Dell has brought the user friendly touch screen capability into the laptop market with the introduction of Dell Studio 17” series laptops. Featuring the latest Intel Core processors, the laptop has four configurations to choose from with varying processor, main memory, hard disk capacity etc. and costing between £499 and £699 (inc. VAT) to suit wide consumer tastes and pockets. The full High Definition display brings videos to life with amazing clarity. The audio is excellent with JBL sound card and optional SRS Premium sound audio.

Apple released its latest gadget the iPad last month after much speculation and expectation. It’s NOT a cheap netbook. You might have already bought one, seen a demo, or at least heard about it. While there are many commendable features in iPad that makes iPhone look obsolete it is yet to catch up with cheap netbooks, features wise.

The use of Apple’s very own A4 processor with 1 GHz CPU gives iPad enough power to watch videos without flicker while at the same time it is stingy on power consumption. The iPad is highly portable with its thin, light body and trendy looks. The display screen is brighter than that of an iPhone. There are 2 configurations available with iPad for browsing the web / making calls: only Wi-fi and both Wi-fi and GSM.

Acer, the Taiwanese computer maker increased its worldwide sales in 2009 by 29% to displace Dell as the second largest PC maker in the world. According to Gartner’s estimates, Acer had a worldwide market share of 13.5% behind HP’s 19.8% even though the growth rate of Acer in 2009 was much faster (29%) than HP (11%) in worldwide PC shipments. Dell the 3rd largest PC maker had a negative growth of 9% in 2009. According to Gartner Acer established itself as the leader of the sub-$500 consumer mobile PC segment in key regions and its improved branding strategies also helped it to work better with channel partners.

Why Online Backup?

Have you ever suffered from losing important documents, digital photos, videos etc due to hard disk crash of your cheap laptop? And then tried to salvage whatever you can using disk recovery programs? Most computer users would have faced such a situation some time or the other in their lives. According to an estimate about 140,000 hard disk crashes occur in US alone every week and about 10% of all hard drives fail each year all over the world.

With the advent of internet users have another problem to contend with: virus attacks that can virtually destroy entire files in the hard disk. A solution to these types of loss of data and also due to thefts and natural disasters is online backup. With communication costs coming down by the day, it is cheaper and convenient to save your data periodically using online backup service providers. They provide cheap, safe and secure remote location for your data that can be accessed from your cheap laptop anywhere wherever there is an internet connection. You only need to pay as low as one cent per megabyte per month for the first gigabyte and 0.3 cents in excess of 1GB or $5 per month for unlimited storage for the online backup facility!

Are you bored with the staid, traditional look of your laptop? Do you wish that it had a cool jazzy look that reflects your personality? You no longer have to be limited to the traditional monotonous colours of your laptops. Dell and other manufacturers offer laptop skins created by specialist graphic designers that give them unique colourful looks that blend with the surroundings.

Dell offers laptop skins in 3 different categories: 5 skins under colours, 8 under classics, 3 under product red totalling 16 in all. Here we review 10 of the best Dell laptop skins.

Google intends revolutionize the PC operating system market with the proposed Chrome OS slated for release in late 2010. Its perfect for netbooks and cheap small laptops. It is going to be a paradigm shift from the existing operating system which is loaded on to your PC first and boots the machine every time you switch it on. Google Chrome OS is going to be browser centric i.e. the operating system itself is going to web based and the user will require special hardware, a Chrome OS device which will act as complimentary to main machine. All applications are going to be web applications and they will be stored online with local memory being used as a cache.

Here are ten killer reasons why you would want to switch to Google Chrome OS as and when it is released:

The Acer One 531 is a lightweight netbook ideal for computing on the move. Weighing under 2.2 lbs and dimensions of just 9.8 x 6.7 x 1.1″, this compact netbook features Intel Atom N270 processor and Windows 7 Starter Edition.
The HP Mini 110 pink netbook is in direct competition with the Acer One netbook described above in terms of features and price. Weighing 2.6 lbs and size of 10.3 x 6.6 x 1.2″, the netbook is powered by Intel Atom N270 (1.6GHz) processor and Windows 7 Starter Edition.

Though Linux was a late starter as far as netbooks market is concerned, it is slowly gaining market share and is set to displace Windows from the perch in 4 years’ time. According to Jeff Orr, Senior Analyst with ABI, (Allied Business Intelligence, Inc.) Linux will drive 32% of netbooks sales this year. At the rate at which Linux is increasing its share, by 2013 it will become #1 in netbooks market.

Here are some cheap laptop jokes. They may not be big, or particuarly funny, but we’ve tried to make cheap laptop jokes that will make you smile. I think at least two of them are funny, so you better laugh.

Apple is expected to launch Apple tablet which is essentially a large iPhone or ipod touch in time for this Christmas season. The specifications are still sketchy – the screen size may measure up to 10″ diagonally with wireless connectivity and ability to read books, download media through iTunes etc.