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Spotify: the beginning of the end of the free

May 25th, 2011

Spotify: the beginning of the end of the free

A huge music catalog free and unlimited use through advertising , and has been promoted Spotify since hatching business model nearly three years, expanding to most European countries and trying, again and again, across the pond to the new continent.

But it has reached a turning point for the service of Swedish origin and we will experience it soon, especially if we make use of an account Open or Free , which are hitherto been free with ads. From now on, reach new limits designed to promote paid subscription to this program, and here’s the details:

What are these changes?

* Spotify entire catalog is still available to any user, but those who have accounts Free or Open can only hear up to 5 times each song . Once this limit, it turns off the catalog.

* The monthly limit listening time increases and now comes the Free Spotify users. In either of two free forms, users can only listen to 10 hours a month of music Spotify catalog.

Who is affected by these changes and from when?

These changes will be effective from May 1 to all users of Free or Open accounts registered before November 2, 2010 . In the event that your account is more recent than that date will have until November 1, 2011 , ie six months without such limitations.

Of course, the limits described above shall not apply to songs you’ve imported into Spotify from your hard drive .

And the reasons for Spotify?

The creators of the greatest musical phenomenon of the Internet in recent years argue that these measures are necessary to ensure that its business model to move forward . This strategy is a clear motivation for users who were hesitant about paying for this service, you decide to take the plunge, either in the form Unlimited , for euros 4.99, or premium , of 9.99 euros and Releases exclusive access to and use of the version for mobile Spotify .

As reassuring reason, Spotify says that the average user would only limit of 5 copies in 30% of the music you hear, ie not notice this change in 7 out of 10 songs .

These figures have not been proven, nor reassure users with a fixed collection of items that will have to continue listening to his songs by other means.

What I can do now to listen to music without limits?

Mainly you have two options:

1. Get a Spotify account payment will be abandoned to these limits and, incidentally, with the increasing amount of advertising the program. You can do it here .

2. Draw on their alternatives, as Grooveshark or Musicue , whose business models are supported also by advertising but not limited to, for now, the playing time of the catalog.

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What do you think these changes? Will they in the business of Spotify or, conversely, will generate more subscriptions and they will improve over time?

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Lenovo ThinkPad X201 tablet four advanced feature

April 22nd, 2011

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With the mobile computers of Lenovo ThinkPad X201 Tablet Series Lenovo presents technically highly equipped subnotebooks. The screen of the computer can be rotated 180 degrees to transform the device into a digital notepad.

Super Power

Lenovo ThinkPad X201 Tablet is in the models to the latest Intel Core technology. The computers of the series are equipped with speedy Intel Core i7 620LM processors that provide a clock speed of 2.0 GHz and equipped with four megabytes of L2 cache. There are technical differences, including the compilation of hard disk space and memory. Here is a model with a 250 GB hard drive and 2,048 MB of DDR3 SDRAM and a larger sized computer with a disk size of 320 GB or 4.096 MB of memory, 3 hours laptop battery working time..

Compact Screen

Be particularly handy, the Lenovo ThinkPad X201 Tablet battery notebooks prove by the compact screen that has a diagonal of 12.1 inches. The display is dull and has an energy-saving LED backlight. The maximum displayable resolution is 1280 x 800 pixels. For graphics, the shared-memory graphics solution Intel HD is responsible.

Top Equipment

To meet the needs of business customers, Lenovo has equipped the computers in this series very well. Three USB 2.0 ports ensure that the external hardware can easily connect to the notebook. Connection to the wired network, see the Tablet PC has a fast 10/100/1000 Ethernet port. Also, ThinkPad X201 battery comes with the integrated wireless WLAN module for the 802.11 a / b / g / n works very quickly to the point. In addition, Bluetooth wireless data is for Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR of the basic equipment. A 5-round in-1 card reader and a fingerprint sensor, the facilities provided. If the customer chooses the model with the larger hard drives and memory equipment, find themselves in a housing on top ExpressCard/54-Eingang and an HSDPA module for location-independent Internet access.

With 12 “diagonal, the dimensions are not much larger than the screen and its battery like ThinkPad T410 battery protrudes only slightly behind. The peculiarity of the screen is its hybrid character, multi-touch features to interact with the fingers and at the same time compatible with a pointer as used in the digitizer. In this way, you can enjoy the immediacy of the touch interface and precision of using a pointer. And all this without the display quality will suffer too, beyond provide a matte appearance that is otherwise preferable to the usual glossy today.

