How to upgrade your laptop memory / RAM - video

Sometimes you don't really have to change your old laptop with a new one. Of course if you have enough budget for a new laptop, it's not a problem as long as money is not a problem. One of the solution for making an old laptop run better or faster is to upgrade it. If you want to upgrade your laptop. You may consider upgrading the RAM or memory first. Upgrading memory can speed up your laptop. But do we need a technician to do this? Or can we do it by ourselves? It's not really a difficult thing. But you need to do it carefully, too. Here's a video from CNET that helps you how to upgrade your laptop memory.

Seven things you need to do after buying a Netbook

Netbook has become something trendy in this modern world. To most people netbooks such as Eee PC is quite great at portability. And also the price is getting down time to time. Besides its portability, people also consider a netbook for the ease of surfing the internet. But after having a netbook you should also do the following things.
1. Create/backup the recovery disc of the netbook you just buy.
2. Give it a keyboard protector to prevent dust sticking on the keyboard.
3. Buy a portable netbook fan to keep your netbook cool.
4. Buy a small waterproof bag to protect it from rain if you often travel outside.
5. Keep the warranty card to make it easier to claim when something happens.
6. Install antivirus and anti-spyware immediately, because this is necessary when you surf the net
7. Buy the laptop skin to protect the netbook from scratch.
Hope these are useful.

Disassemble and Assemble Acer Laptop

How to fix and maintenance your laptop? It's not an easy thing compared to desktop PC. Laptop construction is more complex than desktop PC. They have almost the same hardware parts, but the main difference lies on the size and maybe the shape.

These are two videos I found at Youtube on how to disassemble and assemble Acer Laptop. The videos take about almost 10 minutes but it does tells you how to do the disassembling and assembling. Not so easy to understand but at least it gives you a brief understand. When you do it yourself, it's better you take photos of all the process or take the video during disassembling. This is because when you want to assemble it back, you have already had the pre-recorded video that guide you. Ok, let's watch how he does it with the Acer laptop.

Disassembling Laptop



Assembling Laptop - Part 1



Assembling Laptop - Part 2

Laptop battery dead

How to solve laptop battery dead problem? The best way to solve it is of course have the battery changed at the service centre. But this usually cost a lot of money. It may cost more than US $100. So, what to do? While I was browsing the internet, I opened Youtube website. And I found a video on how to hack the laptop battery. This video tells you what you need to know before hacking the battery and what to do about it. It's a very short video, but it tells about technical stuff about changing the battery by yourself. So it's a DIY laptop hacking video. Be careful when doing it.

How to save your laptop battery consumption

Notebooks or netbooks use a lot of power and they can't be use for very long time by depending only to the batteries.

Most of them last for about 2 to 3 hours depending on the type of the batteries.

If you want to let your laptop longer while using the battery only, you should avoid unnecessary battery usage which means not to use any device that take up your battery when you don't really need it.

Your battery power is usually used when you have a USB powered device plugged in your laptop. If you don't need a mouse, don't plug it in your laptop. This is also the same to other devices such as flash disk, card reader, external keyboard, portable printer, digital camera, etc. Anyway, just avoid unnecessary plugging of device.

Other settings that you can do to save your battery consumption is by turning off your wireless connection and bluetooth connection. Then you can also use the power settings in Control Panel to adjust the sleep time of your laptop PC. Okay, do the adjustment as you see fit and see how long you can use your laptop with only the battery.

Asus Eee PC has no CD-ROM drive

Asus Eee PC doesn't come with a CD ROM drive. So, when you need to install a program you need an external CD/DVD ROM drive. When you can't install a program using your netbook like Asus Eee PC, you can of course buy the external drive. But you have to spend quite a lot of money for this. The drive usually cost around $100, You'd better buy a laptop with the drive along.

But there's a way where you don't have to spend too much. Using a connector and a used computer CD ROM drive can solve it. The connector usually costs around $10 or a bit more. Then you can save almost $90. With the connector, you can also install an ATA or SATA drive easily.

Laptop Alarm

Want to install a laptop alarm on your computer? Well, here's a nice and small program that provide basic security for your laptop. There are four protections for your laptop:

1. Loss of AC Power
2. Shutdown / Log off
3. Unplug of USB Mouse
4. Mouse movement

Really cool, right? When a mouse is place on a table and it's move, the program gives out a loud sound (like a static screen saver with alarm).

Stealing a laptop, course also need to shutdown, right? Maybe yes, maybe no. But when someone shuts down your laptop, Laptop Alarm will gives out the loud sound, too. Give it a try. This program also comes with password to protect from unauthorized access. Click here to download.