It is something about Windows 7 that would consume too much and fast battery laptops and mini-laptops, like its predecessor Windows Vista. Rumor or not, it seems that people at Microsoft have received enough complaints on this issue, so someone have put on a investigation. It seems that Windows 7 to the battery problems are not limited to excessive consumption of batteries. Some users have complained that because the operating system, battery life decreased by 30 minutes to two hours in a very short time (one user even said that the battery life decreased from 45 minutes to 15 minutes two weeks). Moreover, some users reported that after installing OS's, received a series of error messages that indicate the need to change laptop battery (although it had gone well before installation). Other issues concern the fact that no longer fully charged battery or that is consumed even in standby mode.

His fault or not Windows 7, Microsoft promises it will investigate the matter and has already put to work together with partners and hardware manufacturers laptops. Statements made before, it may be a BIOS problem, because Windows 7 uses data from the BIOS to determine if the battery should be changed. Microsoft suspects that BIOS updates are sent incorrectly interpreted as errors of Windows. Battery problems were noted during testing of Windows 7 Beta, especially by users of mini laptops. But since the launch of the operating system in October last year, complaints about the battery occurred. So far have sold 60 million licenses of Windows 7, but it is unknown percentage of users affected by this problem. Microsoft promises that it will announce as soon as you find solutions.



A battery for 20 years, sounds good, right? Lasts 20 years, ie about 10.000 recharging. About these expectations for the new lithium-ion battery developed by Japanese company Eamex. New technology will be applied yet large batteries, which are used in hybrid vehicles / electric cars, but the technological innovation is expanding very quickly and usually in other areas, so it is conceivable to occur soon and like laptop batteries. Currently the company promises that the market will get a battery of 10.000 W per kilogram by the end of 2010. This will be yet for electric cars and scooters.

What's the trick? The Japanese have started from the idea that in a normal battery recharging after successive deterioration of tin occurs. So I have decided to stabilize the electrodes to prevent this phenomenon. Therefore the new battery contains a negative electrode covered with a layer of bitumen coated tin. The electrode in question accumulated lithium ions come from the positive electrode made of silicon and tin. The new pitch and tin alloy electrodes and maintain stable structure of tin.



However, the main idea is that it will withstand 10 times longer than ordinary batteries today, including comparison with those of laptops. It is estimated that an ordinary notebook battery supports about 300 recharge cycles, while the MacBook or MacBook Pro battery lasts about 1000 recharge cycles over 5 years of constant use (says Apple).

Lenovo is a Chinese IT company and world number four in the production of PCs (May 2008). The company was founded in 1984 in Beijing with an initial investment of $ 25,000. Lenovo acquired the PC division of IBM in 2005 against payment of USD 1.25 billion, and in 2007 tried unsuccessfully to take over the European company Packard Bell. The company has completed in the fourth quarter of 2007 sale of mobile phone that went into loss, the amount of 65 million USD. Lenovo Smartbook's show the whole world or, in the CES in Las Vegas, this smartbook being a bridge between mobile phones and netbooks. For starters I would like to explain about What does a smartbook. A smartbook is a mobile device, a combination of a smartphone (phones that offer features similar to those of a computer) and a laptop.

In a completely new category, backed by Lenovo's Smartbook Qualcomm Snapdragon processor will use a user interface created especially for this smartbook, to work mainly Widgets them online, contrary to standard operating systems like Windows 7. The new laptop, called Smartbook, will cost about $ 499 when it will launch in America in the coming months, although a representative of Lenovo said it hoped to sign soon an agreement with AT & T can provide the product at a subsidized price.



The technical details for includes the 10.1 inch diagonal screen, SD card reader and microSD. Another representative said that they are in talks with Google for the device to work from home with the new operating system Chrome. Even if limited in size Skylight Lenovo has a screen that measures 10 inches that supports playback of high-definition format. Moreover, Lenovo's smartbook equipped with an interface that user can customize as you like. The model has a high connectivity and Wi-Fi and 3G offers direct access to a range of social networks like Facebook or MySpace, but also services like YouTube or Gmail. Among smartbook's technical specifications include internal memory and 20 GB or battery which can stand up to ten hours of use. Lenovo and AT & T May make it available on a series of web widgets including include CinemaNow and Amazon MP3, or Roxio.