Powerful processor

What is striking in this team is the presence of a Core i7 L620 to 2 GHz with two physical cores and four logical thanks to HyperThreading technology. It is a somewhat risky choice, given the high maximum TDP of the processor, which reaches up to 25 W. However, the Power Manager software integrated into the Think Vantage tools does an excellent job when regular consumption. Just move a slider to get the maximum performance to maximum savings while watching how the watts consumed is reduced from 30 W to just over 10. However, for maximum savings must go to the BIOS to disable HT or even to work only one physical core. It’s a pretty powerful processor performance, and when required, responds, but at the cost of increasing consumption. In fact, in Battery Eater Pro test autonomy reached only 2 hours and 24 minutes with 65 Whr battery, also it is the same run time with the 6Cell Lenovo 3000 N200 battery.

The hard disk of 320 GB, 4 GB of DDR3 memory and integrated graphics on the CPU are other hardware elements responsible for good behavior in the aspect of performance. Do not forget that a team of 12 “ultraportable, with proper equipment performance traditionally large and unwieldy.

Lenovo 3000 N500 battery‘s work is not only the hardware side. In the section of the software has also managed to develop excellent tools for team management. Now, with touch screens, has integrated Tap Simple interface that provides access to settings and tools so intuitive system using gestures such as touching the screen, moving sliders, and so on. In addition, hardware devices are integrated as far as possible within the Windows Device Stage 7, with all that that implies a level of configuration and management.

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HP Pavilion DM3 specs and review part Two

April 1st, 2011

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Even with the subjective view can be said that the unit can heat fairly. While the Compaq Presario CQ42 battery objective warmest area in the center of the keyboard feels less hot because there is not metal but with plastic buttons come in contact. Almost 39 degrees Celsius on the left palm rest and a high of 39.7 degrees Celsius in an hour stress test are certainly violent in and of itself. But with a maximum of 45.8 degrees Celsius, it is still thick on the bottom. This is at least one application under heavy load on the thighs is not advisable.

With the 6-cell lithium ion HP g50 battery with 57 Wh are possible depending on the needs and attitudes good grid Laufzeitenn. Although we did not reach the 10-hours advertised that the U.S. offered in the dm3-1040us. To be fair, one must mention, however, that HP for this device specifies only a maximum of 7 hours. At most we identified with the reader’s test of the battery eater tools with maximum power saving mechanisms, deactivated WLAN, minimum screen brightness and HD 3200 graphics chip still almost six and a half hours.

The minimum HP g70 battery capacity, which was recorded by the Battery Eater Classic test tools out there, with nearly one and a half hours to the lower bound when operating under full load with WLAN enabled, maximum brightness and active HD 4330 graphics card. In practical tests, we measured almost three hours of uninterrupted wireless surfing at maximum brightness, power saving profile and HD3200 test. When watching a DVD with the included external drive, high performance profile, also maximum brightness and HD 4330 graphics cards was discharged after more than three-quarter hours of battery.

This test model is coming with the requirements of a small mobile entertainer . The switchable graphics the device is very well adapted to the current demand for graphics performance and battery life. Nevertheless, it can reach up to 6.5 hours with no new peak in terms of HP Pavilion DM4 battery life.

An impediment to the mobile user is likely to prove to the highly reflective screen. The brightness could turn out for a quiet outdoor use later.

Despite the relatively small size, the interface equipment is well matched to the proposed area of ​​operation. With HDMI, WebCam, four USB 2.0 ports, LAN and Bluetooth you can find almost everything you expect from a mobile entertainer. Only the internal optical drive is missing. But even then, HP Compaq 6730s battery has thought along with supplies and an external USB drive.

The dm3 was developed as a mobile entertainer for the consumer market. A professional permanent use is not advisable because of the reflective screen. Should the dm3 closer to consider is to pay particular attention to the precise, very different specification of each model, which ultimately determines the application range of the laptop.

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HP Pavilion DM3 specs and review Part one

March 30th, 2011

HP launches the Pavilion dm3 a consumer subnotebook on the market that will score with its multimedia functionality and its switchable graphics. Whether the Pavilion dm3 actually creates, as promised “light-weight design and bring” heavy-weight “performance combined with model-dependent up to 10 hours of HP Pavilion DM4 battery life under one roof .

