When you think about buying a new laptop, WalMart may not be the first vendor that springs to mind — but perhaps it should be.
WalMart has great prices on laptops from vendors like Everex, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, and HP.
You may find the best deal by visiting your local WalMart instead of going online. WalMart’s web site offers a basic Everex NC1501 laptop for $398. My local Wal-Mart is selling a much more well equipped Acer for the same price.
Acer is a better brand than Everex. Toshiba, Dell, Sony, and HP are all premium brands which you can buy for very good prices at your local WalMart store.
For $648, you can purchase a Toshiba Satellite with a 15.4″ WXGA widescreen display, a 1.8 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor, 1 GB RAM, and an 80 GB hard drive. That’s quite a reasonable machine!
In addition to comparing brands when buying a cheap laptop, you will also want to compare:
- Display size
- Display resolution
- CPU
- RAM (How much? How many available DIMM slots?)
- Storage (How much? How fast?)
- DVD drives (Read-Only or Read-Write?)
- Wireless (Built-in or add-on?)
When looking for the best deal, it pays to do your research and shop around. My recommendation is that you add WalMart to the list of places you look for your next laptop.
Thursday, October 4th, 2007 | Posted in Apple | No Comments »
As time passes by, more and more users reported that Apple’s new iMacs suffer from a nasty bug that locks everything, making the system unusable, until the owner reboots it.
Quoting the customers, the bug doesn’t actually stop and freeze the system. Everything is functional, but the computer is impossible to control by the user.
Here are two reports of this kind.
Whatever was going on at the time continues, so if you were listening to music it continues to play. The mouse pointer moves but you cannot select anything. Tabbing through apps doesn’t work.
Those reports didn’t went unnoticed to Apple. They are aware of the issue, but they haven’t found a permanent fix just yet. Since August when the iMacs launched, there were two software updates (1.0 and 1.1) that contained important updates regarding video drivers, but none of them actually had a fix for this freezing issue.
We’re waiting for more information as soon as possible.
Thursday, October 4th, 2007 | Posted in Linux | No Comments »
Between January 17 and January 19, the KDE community will hold a releasing event for KDE 4.0 inside the Google HQ (Mountain View, CA). This event’s main purpose is meant to spread the word about the newest KDE release and its impact on the Free Desktop applications.
This looks like an informative and productive event altogether, therefore the schedule reflects that. The event will contain many interesting presentations related to technical and non-technical areas of interest. Over 200 members from the IT business and mass-media will attend and it will all end with a course with many members of the North-American KDE community.
Of course, all of the major keynotes will be available to watch live over the Internet.
The hopes for this event are to strengthen the KDE community from the United States and increase its popularity.
