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Dell is Ripping Off its Notebook Customers | PC Fastlane

By sleepysentry 304 days ago from http://www.pcfastlane.com

After this guy's Dell AC adapter and battery died, he went to Dell's website to look for a replacement. What did he find? Dell has been selling faulty replacements for faulty products for quite some time. It seems as though Dell hasn't been looking out for the well-being of its customers yet again. Not only are its replaceme

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The Complaints Notebook « The Consumer Etiquette Guide

By janihelle 380 days ago from http://consumers.wordpress.com

Ever wonder what the cashiers at supermarkets do when they have nothing to do at the checkout counter? When they can’t leave their post? Twiddle their thumbs? Play Sudoku? Doodle? Take a nap?

Pretty much all of the above apply, except for the taking a nap, cuz that would be a bad idea. Oh the countless times I’ve longed to take a nap at wo

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Getting the Most Out of Your Battery in Ubuntu

By j2fi 362 days ago from http://www.j2fi.net

Ubuntu’s battery life has been a bone of contention with me ever since making the switch from Windows a while ago, and it seemed that there was no real fix for this. But perhaps there is.

My trusty HP zt3000 has been able to consistently give me an hour and a half when running under any flavour of Windows XP, but never more than

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Rumor: Ultralight Lenovo X300 Series Thinkpad | Wikigiz

By pwong 318 days ago from http://wikigiz.com

Who’s the king of Ultra portable Laptop in the market? Well, Apple’s MacBook Air seems to lead by a nose in the recent MacWorld. However, according to Gizmodo, Lenovo will unveil their Ultralight Laptop X300 Thinkpad weights about 2.5 Lbs. The release date is unknown but we have the specs. It’s got a 13.3-inch LED backlit 1440X900 screen, and

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Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop with Blu-ray for low price of $880

By pwong 249 days ago from http://wikigiz.com

Dell is commemorating Blu-ray’s victory by offering a Blu-ray playback drive in its super low price, 15.4 inch laptop, the Inspiron 1525. Starting at $880, you can watch BD movies on its screen (at 720p resolution) or send the video to HDTVs via HDMI. You will be seeing more Blu-ray read (not read-write) desktops and laptops in

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Where Are The Hybrid Hard Drives?

By j2fi 376 days ago from http://www.j2fi.net

Seagate told us months ago about their Momentus 5400 PSD hybrid notebook hard drives. These little units come in 80, 120 and 160 Gig capacities and are equipped with a piddly 256 MB of flash for the most commonly accessed OS files. These are a God-send for anyone that wants to extend their battery life, but where can we find them?

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10 Reasons to not buy Hewlett Packard

By anawaz 286 days ago from http://www.asifism.com

This is an article that gives a breakdown of several of the problems with HP Customer Service that are so irritating and frustrating that I suggest nobody buy it. I've owned several HP laptops, and am now on my final. My last laptop simply gave up five months after I purchased it and it took me well over a month to get a rep

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