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HP Pavilion DM3 Specs :

Dimensions : 326 x 230 x 32mm (WDH)
Weight : 1.900kg
Processor : AMD Athlon Neo X2 L335
RAM capacity : 4.00GB
Screen size : 13.3in
Resolution : 1366 x 768
Graphics chipset : ATI Radeon HD 3200
Hard disk usable capacity : 298GB
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium
Ports: 4x USB 2,0, 5-in-1 Card reader, HDMI
HP pavilion dv6 battery capacity : 5,000mAh

The outer shell has missed the HP Pavilion dm3 an ultra-slim housing of only 326 millimeters wide, 230 millimeters in depth and a maximum height of 31.8 millimeters, which weighs only 2 pounds,. This increases the height of front (24.8 mm) slowly backwards so that one for typing comfortable, lightweight skew results.

HP Pavilion dm3 equipped with all the interfaces that you expect from a reasonable entertainer. In addition to the analog VGA connector on a monitor or projector, which dm3 also has a HDMI port for digital image and sound transmission. Assisted with the built-in 5-in-1 card reader that accepts SD, MMC, MS, MS Pro, XD cards, you can write many popular card formats and hopefully discover that their own digital camera. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that in the small 13.3-inch four USB 2.0 ports. But one must do with an internal optical drive. hp 520 battery has made provisions and provides an external USB drive, which however has only a very short, fixed cable .

Tested Pavilion dm3 Network access allows Wired wirelessly via Realtek RTL8139/810x Fast Ethernet Adapter (that used in HP pavilion zd8000 battery), the other via Atheros AR9285 802.11b / g WiFi adapter via. Bluetooth not on the menu on test model. An integrated broadband modem (UMTS) is currently provided for a model. UMTS could however upgrade via USB modem, and often neglected two USB ports are occupied. With the HP Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone, video telephony should definitely be no problem.

Our Pavilion dm3 test device is based on an AMD M780 chipset and AMD Athlon X2 Neo L335 Dual-Core processor with 1600 MHz clock speed equipped. These are produced in a 65-nanometer lithography dual-core processor with 256 kilobytes twice Level 2 cache and a power dissipation (Thermal Design Power) of 18 watts. The M780 chipset supports up to 8 GB of RAM. Its technology allows ATI PowerXpress between the integrated graphics chip, an ATI Radeon HD3200 switch and an external graphics card. Our test unit makes use of this facility and also has an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 on board.

Unfortunately, the HP G62 battery processor speed when in battery mode decreases slightly. In Cinebench multi-rendering test, for example by 6%. The cause can be specified in battery mode varying clock speeds, the clock rate, but also in operation with very little load time and again reduced to about 800MHz.

HP pavilion dv8000 battery screen is a AUO102C with LED-backlit by the Taiwanese manufacturer AU Optronics Corporation. The 13.3-inch BrightView widescreen display, ie with a reflective surface, provides a cinema-friendly 1366×768 pixel resolution in 16:9 format.

Maximum brightness is 201 cd / m², as measured in the left upper segment and falls off gradually to the right and down, so that we can hold the minimum brightness of 176.8 cd / m² for the lower right corner. This is still a pretty good coverage of almost 88%. With the relatively high black value of 1.16 cd / m² and in the central segment measured maximum brightness of 197 cd / m², calculated a sufficient contrast ratio of 1:170. Subjectively, the colors are quite good. Similarly, one can see with the naked eye, no irregularities in the preparation of monochrome images.

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Messenger 2011: what we like and what not

March 7th, 2011

Messenger 2011: what we like and what not

Three months after the onset of the first beta of Messenger 2011, it has finally made public. Windows Live Messenger 2011 (15.3.2804.607) has been distributed with the beta of Windows Live Essentials 2011 , the "fourth wave" domestic Suite Microsoft.

In our first approach quickly mention the highlights of the new Messenger, but still in the same depth. Now with a more functional and translated into Spanish, we tell you what we like and what we repatea the new Messenger 2011.

What we like

In general, we love that Messenger has polished its appearance, is better integrated with Windows 7 and keep most functions. However, the five developments that taste better have left are:

1. Tabbed conversations

Finally, Messenger supports tabbed conversations. They are one of the "innovations" highlights of the 2011 version, and once the test is impossible without them (more or less as it happened with the tabs in browsers).

Pestanas en Messenger

The tabs can be moved, detached and, of course, closed. The curious note puts the "Send this person ringing, a quick way to" activate "a conversation in the background.

2. HD videoconferencing

Messenger video conferencing was never very popular. The poor quality made many people preferred to Skype when talking to the webcam, even to situations as curious as streaming video via Skype and write the text in Messenger.

