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  • Daylight saving change causes IT chaos

    The NSW government's decision to delay the daylight saving time change by a week has caused widespread IT chaos, with Telstra, the RTA, Qantas, and radio station 2GB all reporting problems.

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    Seagate Technology, the industry's largest producer of hard drives, has finally started shipping its first batch of hybrid hard drives for notebook PCs.

  • AMD's new Puma stalking Intel's Centrino

    Advanced Micro Devices is coming out with its own Centrino. The US-based chipmaker is prepping an energy-efficient notebook chip, code-named Griffin, as well as a platform based around Griffin called Puma, (similar to Intel's Centrino) that will likely allow AMD to better compete in the rapidly growing notebook market.

  • HP tweaked Vista over power concerns

    Some of Microsoft's most important customers aren't happy with the battery life offered by notebooks running Windows Vista.

  • Flash drives to begin replacing HDD within 2 years?

    Flash drives, which unlike traditional hard drives do not have any moving parts, will be common in notebooks bought during 2009 and account for 15 percent of that market by 2011.

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    Crikey, Calvin, what were you thinking?

    There are lots of fiddly little rules surrounding backup and disaster recovery, but some of them are, to be frank, blindingly obvious. At the top of my personal list would be this one: don't check your notebook PC as hold luggage when you get on a plane.

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  • The 10 most important things to teach your users

    Your users don't need an encyclopedic knowledge of how their computers work or how your network is configured -- but they may need a little technical enlightenment here and there. This list includes some of the basics that will help them (and you) work more effectively.

  • Intel chip to give notebooks a lift

    Intel will once again increase the performance of notebooks when it releases a new 2.2GHz Pentium 4-M chip, according to sources familiar with its plans.

  • Tech Guide: Laptop tuneup tips

    Is your laptop cranky, sluggish, or out of sorts?

  • Tech Guide: Desktop replacements for business

    Want to replace crumbling desktops with beautiful new shiny notebooks, but don't know where to start? Our Tech Guide sorts out the details you need to know.

  • Intel outlines mobile future

    Chipmaker Intel has given details of new initiatives aimed at reducing the power consumption of notebook displays and at adding communications capabilities to portable computing devices.

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    The Toshiba Satellite L300 is the perfect budget laptop " simply designed and passable in performance.

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    The Satellite A200 is a decent machine for basic productivity needs, but otherwise does little to mark it out from the budget laptop pack.

  • Lenovo IdeaPad Y510

    While the IdeaPad Y510 is Lenovo's launch into the consumer space, the laptop didn't fall far from tree, its heritage in the ThinkPad line is clear. We found it to be an attractive, powerful performer with average battery life.

  • Toshiba Satellite M200 (Core 2 Duo 1.5GHz, 1GB RAM)

    Toshiba's M200 feels great, but doesn't stand out against an oncoming slew of budget competitors.

  • ASUS C90S

    ASUS have given us a powerful desktop replacement with the C90S, but the extra heat generated by desktop components means this laptop gets uncomfortably hot.

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