The HP Envy 17 is geared as a desktop replacement laptop that provides the performance of a desktop machine in a more portable design. Its size and weight are not particularly conducive to travel and mobility, but it provides nearly the full desktop experience in a machine you can take with you.

The release of the iPad and other touch and tablet devices over the past few years has made manufacturers start to envision new and unique ways to integrate touch into devices. Acer’s new Iconia laptop is one of the more innovative designs yet.

Toshiba showed off their new device, the Toshiba Tablet, at the Consumer Electronics Show recently, and it seems to be a direct competitor to Apple’s iPad, which currently leads the category in market share and overall popularity. The device offers a few features to set it apart, such as a larger screen and the Android [...]

The HP Envy 17 is geared as a desktop replacement laptop that provides the performance of a desktop machine in a more portable design. Its size and weight are not particularly conducive to travel and mobility, but it provides nearly the full desktop experience in a machine you can take with you.

Apple launched their new line of MacBook Pro laptops on Thursday to much fanfare from consumers and tech pundits. The new models did not feature any radical design changes, as some had expected, but the inclusion of Intel and Apple’s new Thunderbolt technology and a number of excellent speed improvements make for a very worthy [...]

Not many years ago, the idea of gaming on a laptop would have seemed fairly silly. Today, many laptops are just as powerful as desktop machines, and include the same high-end graphics chipsets and powerful processors as some of the better gaming desktop machines. There are a few factors to consider ensuring that your gaming [...]

One of the best ways to make any computer or laptop perform better is to upgrade its memory capacity. In many cases, adding more memory, or RAM, can dramatically increase the laptop’s performance, and allow it to run more programs at once, or to run more memory-intensive programs such as Photoshop without slowdowns.

The Acer Aspire One is a powerful netbook with great battery life and portability. Unfortunately, the standard model comes with only 1GB of RAM, even though it can support up to 2GB. The good news is that upgrading an Acer Aspire One is both easy and inexpensive. Adding more RAM allows you to have more [...]

The IBM Thinkpad is capable of using 2 GB of RAM but is shipped with two modules of 256 MB. To replace both of them you will need to remove the keyboard; only one module is located behind the keyboard. With a few simple tools and a half hour of time you will have an [...]

This set of instructions work for an IBM Lenovo Thinkpad R30 laptop but should apply to others as well. Installing a new or replacing an existing miniPCI card is a simple and easy process that can be performed in less than 30 minutes.