Vídeo HD en Messenger

The good news is that the video quality of Windows Live Messenger 2011 is much larger than its predecessor, something we all appreciate. Skype draw on will no longer be required.

3. Video messages

Audio messages were an interesting feature of previous editions of Messenger, especially useful to clarify the pronunciation of a word or take fright: video messaging Windows Live Messenger 2011 has been a predictable development. Quickly created and stored on SkyDrive to the delight of your contacts.

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4. New emoticons

The smileys are one of the great attractions of Messenger, one of the reasons why millions of people are using it worldwide. The 2011 version completely renewed selection of emoticons, renewing the classics and adding some very nice. It’s about time.

Emoticonos de Messenger 2010

5. Blocking by category

The blockade, Messenger 2011, and it is not named, but "appear offline to this person," a term less drastic and which illustrates the real value of this function. Blocking a user, in fact, has never been a definitive move.

Bloquear grupo

Now, as in Facebook, you can block groups of users or, to put as Messenger 2011, appear as offline to them. Essential to talk with whoever you want without having to hide.

What we do not like

We would have liked to see a Messenger bolder, more revolutionary. It is true that WLM 2011 adds integration with social networks, but in some ways follows a strictly conservative policy. The memory consumption has also worsened.

1. Not compatible with XP

Okay, Microsoft, want us all to move on to Windows 7. However, do not you think a little radical to deny the use of Messenger 2011 at the 30% of users still boot Windows XP on their computers? Inelegant gesture.

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2. No handwritten messages

Drawing on the chat was fun, one of the hallmarks of Messenger. The disappearance of this feature is obviously incomprehensible. With version 2011 and can not play Pictionary or waving a big HELLO drawn freehand. A pity.

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3. You have to enter to change the nickname Live.com

Yes, Live.com is a promising site, very cool it. However, what is so integration with Live.com? Messenger in 2011, to change the nickname need to open the profile Live in the browser. Until the 2009 version was much easier and fun. Maybe a ploy to take more seriously the nickname chosen?

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4. Advertising is still there

And with a close button ridiculous, as if that would make it more bearable. We’d love to see a Messenger without ads, but this may be, is unlikely to remove the final version. Meanwhile, continue to use A-Patch and other patches like …

Publicidad en Messenger 2010

5. It is no longer possible to speak while Offline

Before an elegy could appear as offline and keep talking to their contacts, in the style of Ghost . Well, 2011 and Messenger does not.

Mensajes estando Desconectado

Once again, Microsoft remove features in order to change the way we use their software. In this case, the goal is obvious: use the filter to groups and people you do not want to communicate.

Have you tried and Messenger 2011? What do you like and what you hate the new version?

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Twenty essential applications for Nokia 5800

February 24th, 2011

Twenty essential applications for Nokia 5800

Since the iPhone revolution began to popularize high-performance mobile phones. Now, most phones feature large screens, lots of applications and all types of wireless connections. Three features that have become conventional phones into true handheld computers.

Until recently these phones were too expensive for use outside the professional. This is changing in a rush. No need to pay an excessive fee to connect a phone to the Internet. With data plans and wireless connections, this is possible at a reasonable price

One phone that has brought the high performance of the iPhone and Blackberry to ordinary mortals is Nokia 5800. Obviously not have the capabilities of the above but it’s not far away at this and its price is more attractive.

Some editors are OnSoftware users of this phone, so taking the opportunity we have selected a number of programs that should not miss on a Nokia 5800 .

Google Mobile App : Google Dile should seek the speakerphone.

Fring / Nimbuzz : All your contacts from Skype, GoogleTalk, Facebook, MSN, Yahoo Messeger in one program.

Skype : : Use the Internet to make VOIP calls.

Facebook : The most popular social network.

Google maps : road maps, satellite view and streetview.

Gmail : The email account interconnected.

Mobbler : Music on your mobile via Last.fm.

Google Translator : A friend who knows all languages.

OVI Store : Access All signed applications in the Nokia store.

BrightLight : Use the phone flash as a flashlight.

Walkietooth: Walkie talkie a través de Bluetooth.

Mobile Opera / Opera Mini : Alternative to the Nokia browser.

Garmin : GPS navigation for payment.

FolderPlay : Plays the songs in a folder.

AccuWeather : Weather information from any city in the world just a click away.

Strobe Touch : flashes of light with the time interval you want.

WeFi : Find and test the available WiFi networks for you.

YouTube : videos and pictures to hang.

