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It happens at least once in the life of every notebook computer-it slows down in performance, and just doesn’t have the get up and go that it used to. Like most people, you run your favorite antivirus program(s) to make sure that “bugs” haven’t infected your system, and you even run spyware programs to make sure that spyware isn’t overloading your system resources. To take things a step further you clear out unnecessary items from your start menu, make bios adjustments and get rid of old programs you haven’t used in a while.

After all that, your laptop computer still runs slow and you realize – it’s time for an upgrade.

Once upon a time, laptop and notebook upgrades were considered “technician only” activities because of the fact most notebook manufacturers have proprietary technologies in their systems. That is still true to some extent, but the main hardware components affecting system performance in most laptops are those that have become pretty much industry standard. These are:

1.) Hard Drive
2.) Memory
3.)Processor

These components can be easily replaced in most notebooks. The first thing to do however is to determine if the upgrade is worth the cost. Check prices online to see how much it will cost. If I pay $120 for a hard drive, $50 for memory and $150 for a new processor, it may not make sense to do all three upgrades, I may only want to choose 1 at first and then check system performance.

If my laptop wasn’t very expensive to begin with, I may want to consider just purchasing another one. If I can get a Refurbished Windows Vista HP laptop for $499.00, that may make more sense than upgrading components on an older system.

CNET.com offers an online course on how to upgrade a used notebook computer step by step. Check it out and determine which option is right for you.

What a waste of time. Such a lovely Monday evening wasted. Well, atleast it was a Cyber Monday. I had an old 40 GB hard disk that I had bought ages ago lying around in my desk for some time now. I didn’t even know if it has been working or not, or if it contains any good data. Well, when I connected it to my antiquated single core computer at home, I found that it still had a good collection of music, images and porn. Well, Not a waste of time. I just copied the contents to my new 500 GB drive that I had bought recently and decided to install Solaris on this drive to test and find out how it works on my computer. Well, solaris is not for me. I am better with Ubuntu. I should try BSD soon enough and find out how it is for me.

Well. Then I decided to Install Windows on this drive to install some games in it so that I could play when I find time and dont have to bother wine and get into trouble. Installation of Windows was quick enough. Not as quick as ubuntu, but still, was quick. No drivers come with it you see. Everything has to be installed seperately. When the computer booted the first time, did the registration and stuff, it didn’t detect display, audio and the network. I couldnt find the dirvers, and hunting for these drivers on the internt for about 3 hours, I found no luck, and found that my complete evening was wasted, and with that time I could have done so many things creatively.

Commercial software always come with a bug, and though open source comes with bugs too, people are free to fix it themselves and use it, and those fixes can be used free of charge by everyone else as well. People just go after the promotional products that they get from commercial stuff, such as free updates for some time and other stuff, or a free T shirt displaying the product’s commercial logo.

Bill steps down from software, and is moving on to monetize on philanthropy, and for other charity works starting today. He would still remain to be the major share holder of Microsoft. Atlast, Microsoft, and the World, is free, from bugs and stupid software that dominate the world. Now we could hope either for better software to be made by the new heads at the company, or wait for the downfall of the company and watch linux grow up and everyone start using it.


Why use windows anyways when you have ubuntu, and why use vb when you have c?

Good things in life come free of charge. You pay for something, and you get only bugs. Take Windows of Microsoft for example. You have two choices. Either buy it, or pirate it. You get support in neither ways, so doesnt make a big difference, and both are equally buggy. All commercial software people have gone the the windows way as linux promotes only free and open source software, and for people who need to use adobe photoshop, and have not really heard about gimp and other software, they stick to windows. They havent looked for other options and thats really why linux isnt very popular among the common people.

Ubuntu is the best linux of them all. You have a lot of packages that come with it, and the best repository that there is. Any software that you can think of, you will find in the repository. And most of the drivers of any hardware install automatically.

Ubuntu Studio is a derivative of the proper Ububtu, and it is highly optimized for Multimedia. Anything that you would need to do with multi media such as sound editing, video editing, you can find appropriate software in Ubuntu studio. Want to retain ubuntu, and have ubuntu studio software installed into it? Why not, go to your synaptic package manager, and search for ubuntu studio, and you will get all the packages induvidually, and as sets that you cna choose and install. Im more of an audio guy, so you will find that I have installed everything that is related to audio in my ubuntu pc.

It is a cool OS derivative, and it clearly proves that if its possible on windows, it is possible on linux as well, and, you will never be bothered by the anti piracy department, and you dont have to pay another dime in license fee. I would say that Essence For Better life…(UNIQUE ICON) is in ubuntu