King’s College has a very well-designed project where students should have their own laptops daily, because they promote internet use. And so, there are some laptop computers requirements for King College, which any parent that wants to send his children there should take into account. In what follows you’ll see some laptop computers requirements for King College, so as to get an idea about the type of features your child’s laptop should embed and also about the restrictions there are on this requirements list, because they can get really harsh.

First of all, you have to purchase for your child either an Apple laptop or a Windows PC. The Apple should feature Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) operating system, a 2GHz Intel Core Duo processor running on at least 2 GB of RAM, a 100bT Network Card, a 802.11b/g/n with WPA support wireless card, a DVD-CDRW and MS Office 2004 (or greater) installed on it, as to run all the applications needed, to make disks of their projects and stay connected to the internet at all times. The other laptop should feature either the Windows XP Professional or Vista Business, Windows 7 Business or Ultimate operating system, a 2 GHz Intel processor running on at least 2 GB of RAM, the DVD-CDRW and the MS Office 2003 (or greater) software.

Secondly, all laptops should have the College’s Anti Virus software which can be purchased from the King’s Friends Shop. You should also consider buying a laptop with a extended warranty package, as are the ones with 3-year warranty, as to cover all damages that may be produced to the laptop as result of neglecting or abuse. Moreover, you should know that King’s College does not carry insurance cover for any student owned personal computer or laptop, so you should instruct your child to take care of its own. You also have to know that King’s College IT staff does not repair hardware faults, and if anything happens to your child’s laptop, you should go with it at the shop you bought it from to get it repaired.



In conclusion, you should really take into account all the requirements, as to be sure your child will now have any troubles in school. Another thing that you should know about is the fact that your child’s laptops is connected to the King’s College network and you must first go and clear it out through the King’s IT Centre, or else there are some disciplinary actions that can be taken against your child. So, you should really take into account all these requirements and buy for your child exactly the type of laptop that the

College requires or else there may appear some problems and you don’t want that. However, if the laptop features all the things mentioned in the requirements list, than you should not worry about anything, but only about offering your child all the things he needs in order to graduate from this well-known College and get the best education he can, using the ultimate technology.

So many people these days are choosing to buy a new laptop instead of buying a new desktop computer. If you wonder why they are doing this, the answer is simple. A laptop (also known as a notebook computer) has all the components of a desktop PC, and is capable of doing all the tasks that a computer does, only that it is much smaller, thinner and lighter so it is highly portable. This means that you don’t need to be at the office or at home to take care of your problems on the computer, and you can do this no matter where you are. You can use a laptop when traveling with the plane, or train, or use it in the park, or at a picnic, or at a hotel room and so on. Thanks to its included battery you can use it almost anywhere, without needing a power source.

Thanks to the wireless internet technology, now you can send mails no matter where you are, or chat with friends, or download music or pictures. The only negative aspect of a laptop is that it usually costs more than a desktop computer with the same characteristics. Considering the sizes of the monitors today (around 20 inch in diagonal) some may say that the display screen may also be a negative part for the notebooks.  But this is not such a big deal, because you can find today laptops with a 15 inch diagonal screen (or even bigger – 17, 18 and even 20 inch), which is the same as most of the old CRT monitors, that are still used by many people today. But there are also smaller laptops on the market, with a display screen smaller than 12 inch, and these are known as netbooks. So you must decide between having a larger notebook with a large display screen and a good video quality, or a smaller notebook that also has a smaller display – but which is smaller in dimensions and more portable.

If you choose the second option, then you can buy a mini notebook, with a size of the screen of 10 inch or even less. You can find some of the best mini laptops on the internet, on various sites, but if you don’t have so much money to spend, then you can choose to buy an used netbook. You can find some on auction sites such as ebay.com or amazon.com. Among the few models of 10 inch notebooks that we found on amazon.com, today we are going to discuss about the Samsung NC 10 blue notebook. The official price is 382 dollars, but here on the site you can buy it for 284 dollars and this way you save 98 dollars, which means 25 %.

