10 cool things to do with your old laptop
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Written by Niall Magennis   
Saturday, 04 July 2009

While desktop PC sales have been steadily declining, sales of laptops have continued to increase over the past few years. However, although a PC can usually be given a new lease of life by easily upgrading its core hardware, the same is not usually true of an old laptop.

There are certain parts of a laptop that can be upgraded, if your laptop is over a certain age, but it will be difficult, and in many cases impossible, to do much with it to improve its performance. As such, you may feel it's time to consign it to the bin.

But wait, don't give up on it yet, as there are plenty of ways you can turn your old laptop into something far more useful again. The easiest way to get the most from your old system is to recycle the internal hardware, such as the memory, hard drive and, in some cases, even the processor.

However, this isn't the only thing you can do, as your trusty portable can even find a new lease of life when used alongside other devices in your home. It can bring improved usability to games consoles in your living room, or even be used to enhance other PCs that you or your family use. Whatever the case, there's no need to get rid of your old laptop just yet.

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Asus Eee PC 1008HA "Seashell" Review
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Written by Horia Puscuta   
Saturday, 04 July 2009

The Eee PC 1008HA is the first member of the burgeoning "Seashell" line, a family that already includes this machine and the to-be-released 1005HA. The 1008HA was originally unveiled in March at the CeBIT conference in Germany, but the ultra-slim laptop has just now started filtering out to the US market.

Hardware wise, there's both a lot and a little that differentiates this from the pack of other netbooks out there. As for design, it's easy to see that few alternatives can measure up, outside of maybe MSI's X-Slim X340. The 1008HE is slimmer and more beautiful in almost every way than the competition. Internally, however, you'll notice most of the same specifications you see on practically every other netbook to emerge within the past six months. Thus, we don't really anticipate its performance being "off the charts."

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New MacBook Pro
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Written by Ken Mingis   
Saturday, 04 July 2009

Apple unveiled the iPhone 3G S, talked up its new iPhone 3.0 operating system as well as its Snow Leopard desktop OS, and unleashed a slew of updated laptops. It even made two of its MacBooks into MacBook Pro models (the only MacBook left is the $999 white polycarbonate model that was updated a couple of weeks back). It was a blizzard of announcements that had Mac fans in Apple heaven.

Then there was the big news: In a very un-Apple like manner, the company dropped its prices on those laptops, the surest sign yet that, yep, it's a recession.

In the past, Apple's M.O. has been to add features, bump up processor speeds, and boost RAM and hard drives in its new hardware -- usually while holding the line on prices. This time it did all those and cut the bottom line. The top-end 17-in. MacBook Pro dropped from $2,799 to $2,499, for instance, and the entry-level 15-in. model went from $1,999 to $1,699. The price drops ranged from 6.3% to as much as 28%.

Now, that's a deflationary spiral I can appreciate -- almost as much as I appreciate the new 15-in. MacBook Pro that Apple passed along for review purposes.

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T-Mobile Will Drop Its Second Android Phone, The myTouch 3G, This August For $199
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Written by MG Siegler   
Saturday, 04 July 2009

As the first Android phone, T-Mobile’s G1 was a much welcomed entry into the smartphone market. And it may have been considered the must-have smartphone were it not for a certain device from Apple. The reason is that while the Android platform itself has a lot of possibility given its open nature, the G1 hardware simply was not great when compared to something like the iPhone. But now T-Mobile is coming back with another attempt at an Android phone in the U.S., which it is calling the myTouch 3G — and it’s much better.

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EVGA X58 SLI Classified Motherboard
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Written by TigerDirectBlog   
Saturday, 04 July 2009

The EVGA X58 3X SLI Classified is one hell of a motherboard. It is the most refined, most feature packed, and most overclockable X58 motherboard we've seen to date. The X58 Classified has a true 3X SLI PCI Express x16 configuration, utilizing NVIDIA's NF200 PCI Express bridge chip, along with an additional PCI Express slot that they claim is for dedicated PhysX. Overclocking features abound here as well, including support for dual +12V connectors to pump more power to the CPU, on-the-fly vCore alterations through a hardware control panel, higher-grade capacitors, 10-phase digital PWM, and a monstrous custom designed (passive) cooling system. These features are certainly designed for an extremely small niche market of buyers, but those who need these features are willing to pay for them.  The EVGA X58 Classified motherboard is engineered for those who demand more than just the best!

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Howto Increase Desktop Functionality with Ubuntu
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Written by Horia Puscuta   
Saturday, 04 July 2009

We will show you some of the useful productivity enhancements that Compiz has to offer, such as multiple desktops (workspaces), moving windows between desktops, expo (preview and choose from all your desktops), resizeable window previews, and scale (display and choose from all your open windows at once).

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