Apple has finally launched the new Macs, and as expected, the world is going crazy over comparisons and everything. Apple’s Phil Schiller has been vocal about Microsoft’s Windows 7 not having any negative effects on Apple’s sales whatsoever. In fact, he said that it would actually drive people towards Apple with the complicated upgrading procedure. [...]

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Categories: Apple, Gadgets, Hardware, Mac, Misc, Notebooks

If your laptop is running Linux you might not be happy with the battery life you are getting. There are numerous reasons for the possible extra drain on your battery. Some of the biggest issues are: Hard drive spin-downs, interrupts, and power management. Figuring out how to make these adjustments to your kernel (or subsystems) [...]

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Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Mobile Computing, Notebooks, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software, troubleshooting

So you went ahead and purchased that System 76 laptop or you decided to finally install Linux on your laptop. You now have a Linux based laptop with a webcam. But how do you take advantage of this hardware? You want to be able to use that web cam to upload photos to facebook (or [...]

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Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Notebooks, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

System 76 is a company, founded in 2005, dedicated to the spreading of Linux and open source. They are so dedicated to this cause they sell Linux-only hardware. You might be saying to yourself “It’s been tried before and it failed.” That is certainly the case if you can remember the Wal Mart/Linux failure or [...]

Tags: laptop, Linux, Linux hardware, System 76
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Mobile Computing, Notebooks, Open Source, Operating Systems, Uncategorized, firefox

One of these glorious days the PC industry will standardize hardware. When that day comes the Linux community will rejoice because there will be no need for the many, varied applications used to configure different systems on Linux. For example: I have two laptops. One one laptop I have to use nm-applet to get wireless [...]

Tags: Debian, elive, Linux, wifi-wiz, wireless connection, wireless device, wireless management
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Laptop users love batteries that last longer. At least those laptop users who use their laptop on the road, those desktop replacement laptops are usually to big and heavy to be carried around anyway. One of the best ways to extend battery life is to reduce the cpu frequency of the laptop.
That’s usually not a [...]

Tags: battery life, cpu frequency, laptop, laptop battery, speedstep, speedswitchxp, windows-xp
Categories: Mobile Computing, Notebooks, software

Dell has released a Nvidia GPU (Graphics Processing Units) Bios Update for several Dell notebooks on their Dell Direct website. Nvidia confirmed earlier this month that some notebook GPUs were affected caused by a weak die packaging material set.
The GPU may fail due to temperature fluctuations and users may experience symptoms like random characters or [...]

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Categories: Notebooks