This model has a 1.6 GHz Intel N 270 Atom Processor ( with 533 MHz Front Side Bus 512 KB Level 2 Cache) and 1 GB of DDR 2 RAM, that can be expanded to 2 GB. So it may not be as powerful as some other bigger laptops, but it is just great for browsing the internet and doing other simple computer activities. It comes with a SATA hard drive that has 160 GB and works at 5400 rpm, so you will have quite a lot of disc space to store all your files. It also features an 802.11 b/g  WiFi networking device for easy access to the internet and comes with an installed version of Genuine Microsoft Windows XP Home with Service Pack 3. The battery is a 6 Cell Lithium Ion 5200 mAh.

As we said the display screen has 10 inch in diagonal and a display resolution of 1024 x 600. The graphics engine is Intel GMA 950 graphics, so you may not be able to play complex video games on it, but you can still play some flash games on the internet. It has dimensions of 7.3 inch L x 10.27 inch W x 1.19 inch H and a weight of 2.8 pounds.

It also has 3 USB ports, a VGA port, headphones out, microphone in, and a 3 in 1 multi memory card slot. If you buy it from this site the total shipping weight will be 11.4 pounds.

In a previous article we discussed about the Black Friday and the special offers that are made in this day for notebooks. And today we are going to discuss about some of the best Cyber Monday laptop deals. The “Cyber Monday” is a marketing term for the Monday that is following the Black Friday. Since retailers try to sell as many products as possible in these days, they extend the special offers in the weekend following the Black Friday, and even in the day after, which has become the Cyber Monday.

This term was initially launched in 2005 by the National Retail Federation and in the same day was launched their site. So on this site you can find all the deals and offers made for this special day, in all sorts of domains. There are offers at any product you can imagine, such as: baby gear, products for beauty and health, for bed and bath, books, CD-s, DVD-s, computers, electronics, flowers, products for gardens and pets, for kitchen, jewelry, products for school, for sports, for traveling, clothes, shoes, toys and so on. There are many products sold in this day online, and even though the incomes are not as big as in the Black Friday, they still are much bigger than in a normal day. For example the biggest income made in the Black Friday was 41 Billion dollars (online) in 2007, while the biggest online income for the Cyber Monday was made also in 2007, and had 881 Million dollars.

So now let’s look at some special offers for notebooks that were made in the last years for the Cyber Monday:
-Dell Home had the Inspiron B 120 Celeron M 1.4 GHz 14 ” Widescreen Laptop with free printer for $ 385 + $ 49 shipping
-Wal Mart had the Acer Aspire 3000 notebook for $ 598 online with these technical details
-15.4 ” XGA CrystalBright screen
-1.80 GHz Mobile AMD Sempron 3000
-Windows XP Home Edition
-Memory: 512 MB (256 MB / x 2 installed), Max(2 GB)
-Hard Drive: 40 GB ATA / 100 hard disk drive
-CD-RW / DVD optical drive
- NewEgg.com had the IBM ThinkPad R 50 e (new) for $ 749 with these technical details :

-Intel Pentium M Processor 725 (1.60 GHz)
- Windows XP Professional
-Screen 15.0 ” XGA TFT
- Memory Size 256 MB + 512 MB free = 768 MB
-Hard Disk 40 GB (4200 RPM)
-Optical Drive CD – RW / DVD-ROM Combo
-Dimensions 13.1 ” W x 10.6 ” D x 1.5 ” H, Weight 6.2 lbs
-Amazon had the Apple iBook Notebook M 9846 LL/ A w/ PowerPC G 4 1.33 GHz, 12.1 in TFT, 512 MB, 40 GB, DVD / CDRW Combo, Built in AirPort Extreme, Mac OS X Tiger for $ 1000 – $ 100 rebate = $ 900 w/ free shipping

