Archive for December, 2010
Best Budget Laptop of 2010: HP G62t
There are plenty of cheap laptops to be found online and off, but to find a budget priced laptop with decent power and build quality can be a challenge. In 2010 this task was made a bit easier thanks to the HP G62t consumer laptop which is our pick for Best Budget Laptop of 2010. [...]
How to Encrypt your Hard Disk with TrueCrypt
In our previous Notebooks.com article, we took a look at the encryption capabilities built into specific editions of Windows 7, Ultimate and Enterprise. For those not running these particular editions, the article might not have been as useful, but more of an incentive to upgrade to those editions if you need those capabilities. If you [...]
How to Encrypt Your Hard Drive With BitLocker
Protecting personal data, especially intellectual property, is one of the major concerns of businesses and individuals today. Billions of sensitive data transactions take place across the globe daily. Keeping that protected is becoming an even more complex task, one of the the biggest concerns being espionage and misuse of information that can jeopardize the safety [...]
Best Tech Clothing of 2010: ScotteVest
When it comes to carrying your gear around you could use a laptop bag or your pants pocket, but if you want to do it right we suggest getting a ScotteVest jacket, pants or shirt. We’ve been using ScotteVest Travel Clothing on a regular basis for the past year for it’s versatility at work, on [...]
Best Mid-Range Laptop ($500 to $700) of 2010
When it comes to general consumer laptops the market is flooded with mid-range notebooks in the $500 to $700 range that have very similar features and specs. In this crowded arena it can be hard to stand out, but the Sony VAIO EB series did just that earning our pick for best Mid-Range Laptop of [...]
Playing Favorites: Which Shift Key Do You Use?
After we shared our Ten Keyboard Commandments this week we heard from several other writers how much specific parts of our manual for a perfect laptop keyboard resonated with their typing habits. This group includes Jason Dunn from LaptopThoughts.com who has to deal with Canadian keyboards that have an oddly shaped left shift key and [...]
25 Tech Tools to Buy For Last Minute Home Office Tax Deductions (Section 179)
Time is running short to buy home office supplies and technology tools to claim on your 2010 taxes. For business owners and sole proprieters with a home office you only have two days left to buy and pay for technology items to deduct on your 2010 taxes. With this in mind we’ve rounded up 25 [...]
Best Business Class Laptop of 2010 – ThinkPad Edge Series
When it comes to laptops for use in the business world often we are drawn to the big black ThinkPad notebooks that grace the desks of corporate America, but in 2010 we found a new line of notebooks from Lenovo that caught our attention with design and price — the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge series which [...]
Best Netbook of 2010: HP Mini 210
It’s been a tough year for netbooks who have had to compete with the iPad to become a companion device for consumers, but this competition is a good thing as it has led to better netbooks. While there are many great netbooks out there we chose the HP Mini 210 as the best netbook of 2010 because it [...]
iPad 2 Case Shows Off Slots for New Features (Video)
It’s no surprise that Apple is working on a new iPad for 2011 and with reports pointing to three different versions of the iPad 2 its also no surprise that we are hearing more about what the next iPad might look like and what features it might have. There’s another iPad 2 Case that is [...]
