Hey guys, it’s been a while since we’ve posted on here.
The site has had plenty of visitors which is why we left things alone for you guys to keep using the tutorials etc…
Theres been so much happening recently, lots of new netbooks, tablets and not forgetting the iPad!
We’re thinking of reviving this site, if we go ahead there will be plenty of upgrading and updating over the next few weeks. We are on the look out for people who would like to contribute to the site with their netbook/tablet reviews, stories, gossip, etc etc… so feel free to contact us if you fancy helping out.
Speak soon all.
Admin
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Time for our second touch screen install tutorial and this time we’re going to use the MSI Wind. As you may or may not already know the MSI Wind comes in many other brand names other than MSI. For this tutorial we’re going to use the Advent 4211. The touch screen we used was supplied by www.fidohub.com who are based in Taiwan. So far we’ve used two of their touch screens and both times everything has been superb. Hoda Technology/Fidohub were also featured on the MSNBC Top 10 Gifts for the hard-core techie and we are confident we are fitting a quality component.
You can buy the touch screens direct from fidohub, we were supplied with a Fed Ex shipping number so we could trace every step of the parcel’s journey and shipping only took a few days from Taiwan to the UK.. Continue reading »
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We’ve got a tasty treat coming up for you guys but we’re not going to give the game away yet.
All we will say is “watch this space.”
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We would like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year and we hope 2009 will be a prosperous year for all of you.
We hope to bring you guys some up to date stuff in the new year. We might also open a forum where you can discuss things, give each other tips and help each other out. Let us know if this is something that would interest you and we will get things moving straight away. I’ll post a poll.
Again, HAPPY NEW YEAR and best wishes for 2009.
Stay lucky!
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OK guys, thing’s have been really really quiet here at Netbookmag due to various reasons, we’re sure you could tell by the lack of recent post’s.
Well it’s time for us to get stuck in again and what a better way to start than cracking open an Msi Wind/4211/Akoya mini and perform some sort of step by step upgrade operation.
The memory upgrade tutorial seemed to hit the right note with readers so what so you want to do next?
The options in the polls are to upgrade the hard drive to a larger one.
Upgrade the WiFi card, perhaps you want a draft N card?
Install OS X Leopard for all you MAC lovers. (note: this will also involve upgrading the WiFi card as the stock card does not work with OS X)
Something else? Let us know what you fancy doing next to your machine and we will certainly take all requests on board.
Get voting now!
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Just a quick heads up for you lucky UK readers, although things have been very quite here at netbookmag due to annual leave we thought we give you guys the heads up about a quick bargain to be had.
The Atom powered Acer Aspire One A110AB is available at PC World for the bargain price off £199.
As always with PC World the item is available for either reserve online and collect in store or home delivery.
Grab one quick as i dont think they will stay at this price for long!
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More good news UK netbook lovers, Micro Direct have the Asus eee 901 and the Asus eee 1000H in stock right now.
Prices are as follows:
£287.88 Asus eee 901
£336.05 Asus eee 1000H
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Yahoo! Noooo not the search engine, but the Yahoo as in “Hurrah”, “Yeehaaah” and “Yessss”, why the cheers? As you will probably be aware the MSI Wind is due to be stocked on UK shelves sometime in the very near future but why would you want to wait and even more to the point, why pay more?
Remember our unboxing photo-shoot of the Advent 4211? Those that do will know that the 4211 is a MSI Wind with an Advent badge on it, not only that but it’s also a good £50 cheaper.
Soon after our photos were released the Advent 4211 went flying off the shelves and stock became like hen’s teeth to find apart from the odd chancer selling them on eBay for £50+ above the R.R.P. Good news though, PC World have them back in stock for both collect in store and home delivery. If your going to buy one then why not think about the memory upgrade while you have you wallet open. Our easy to follow Advent 4211 Memory upgrade tutorial can be found HERE.
We had a few of the 4211’s lying around our office which were promptly claimed by staff and 9 out of 10 NetbookMag.com staff say they prefer the 4211 to any other netbook they have used. The scariest thing of all is i agree with them. Go grab one before they all go again and let us know your thoughts on the machine. DIRECT LINK
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Solid state drives (SSDs) are the inevitable future of mobile computing, but a new experiment by Tom’s Hardware is extremely disappointing. It ends up that the touted power savings of SSDs over their moving-parts-laden cousins are truely nonexistent. In fact, SSDs are sucking more power than conventional hard drives. How is this possible? Tom’s Hardware thinks they know.
While moving hard drives have higher power requirements on paper, in reality, those peaks are only reached when random data is being searched out. On average, these drives have become very power efficient and rarely peak even when data is being accessed.
SSDs, on the other hand, pretty much have an “on” mode and an “off” mode. That’s it. So while you are using your hard drive, that mode is pretty much always going to be the “on” one. SSD manufacturers haven’t focused on other power saving principles at this time. And until they do, don’t expect things to get any better.
Note: the benchmarks were all completed on the same Dell laptop. A 5400 RPM hard drive would have even lower power consumption than the 7200 RPM model tested.
As for buying that new SSD for your notebook…We suggest you wait a bit longer.
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