient and a laptop with good features and functions. Acer laptops have also won many titles including for the best features, reliability and efficiency. Therefore, Acer is not only popular when it comes to looks but their laptops have a different style and touch to themselves which always reflects in their machines.
A new laptop launched these days by Acer is the Travelmate 8204WLMi which has an Intel Core Duo T2500 with a 2.0 GHz processor running in it. The laptop screen is for about 15.4” WSXGA + TFT LCD having a 1680 x 1050 16.7 Million Colors which is carbon fiber protected which results in no waves when touched which gives maximum protection to

Laptop For Life – HP G60-440US 16-Inch Laptop

The HP G60-440US is a 16-inch laptop that is designed for work and play. It runs on the Intel Pentium T4300 processor (2.1Ghz) and 3GB of RAM (that is upgradeable to 4GB). Storage wise, this model comes with a 320GB hard drive. It runs on Windows Vista Home Premium. The 16″ screen is a HD display, playing videos at a 16:9 ratio and 1355 x 768 in resolution. It comes with wi-fi capabilities (802.11a/b/g/n). For graphics, it relies on Intel’s GMA 54000MHD Dynamic Video Memory Technology 5.0.

The HP G60-440US measures at 14.9 x 8.8 x 1.7 inches and weighs 6.6 pounds. Unlike many of HP’s more adventurous laptops, this model sports a rather asketik design. It has an simple all-black, glossy external casing and a silver/gray surface for the keyboard and track pad area.

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