Whether it’s your son or daughter going off to university, or perhaps a close family friend making the move, a laptop makes a great gift that will certainly prove useful in the years of study ahead.  But what should you look for when making this purchase?  Which specific elements should you consider when you head [...]

Window-based laptop computers generally go into sleep mode (standby mode in XP) when the lid is closed. The sleep mode makes sense because it helps your laptop conserve battery power. For example, while working at your office you leave for home and simply close the lid and keep it inside your bag. It then goes [...]

Like most computers, you will not get an Eee PC recovery disk with your Asus laptop. The Eee PC is an Asus in the netbook form-factor. The laptop is ultra small and ultra light. As a result, the Eee PC and other netbooks suffer from the limitation of not having an optical drive. This makes [...]

You can perform a Toshiba recovery using the Toshiba Windows recovery disks or the Toshiba Windows recovery partition located on your hard drive. This type of recovery restores the laptop back to original factory condition, meaning all programs and data that were installed after purchase will be deleted. A Toshiba Windows recovery should be done if the [...]

The Asus Eee PC is one of the most popular netbook models on the market. But like any netbook, you may have noticed it does not have an optical drive, so there are no recovery disks. You can, however, create a backup of the recovery files on a USB stick, or you can also use [...]

When you compute on the go, typing on airplanes, on the bed, on the floor with your laptop perched precariously on your legs, it’s only a matter of time before you spill a drink on your laptop’s keyboard. Not such a big deal on a desktop computer where you can simply toss the keyboard in [...]

You can test Your HP Laptop Battery if you suspect it is having issues. Laptop batteries fail after a couple of years. They can fail sooner than that or last longer, depending on the quality of the battery and your computing behavior. HP laptop batteries are no different. So how can you tell if your [...]

Who would have thought that a couple years later the netbook genre would still be around? It seemed like such a fad, but the ultra-portable mini notebook has managed to carve a niche for itself in a world where notebooks are getting smaller and other portable devices, such as the iPad, are carving their own [...]