Lenovo Skylight will be available on the American market in spring 2010, namely in April. Those interested will be able to buy at about $ 500. By the end of the year, Lenovo's Skylight smartbook will be launched in China and then Europe. Those interested can choose from two color variants of the device, Red (Red Earth) and blue (Blue Lotus).



Lenovo Smartbook use Android witch is a software platform and operating system for mobile devices based on Linux kernel, originally developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. Android enables developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device through the Google-developed Java libraries. Applications written in C can be compiled into ARM machine code and executed, but the development model is not officially supported by Google.

Launch Android platform on 5 November 2007 was announced by founding the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 48 companies of hardware, software and telecommunications, dedicated development of open standards for mobile devices. Google has released most of the Android code under Apache license, a license-free software and open source.

At this year's edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest electronics fair in the world, 3D TVs and e-books were making the law, but the attention was enjoyed by the laptops. Over 2,500 exhibitors will present approx 20,000 products equipped with the latest maters of technologies. As was the norm, this deal could not miss any hand held manufacturers.

They announced their intention to launch new models of laptops and mini laptops, some more interesting than others. Some of these are: the fiery gamers will launch Touch Battalion CZ-10 - first gaming laptop with multi-touch screen, using the multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7, Sony announced the new series of Vaio notebooks, including Sony Vaio Eco Edition W, HP will launch the new Pavilion dv6-2157sb - laptop equipped with the new Intel Core i3 and HP TouchSmart tm2 - in a convertible tablet PC mini laptop, Lenovo IdeaPad U1 comes with the new Hybrid - 2-in-one gadget  and with the new ThinkPad laptops Edge, Asus introduced the Eee PC 1008P - a mini laptop in the design of Karim Rashid, and launched at CES 2010 laptop list goes on.


Manufacturers of laptops and netbooks presented last week at CES their next generation products.

The guys from Asus have been feeling NX90Jq model. This laptop was created with the Danes from Bang & Olufsen and not the kind of laptop you get it for you, but rather one that you hold in your living room as a desktop. NX90Jq has a screen of 18.4 inches (47 cm) with a resolution of 1.920x1.080 pixels and a video card Nividia Geforce GT335M. Inside lies an Intel Core i7, a 1.2 TB hard drive and 4 GB of RAM, which can be extended up to 12 GB. Not missing any Blu-Ray or USB 3.0 connection. The price of the laptop was not specified.

Fujistsu MH380. Fujistsu brought at CES 2010 The LIFEBOOK MH380. This is a netbook with impressive graphics performance and can play HD movies (720p). Netbook is an Atom N450 CPU 1.6 GHz, the 10.1 inch display (1366 x 768 pixels), a 250 GB hard drive and 1 GB of RAM. It weighs around 1.3 kg and has a battery with a range of about 7 hours. Netbook comes with Windows 7 Starter, and other features include Wi-Fi, and webcams Bluetoth. MH380 will be sold at a price of 449 dollars.



Lenovo Skylight is the first smartbook (small notebook, which acts as a smartphone, is always open and connected to the Internet via 3G networks) of Chinese from Lenovo. It has a Snapdragon processor 1 GHz, a 10.1 inch screen (1280x720 pixels), a 20 GB storage space, plus slot for other memory cards. The operating system is adapted from Linux and has a number of widgets for different online services. The battery has a range of ten hours. Lenovo Skylight A model will cost $ 500.

Selling new Alienware M11x - the smallest alien to date will start on March 1, 2010, is one of the most powerful laptops manufactured by Dell. Starting price will go around the amount of $ 800 USD, but if the upgrades will be possible later. Alienware M11x includes an Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo SU4100 or SU7300, both with two cores and operating at a speed of 1.3 GHz. Memory system is sufficient, which is equipped with 8 GB of DDR3 memory. Collection of HD movies will be a hit, having a laptop with a hard drive of 500 GB or 256 GB each SSD technology. The vital importance of the alien from Dell is NVIDIA GeForce 335M GT with 1GB of integrated memory. Together with a 11.6 inch WLED display with operating system Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate, Alienware M11x is certainly an indispensable element of a gamer owner of "social capital" and eager as computer games. The remaining parts available: 1.3 MP webcam, Bluetooth 2.1 (optional) Mobile Broadband with integrated GPS and optional external optical drive.