-Lenovo.com had some great “Manager’s Special” offers on ThinkPad T 43 notebooks. You could get a 1.86 GHz, 60 GB 7200 RPM HD, ATI X 300 64 MB, 14 ” SXGA, 512 MB, Multi DVD Burner for $ 1,619 – that is $ 770 off the original price!
-HP offered free shipping + free printer after rebate + $ 50 rebate on a Customizable HP Pavilion dv 8000 z Notebook (17 inch screen AMD Turion notebook)
-BestBuy.com had the Toshiba Satellite L 25- S 1192 Celeron M, 15 ” XGA, 256 MB, 40 GB, DVD – ROM/ CD-RW drive, 802.11 b / g + Optical Mouse & Notebook Case >> for just $ 549.99 at BestBuy.com
-Dell Home had the 5.5 lbs Dell Inspiron XPS M 140 Notebook w/ Pentium-M 1.73 GHz 533 MHz, 14.1 inch WXGA LCD, 512 MB DDR 2, 40 GB, free 8 x DVD +-RW burner, 10/100/1000 + 56 k, 802.11 b/ g, XP Media Center 2005, 1-Yr Warranty for $ 999 + $ 29 shipping = $ 1028 shipped.
-Amazon.com had the Sony VAIO VGN-FS742/ W Notebook w/ Pentium M 740 1.73 GHz, 15.4-inch WXGA, 512 MB, 80 GB, DVD+-RW DL, 802.11b/ g, XP Home $1299 – $100 Sony rebate – $150 Amazon rebate = $1049 w/ free shipping.

These were just some examples of some of the best Cyber Monday laptop deals from the previous years. So as you can see there are many special offers made for this special day, on many sites such as: amazon.com, bestbuy.com, tigerdirect.com and also on the official sites of the notebook producers. That’s why it is always best to watch out for the special offers for this special day (Cyber Monday) and it is recommended to search for them even a few days earlier that that day, because there might be other buyers who can get in front of you! So good luck and we hope you make the best deal possible!

As we already told you in previous articles, Best Buy is a big retail store from the United States of America and Canada which is specialized in selling consumer electronic products. In time it expanded in other countries too (such as Turkey, Puerto Rico, China, Mexico and the United Kindgdom) and it plans to expand even more in Europe.

It was founded back in 1983 and has the headquarters at Minnesota, United States of America. It has around 180,000 employees and more than 1,150 stores. So you can buy the wide variety of electronic products from one of the Best Buy stores, but you can also buy them directly from the site of the company.

As you will enter the site you will see 4 main categories : products, services, shops & deals and gifts. The category will focus on now is products, and among the wide variety of electronic products found here, there are: TV-s, Blu-ray & DVD players, iPods, MP3 players, audio systems, home theater systems, headphones, speakers, car audio, mobile phones, digital cameras, video cameras, webcams, computers, laptops, netbooks, monitors, networking devices, storage devices, GPS navigation system, satellite radios, printers, scanners, faxes, movies, music, video games, gadgets and many more others. But the products that are interesting us the most are the Best Buy laptop computers. As you enter the laptops category, you will see that they are sorted according to different criteria. First of all there are the three main categories : laptops ( a wide variety of laptops that all come with an installed version of a Microsoft operating system – Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional, Windows Vista Home Premium or Business, or Windows XP Pro), MacBooks (three styles – MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, and they all come with the Apple operating system – the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopart) and netbooks (these are small laptops, designed for portability with a display screen smaller than 12 inch and no optical drive to save size and weight…they come with Microsoft operating systems, such as: Windows 7 Starter or Home Premium, or Windows XP Home).

On the left side of the screen you will notice that the laptops are sorted through other criteria, such as: premium laptops, everyday laptops, ultra thin laptops, gaming laptops, small business laptops and netbooks. Lower you will find categories such as: operating system (Windows or Mac), brand (HP, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, Apple, Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu, MSI, Alienware, Gateway and others), price range ( less than 600 dollars, 600 – 899 dollars, 900 – 1199 dollars, etc) system RAM memory ( 1 GB, 2 GB, 3 GB, etc), screen size (14 inch and under, 15 – 16 inch, 17 inch and up) and other categories.

