Friday, 19 September 2008

Laptop House-Keeping

Top tip from the BT Clean Team - take care of your laptop and it will take care of you.
As you can see following our post about the availability of laptops online there are a lot of reports that laptops aren't being maintained and kept clean.

Five reports here suggest that general housekeeping is straight forward and is easy to do:-
There was a lot of support for this how to clean a laptop video
with all these bloggers agreeing that it is helpful to see how the chap in the video unplugs various lead and effortlessly stops the fans running in order to clean his laptop.
Others however are simply happy to let dust and dirt accumulate and the oly cleaning they expect to complete is a quick once over with a damp cloth.
Whichever method you think you preferewe urge you to be open minded and give all these a go. Rememeber a laptop is only as clean as you make it.

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

Laptops and Wifi - Freedom


The selection of a new laptop proves to be tricky for most people especially students who need to consider getting the best value for money. Deciding on what specifications are needed is difficult - few students know what will be required of them during their course and decisions about the laptop they choose tends to be influenced by the anticipated days of leisure - watching dvds and gaming.

Invitations were sent out to the blogosphere and the following responses help narrow the choice - many suggestions were made from personal experience.

St John Strobel gave this laptop review and Sindrone offered suggestions where to get best prices using price comparison sites. BollyWood Celebrity agreed that using price comparison to buy a new laptop was a smart move and gave an example of how much saving there was between different online shops.

Study a buying guide like this "How to Choose a Laptop" is worthwhile offering features to look for such as which operating system suits what needs and encourages you to check if it is Wifi ready. Don't be distracted bu features you don't need is the clear message - better to have more hard drive and RAM than a laptop stuffed with useless software you'll never use.