JoikuSpot : Connect a computer to the Internet using your phone as a modem.
Pages with applications for Nokia 5800:

* Tube5800
* AplicacionesNokia5800

Articles:

* 10 Best Symbian apps of 2009
* Skype finally comes to Nokia phones

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Toshiba Satellite U505 Notebook Review

October 14th, 2010

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The Toshiba Satellite U500 and U505 series notebooks are built with 13 inch display screen, Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, it should leave deep impression to many folks. The U405 is an excellent product in 2008, and now, the new Toshiba pa3399u 1brs laptop Satellite U505 is perfect as well.

Below is the specification for Toshiba Satellite U505:

  1. Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 (2.0GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 3MB cache)
  2. Memory: 4GB DDR2 SDRAM (800MHz)
  3. Operation System: Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 (64-bit)
  4. Storage: 400GB HDD (5400rpm, SATA)
  5. Screen: 13.3-inch diagonal WXGA (glossy, 1280×800)
  6. Graphics: Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
  7. Optical drive: Slot-Loading DVD SuperMulti (+/- Double Layer) drive
  8. Wireless: Intel 5100AGN
  9. Dimensions: (W x D x H): 12.5″ x 9.08″ x 1.16″/1.50″
  10. Weight: 4.75lb (not including weight of AC adapter).
  11. Battery: High Capacity Lithium-Ion Toshiba pa3399u 2brs Battery (12-cell, 92Wh, 8500mAh)
  12. Others: Texture Finish in Luxe Brown Premium

Toshiba pa3534u 1brs U505’s outline is featured with plastic material, Luxe Brown Premium finishing, there are textures around the palmrest and LCD, and it is formed by heavy pressure module. Many other cheap computers which made up of plastic material easy to generate squish sound, but U505 doesn’t.

The brand-new Toshiba pa3420u 1brs Satellite U500 and U505 series notebook feature a portable compact footprint similar to most laptops with a 13.3 inch screen, but we can’t say that this notebook is super protable, actually, it maybe one of the larger 13 inch laptops currently on the market. Toshiba U505 is not only thicker than the Apple’s MacBook Air or Lenovo’s ThinkPad X301, but also thicker and heavier than the DELL Studio XPS 13 or the 13-inch MacBook Pro.

The U505 screen is WXGA (1080 x 800), CCRL backlight are great. U505 did same with U405 on gloss and matte matching for the screen. So you won’t experience trouble the reflections except you sit under the direct sunlight and the Toshiba pa3450u 1brs screen brightness turns down.

As we know, there are many notebook factories already have begun to improve the display screen to 16:9 aspect ratio as LCD are also 16:9. But on U500 and U505 series, Toshiba still insist on the old 16:10 aspect ratio widescreen display. This character let U505 more seems like square-shaped.

U505 uses flat keys as Toshiba pa3421u 1brs decided to make them seems like an upside down “T” shape, this is not same as the former U405, so the new users have to take few times to familiar with the keys. The keyboard and touchpad backlighting are nice to help you see what you’re typing in a dark environment.

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iPhone battery Feather Case comes with super-light and spare battery

August 6th, 2010

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Some guys complain in the Apple forum : After I got my 3G gejailbreakt via jailbreakme and installed Apps now the battery working time only last several hours at 100% (no, the iPhone is not the cable).
This has clearly not enough  for me, had not thought that this affects the Latitude D820 battery so positive!

Nope, now seriously: Does anyone still have a spare iPhone battery? Did except sbsettings only mywi and iFile it. Did the iPhone too many times gerespringt and restarted. Even the off and on the numeric Apple battery indicator in sbsettings does not help.

Where is just the battery?, http://www.battery4.us In view of the thin iPhone 3G Feather Toshiba PA3534U-1BRS Battery Case, one wonders, in fact, where the manufacturer has placed in the hard plastic shell for the iPhone 3G yet, including a battery LED camera light.

The built-in iPhone Apple A1175 battery lasts a long while, often, unfortunately, never long enough. As an extra battery is just right, most fully in an iPhone sleeve, as the new iPhone 3G Feather Battery Case, who is also the iPhone equips or with a LED camera light that even in low light conditions for a good photo and video recording with the apple mobile phone can provide.

The new case is to weigh only 60 grams and has an integrated 1600 mAh Apple A1185 battery – according to the manufacturer to ensure that the talk time with the iPhone could nearly double. In addition, interesting: The integrated, switchable LED light.

The iPhone 3G Feather Case Apple Battery is available now for 49.90 Euro.