So now let’s discuss more about one of the laptop computers found at Best Buy and we’ll choose the brand new model HP – Pavilion Laptop / AMD Phenom™ II Processor – Brushed Aluminum, Model: dv 6-3055 dx | SKU: 9980207. This is quite a powerful laptop that comes at a price of 799.99 dollars. Its processor is a Mobile AMD Phenom ™ II quad core processor N 930 with a speed of 2.0 Ghz that will offer you a good performance. Its RAM memory is also very good, offering a default memory of 6 GB DDR 3 which can be expanded up to 8 GB. Its optical drive is a Multiformat DVD ± RW/ CD-RW drive with double-layer support, that can record up to 8.5 GB of data on a single DVD. The display screen for this HP laptop is a classic 15.6 ” LED high definition display with Bright View technology and a 1366 x 768 resolution that delivers intense clarity. Since it is a new model it also comes with a larger hard drive than we seen so far as default, and it has a 640 GB Serial ATA hard drive with a speed of 5400 rpm. It also features a built in fingerprint reader for more protection and its graphics engine is an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 graphics, with 128 MB display cache and up to 3069 MB total graphics memory.

It has a nice aluminum design, and also comes with a built in webcam with microphone for video chatting on the internet. It also has a 5 in 1 media card reader that supports Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO and xD-Picture Card formats. It has most of the ports you might need including 3 high speed USB ports, audio ports, an Ethernet port and also a HDMI port for connecting the laptop to a High Definition TV. It has both wireless and Ethernet connectivity for easy access to the internet and measures just 1.4 inch thin. Its weight is 5.5 lbs and its battery life is 4 hours and 30 minutes. It comes with the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit operating system preinstalled and also some installed programs such as: Adobe Reader, MediaSmart DVD and a 60 day trial version of Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition 2007 also included. And finally it is also Energy Star Qualified so it uses less energy and meets strict energy efficiency guidelines. Enjoy it!

So far it has just 4 customer reviews, but from them it has a perfect score of 5 out of 5 stars (5 for value for price, 5 for display, 5 for performance and 4.8 for convenience). So in case you too own this model, or decide to buy it soon, then come on the site of Best Buy and give it a rating, in order to find out that it really deserves a perfect rating of 5 stars, or not. You can also make a short review about it here on out site. Have a nice day!

Notebook comparison isn’t hard at all. Actually, it is really easy once you acquire some knowledge in the IT domain. In this review we will be comparing notebooks so as to give you an idea about the features that should be compared. For this comparison we’ll use a laptop from the Sony VAIO F Series and one laptop from the Sony VAIO E Series, to show you how different can be two laptops that belong to the same manufacturer. We will review their features and their performance, but also their prices, so you’ll be able to decide which of the two suits best your needs and requirements.

First we will talk a bit about the Sony VAIO E Series VPC-EA1Z1E/B that has a price of £770.01 with included VAT. The laptop comes with a 2.13 GHz Intel Core i3 330M processor running on 4GB of RAM, which will power you through all your applications and it will even allow you to multitask, without a problem. Moreover, you get a massive 500GB hard drive, on which you can store anything you want from simple documents to entire movies, games, music but also photos and videos. The DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM / BD-ROM will allow you to both write your own disks and to watch your DVD movies safely.

Moreover, the Mobility Radeon HD 5145 graphic card will make the movies and the games look more than awesome on the 14″ Widescreen TFT display that has a native resolution of 1600 x 900. Besides, you get the 802.11b/g/n wireless connectivity that will allow you to stay connected even when you’re on the road, traveling and thanks to the laptop’s light weight that will be no problem. The laptop also comes with a Bluetooth 2.1 EDR and an integrated webcam, to make your video-chatting a more pleasing experience. All in all, this is a great laptop computer and if you decide to buy one, than you won’t be disappointed.

On the other hand, the Sony VAIO F Series VPC-F11S1E/B comes with a more expensive price that rises up to $1.102.20 with VAT. But the price also shows the quality. Taking into account that the F Series comes after the E Series is fairly normal that the laptops to be even better than their predecessors. Anyhow, the laptop embeds a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 720QM processor that runs on 6GM which will power you through all your applications without even stressing out too much.

Also, the 500GB is more than enough for your personal stuff and the GF GT 330M graphic card will make your movie nights memorable because on the 16.4″ Widescreen TFT display with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080, the movies will look amazing. This laptop too has the wireless connectivity that will enable you to stay in touch with your family and friends and thanks to the built-in webcam you’ll also be able to video-chat. In the price are also included the Bluetooth 2.1 EDR and the Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.