Posts Tagged Notebook Vendors

Ideas And Recommendations

Posted by on Saturday, 15 January, 2011

Perhaps you have looked at building your very own laptop? Well, it isn’t a difficult task. The issues you’ll face range from the selection of proper components, as well as building and assembling the machine.

A great reason to build your own laptop is flexibility. When you order a notebook, you’re usually stuck with a short set of options. True, a do-it-yourself notebook currently isn’t as easy as a build-it-yourself desktop PC is. For instance, you usually have no say inside the graphics components as soon as you select the “shell,” meaning the main unit containing the motherboard and LCD display. But if you will want certain solid-state drive or an ultra-low-voltage CPU, most notebook vendors don’t offer a choice. Fortunately, because you’re building from scratch, you are able to pick anything you want.

Something you should take note of before you begin building your own personal laptop is to get a great supplier. Many computer suppliers on the market provide basic, ‘barebone’ laptop kits that you can customize or increase, so those work best places to start off with.

There are many different methods to build a laptop. You are capable of doing it yourself, or else you can have someone take action for you personally. Everything is dependant on what you need to get out of your laptop, the method that you wish to go about getting it and just how much work you need to put in it.

When you build your own laptop, you have many considerations. These considerations are features you want, size and life of the battery. Generally, after you have decided on the constituents going into a laptop, it’s quite difficult to grow or modify your build (unlike a desktop PC which includes many expansion slots, etc.).

Cruising would be to think about the ports you’ll need. Do you need Firewire, USB, sound and VGA? Work out the ports you will need, combined with three factors above. Then you can certainly determine a barebone base to your laptop.

How Will You Utilize the Laptop

If you need laptops for general office applications, you may get away with a low performance laptop. If you want to utilize the machine for video editing or gaming, you will want a top performance machine. Usually, that does mean a larger, heavier build and shorter life of the battery.

Developing a laptap can be quite rewarding. Take the time to look into your alternatives, consider the options and make your final decision on how to build a custom laptop all on your own.


OCZ Slate SSD Reviewed. Verdict: ExpressCard & USB 2.0 Make Quite a Team

Posted by on Saturday, 23 May, 2009

By Ian Chiu

We laptop owners can easily run out of storage space since most 2.5″ drives are still relatively small in capacity. Other than paying notebook vendors for over-priced hard drives to keep our warranty and then spending a beautiful weekend afternoon on drive cloning, there is a simpler and time-saving way to expand storage without breaking the bank. This is where OCZ Slate SSD comes in. The USB-based Slate is basically like any other flash drives except it is housed in an ExpressCard. The design allows the storage card to fit snugly inside the ExpressCard slot without the risk of it breaking off. On the opposite side of the ExpressCard connector is a mini USB 2.0 port which can be used for hooking up with desktop PCs or older laptops.

The Slate performance is decent with read speed topping at 30MB/s and write speed hovering between 15 and 17MB/s. The card doesn’t have a native PCI Express interface so USB 2.0 will always remain the bandwidth bottleneck for this product. Everything USB discovered the Slate to be particularly useful for storing music, video & photos as you can easily relocate them to the card and Slate’s speeds can easily handle even multiple 1080p HD playback. Overall, if you’ve an unused ExpressCard slot on your notebook, and don’t plan on getting a 3G wireless modem card, the Slate is something you should check out as an effortless storage option.

[OCZ Slate SSD ExpressCard Review @ Everything USB]