Tag: performance
The Key to Unlocking the Secret to HP’s Elite Tough
HP invited a number of foreign and domestic press to tour its campus in Houston, Texas where HP notebooks are designed and engineered. On the first day, upon arrival, HP left a welcome kit that introduces the theme of the three-day tour: HP’s Making of Elite, which will highlight not only the technological innovations behind [...]
How to Turn off Windows Aero: To Speed Up Windows 7
If your computer is not performing as fast as it should be, you can do some quick fixes to speed things up a bit. One of them is turning off the Windows Aero theme. Introduced in Windows Vista, this new experience focused on providing an elegant user experience for the Windows environment. Most modern systems [...]
How To Remove Items From Startup In WIndows 7
Whenever you install programs they tend to add a program to your Startup folder, which allows the program to start immediately when Windows starts. This can greatly affect the performance of your system and even cause some instability. Some startup programs can even prevent other programs from installing or starting properly. How to Remove Programs [...]
Asus Eee Pad Transformer April U.S. Release and $399 Price Confirmed
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is an exciting device that is at its base a tablet like the iPad, but can transform into a notebook with an optional keyboard dock that also adds battery life to the Android HoneyComb 3.0 tablet/notebook. We’ve been following the Eee Pad Transformer closely, and now it looks like we have confirmation [...]
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Walkthrough Videos Arrive & Excite (video)
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is finally making its way into the hands of consumers in the UK, and we expect a U.S. release very soon. In anticipation, Asus has posted a collection of Eee Pad Transformer videos showing off the Hardware, Sound, Cameras, HoneyComb 3.0, Performance and GPS. These videos have only left us [...]
Benchmark: Apple MacBook Pro Refresh Shows Performance Boost
Benchmarks of the new MacBook Pro are showing that the refresh is going to bring a nice performance boost for users. The biggest difference between the older models and this year’s is the processor and graphics chipset. Apple went with Intel’s brand new Sandy Bridge version of the Core i3, i5 and i7 CPU. That’s [...]
Gmail May have 99% Uptime, but it’s Extremely Slow for Many
Gmail likes to brag about being up and running 99 percent of the time, but for many users it has been extremely slow. When we experienced this here at Notebooks.com, we wondered if it was just on our end, but after looking around we found that we were not alone. The Huffington Post reports many users [...]
Quick Tip: How to Defragment Your Hard Drive
Defragmenting is one of the maintenance tasks you have most certainly heard about when it comes to using Windows, but not everyone knows how it works or how to defragment your hard drive. What is Defragmenting? Disk Defragmenter rearranges fragmented data so your disks and drives can work more efficiently. When you don’t fragment your [...]
How to use Windows ReadyBoost To Speed Up Your Computer
When Windows Vista reached the beta 2 stage of development, one of the touted features of the new operating system was a feature called ReadyBoost. The purpose of this new feature was to give PC’s a performance boost that actually needed it to efficiently run the new operating system by supplementing RAM using affordable Flash [...]
Quick Tip: How to add more memory to Windows XP Mode
If you use Windows Virtual PC with Windows XP Mode on any of the supported editions of Windows 7 (Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate) you might realize that the default allocated memory (256 MBs), just might not be enough for your needs. There is a quick solution for that, give it more RAM. Now this all [...]
