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How To Choose a Laptop

D605 — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:30:00 -0600

Buying and using a laptop can be a liberating experience. You will have the ability to take your work wherever you go, take your computer to class, a coffee shop, on a trip - anywhere. You may end up spending a bit more for a laptop than you would for a desktop - after all, the individual components need to be smaller to fit in a laptop chassis - but the convenience is worth the extra cost.

How To Upgrade Your RAM

Charles404 — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:52:00 -0500

Today's operating systems are multitasking, so you can have many applications running at the same time. Some applications access a lot of memory. Nearly every computer can benefit from a RAM upgrade. If you put demands on a system that is low on RAM, it has to swap some data from memory out to your hard drive to accommodate new memory demands. This swapping, or paging as it is also called, is a very slow operation compared to reading from and writing to Random Access Memory (RAM) chips. Depending on the type of computer you have, adding RAM is usually something that a moderately experienced user can do rather easily. This article assumes you already know how to open up your desktop computer case.

How To Recycle a Computer

Staff468 — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:49:00 -0500

With technology changing as quickly as it does today, many computers from just a year or two ago have already become obsolete. When you finally decide it's time to ditch that old desktop and giant monitor for a sleek new laptop (or even just a newer, nicer desktop), you're faced with the task of discarding your old computer. While the easiest thing to do might be to put your old computer out on the curb for the garbage man, that's not environmentally friendly and most garbage services won't take computers anymore for just that reason.

When it comes to recycling your computer you have a few different options. As long as you're not in the mood to take it out into a field a field and smash it to bits, a la Office Space, you should be able to recycle your computer without a problem.