Showing posts with label laptop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laptop. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

End Touchpad Troubles on Your Laptop With an External Mouse



a mark on your laptop or netbook slowing down your work? Certainly not for me! If the laptop is your main computer, you May have a hard time switching from the mouse on the main machine for a small touchpad on your laptop.

I know that many people find difficult to use trackpads. They are prone to accidental touches that will send your mouse cursor over the screen. This can be a huge pain when doing precision work, such as copying and pasting large parts of the text or graphic design work.

the easiest way to fix this is simply plug an external mouse. Many people find external mice easier to use, comfortable and precise.

You have two options, corded or cordless. Cable mice are cheap and easy to buy. Almost everyone has an extra mouse okolo.nedostatak laying the cable. It is usually too long to use on a laptop and often gets tangled or caught on objects.

wireless mice, on the other hand are free from any strings and very compact. Many of them have a dongle that stores right on the mouse when not in use. Just outside the dongle, plug it into your USB port and you're ready otići.Veliki downside is that wireless mice is that they require batteries. Newer versions require only the AA fire, but it can be a real hassle when the battery dies right in the middle for an important job. Carrying an extra battery or with rechargeable ones can help with this issue.

One tip that really helped me when using an external mouse on my netbook to go to mouse settings and turn on the option to disable the trackpad when external mouse is plugged in. This will eliminate accidental dotaknetrackpad.Jednostavan, but very useful feature!

external mouse plugged into your notebook can really make a difference in usability. Stop struggling with the touchpad and give it a try. I bet you will not be able to come back!

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Intel Atom N270 - How Fast is It?



Most netbooks come with Intel Atom processors, mainly because they are low power, portability-oriented process and the price is reasonable for the performance they give. If you want to get a mini laptop today, chances are you're getting a N270 with atoms, or a later spin-off the N450, so it makes sense to shed light on what these processors are capable of.

If you've ever tried netbook you agree with me that they are not the fastest computer around. They are not even a little faster when it comes to comparison with full-sized notebooks, but at 10, "the league they do pretty well. For the energy they use their computing capabilities are wonderful, in fact, die size of only 26 mm2, and Intel has made ​​sure it did not seem netbook processor aimed at the lower end of the expensive category.

The basic design idea was to make a processor that uses as little electricity as possible and to achieve that threw out everything that did not provide a 1% or more speed by 1% or less energy. To get rid of them than most floating-point calculations of parts, but they were able to keep Hyper-Threading.

What this means in plain English is that scientific applications, where the arbitrary precision numbers are involved, will be very slow, unfortunately, a lot of video and audio coding falls into this category as well. You will not be able to comfortably run Photoshop and 3D design applications come to mind as well. What you can do is to consume media content, though. Hyper Threading and other techniques make multi-task fairly painless, you will not notice the slow work when running the browser with multiple tabs. You can use MSN Live, Skype, your e-mail client and browser, without giving up anything on the user experience.

N270 is about half as powerful as a 3000 + Sempron processor, which is basically an Intel Celeron category, but that's okay, because while Atom has a 2.5W TDP, Mobile Sempron or Celeron for that matter, has a nominal power of 25 watts. It seems longer battery life as possible along with a refrigerator case and quieter operation.

There are better processors on the market today, but the N270 is still a popular choice in low-end segment of mini-notebooks. If you see one agrees with the N450, buying almost the same thing, only difference is that the graphics chip, the memory controller and peripheral controllers built into the processor. This makes the chip bigger and eat more battery, but as a whole, the computer uses less power for the performance of the N270.