Alienware m3450 Senta can work for 3 and a half hours. It is a good time, but not very good, if we check that other laptops, like Dell, can run up to 5 hours. If you want to opt for wireless Bluetooth, Core Duo 2.16 GHz, and a 7200 RPM drive with a capacity of 100 GB, expect at least a steep price, considering that more pay and eccentric design, brand registered to Alienware. The m3450 includes a 14.1-inch widescreen playback functions ClearView, signed Intel graphics capabilities, integrated Wi-Fi connectivity and Ethernet, webcam, also integrated, 3 USB 2.0 ports, a 4-pin IEEE 1394a port and a reader card 4-in-1.



Since Area 51 m5550 is a more advanced version of the older m5500 model shows a 15.4-inch LCD screen with resolution optional 1280 x 768 pixels or 1920 x 1200 pixels, but standard functions DVI and S-video. Also, you have to choose between Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 with 256MB video memory or the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 with 128MB video memory. Moreover, m5550s version includes a card reader's 4-in-1, a 7200 RPM hard drive 100 GB, 2 GB of RAM, but also features integrated Wi-Fi and Ethernet, three USB 2.0 ports, another port for the 4-pin IEEE 1394a and possibilities for optional wireless Bluetooth connection.



The high-end, in turn, Area 51 m5750, the m5700 is a better one, and if you know the older version will not be a surprise that presents signed ATI Mobility Radeon graphics, user can choose between versions of X1400 and X1800 . The user will have to choose between video memory and 128 MB or 256 MB. Moreover, m5750 laptop has a 17 inch LCD screen that offers a resolution previously chosen by the 'owner' of 1440 x 900 pixels or 1920 x 1200 pixels, output for DVI and S-video, single or dual hard drive setup, up to 2 GB of RAM, cards reader 4-in-1 functions integrated Wi-Fi and Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, a connector 4-pin IEE 1394 and an optional Bluetooth wireless.

Portable computers are becoming popular even though we are in a time of economic crisis. In conclusion, cheap laptops are in great demand. I still try to analyze the two categories of devices that can be considered cheap laptops: netbooks and notebooks sites. Price is the most important criterion by which I will guide you, but you have to see unless you have to take into other issues. Cheap laptops at prices below $ 500.

When Asus launched the netbook first 7 ", used a slower Celeron processor with 900 MHz. Later, Intel has created for this emerging segment model of the atom and the rest is history. Netbooks sales have increased dramatically, aid and the global economic crisis, but the lack of public information. When ordinary people without much knowledge of IT, into a shopping center that sells laptops and sees low prices of Eee PCs and other similar portable, is almost convinced. not to mention the fact that many ladies and the ladies are attracted to the small size of the netbook-sized.



Unfortunately, too few are familiar with the limitations of such an ultra-portable. A frequent question that I encounter is related to the size of a netbook. It does not cost less because it is smaller, but because it is a cheap processor, low and commensurate performance. An Intel Atom costs $ 44 out of the factory, while one Core 2 Duo performance comes to average $ 200-300.

Windows Vista Netbook sites are a good choice. The screen can be replaced with one large at home, and those who do not support a tiny keyboard and touchpad can connect a kit wireles. Unfortunately, I can change processor is doing great by yourself with browsing and editing documents, but needs serious help from the video card to play HD movies. The games can not really talk, even if we take into account platform ion Nvidia GeForce 9400M.



Cheap laptops 15.4 "or 15.6" are starting price of $ 200 and compete in this chapter with several netbooks. If portability is a priority, a standard laptop would be more useful than a netbook. Larger screen and resolution of 1280x800 or newer, 1366x768 will say the word to display documents or Web pages. The keyboard will be easier to use and you'll notice it immediately if you have previously tested a 8.9 netbook.

Not one to dwell too much on the utility of the Optical. You'll need it to reinstall your operating system when you want to run an older game. The double the weight of a standard laptop to a netbook, the difference in performance may be very high. It depends very much on laptop processor. Avoid patterns or Celeron Dual Core T1000 and T2000 series. In principle, with the higher the identification number of the processor, performance is higher. As I said on other occasions, also avoid platform based on AMD systems. They will almost always be cheaper than the Intel processor. There are exceptions. An AMD Turion 64 X2 will give a decent performance.

The autonomy of a standard laptop is usually higher than a netbook, 6 cell battery can give you 5 hours of power, but the components consume a lot. A three-hour autonomy is a realistic perspective. 15.4 laptop bag will be heavier, but after a year you will not complain that the new versions of common applications not running on XP. Windows 7 it will not do any miracles on a netbook.