You hate the glossy screen. Most people who are conscious about what type of screen their notebook comes with say glossy is bad. If you were wondering why this solution is still found in computers, feel free to read on. The Problem Glossy screen is considered to be a major nuisance in most cases because it glares. Direct sunlight bounces off the surface and right into your eyes. Even if…

“Approach it with the right set of expectations and buy a netbook that provides the minimum of requirements and you’ll be having some good time” You heard me preaching the idea that you can’t run World of Warcraft on a netbook. It turns out I was wrong, and the recent updates to certain models now give an opportunity for those who would like to play WoW on a cheap portable…

Does an HDMI port matter in a netbook? It’s a limited device with a slow processor and an integrated video card, after all. Or is it? To define the distinct benefits of having a digital video output, we have to dig deep (well, deeper than most people would prefer anyway) into tech specs to see what else changes. If you want to put the picture of your netbook on the…

Let me begin with a short story that made me think. I don’t think that often, so it took quite an effort. My girlfriend is a nice person and despite the common misconception, she doesn’t talk too much. She does talk more than men, but is not really annoying to be around when she does. She usually hangs on the phone half an hour a day or so, which I…

The most important design directive for Atom processors was to make a processing unit that packs some punch but is the most energy efficient x86 unit possible. Intel has taken the netbook market seriously enough to come up with these processors, and we all know that it’s quite a costly thing to make a new chip. To make the best performance to power CPU, Intel had to come up with…

Can a netbook function as a primary computer? Most definitely but let me elaborate on that before you take your private jet to the closest computer store to get one. Why is it even an important question to begin with? Netbooks are well known to be limited in raw power and thus the list of applications they run at an acceptable speed, so why would anyone even want a netbook…

22 Inch monitors are ever so popular and I expect them to gain some traction in the following year or so. Let’s see what resolution should it be for optimal performance. In case you already have a display of this size, I suggest you refer to the manual to see what the native resolution is. It’s mostly 1366 x 768, 1680 x 1050 or 1920 x 1080. It’s important to…

The new Macbook Pros are out! Of course you knew that, but many of you are still not up to pace on the recent changes. No worries, I’ll cover the news in the CPU department, which has received the biggest overhaul since mid-2010 Macbook Pros seen the light. The first, and most important change is in the CPU family. Apple has gotten rid of the good old Core 2 Duo,…