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Lenovo Thinkpad X300 further Review

May 17th, 2010

ThinkPad X300 reason of concern because of its research and its technologies are used in many of today’s popular ultra-portable notebook at the same time has always been the focus of attention. Light is the biggest selling point, ThinkPad X300 lightest to 1.33 kilograms (even if the choice of optical drive, weighs only 1.42 kilograms), the thinnest Department only 18.6 millimeters, at the same time with a 7 mm ultra-thin double-layer recordable DVD drive (Also Dell latitude D620 battery use this DVD driver), you can easily Add bags or luggage.

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Thinkpad X300 Specs

  • Processor: 1.20GHz Intel Core 2 Duo L7100 (800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache)
  • Graphics: Intel X3100 as Thinkpad X200 battery
  • Screen: 13.3-inch WXGA+ (1440 x 900, 300 nit) LED backlit display
  • Memory: 2GB (up to 4GB configurable)
  • Storage: 64GB SSD
  • Optical Drive: Ultra-thin DVD Burner
  • Wireless and Communications: Intel 4965AGN (802.11 a/b/g/n wi-fi), BlueTooth 2.0 EDR, Intel UWB, GPS, Verizon WWAN (EV-DO)
  • Battery: 6-cell Li-Ion extended life battery
  • Ports: 3 USB 2.0 ports, Monitor out port, AC adapter, headphone/line-out, microphone/line-in, Gigabit Ethernet
  • Dimensions: 12.4″ x 9.1″ x 0.73″ – 0.92″
  • Weight: from 2.93lbs with 3-cell battery and no optical drive to 3.32lbs with 6-cell battery and DVD Burner in
  • Port Replicator: Via USB
  • Input: Full sized keyboard, trackpoint navigation, touchpad, fingerprint reader
  • Operating System: Windows XP or Windows Vista (in various flavors)
  • Other Features: Integrated web camera, powerful thinkpad X300 battery

It to a lot of people compare Apple Macbook Air Apple Macbook Air as “the ultimate thin and light” and the ThinkPad X300 is a “no compromise light” here refers to the uncompromising performance, the existence of Apple Macbook Air interface less than , non-standard optical disk drive, memory card there, and many other battery change not regret, and the ThinkPad X300 is more comprehensive.

Light, is the beginning of thin ThinkPad X300 notebook to get the first impression, as is currently the lightest full-featured notebook 13 inches, really deserves. Whole transmission is still the appearance of the “black” appearance of the classic, although the machine has been monotonous black as main color, but it gives the feeling of losing fashion. Its powerful battery is litium battery as VGP-BPS8 VGP-BPS9 VGP-BPS11 VGP-BPS13. The reason why such a thin and light ThinkPad X300 with its use of the material body has a great relationship, X300 using CFRP carbon fiber and glass fiber GFRP as top and bottom of the body material, to ensure a solid body of good control at the same time weight machine.

Thinkpad X300 battery using locking design, unlock the front left is located in the fuselage, one-handed opening and closing of the notebook some difficulties, but the benefits of this design is the security of the notebook have a good guarantee. Of course, there are less than each notebook, I use the X300 for some time, found that the shaft resistance of a small notebook, so I do not know the design of the notebook, or more than the number of opening and closing of cause; In addition, the skin texture of the matte notebook region, if the user the situation in this touching and humid, it is easy to leave a mark, but it is very difficult to remove.

Thinkpad X300 interior design, in the whole extension of the ThinkPad is still the IBM traditional style, in the middle of the screen set up above the 1.3 million-pixel camera, the camera lights next to the keyboard, user-friendly to use in the dark. In the look down in the notebook inside of the two axes are the logo and the Lenovo logo X300.

Relatively rich interface X300 is a big selling point, many people give up Apple Macbook Air and X300 choose one of the major reasons is because this point. Although the X300 compared to the ordinary 13-inch notebook interface or worse, but has been used to meet the day-to-day. The following is a notebook specific distribution of the interface.

In fact, the whole performance of X300 can only say that it is ordinary, Core 2 Duo L7100 processor frequency of only 1.2GHz as thinkpad X200 battery, but the application of the ordinary day-to-day, or enough. In fact, the hardware configuration of the X300’s biggest bright spot is the hard drive is equipped with, X300 uses SSD solid state hard drive, SSD solid state drive uses NAND flash memory, hard drive not have to worry about the collision of data loss, which greatly raised the hard disk data security.

Overall, this notebook is remarkable, 13-inch thin frame, 1.33 kilograms of whole weight, the excellent performance of the hard drive, LED screen, said to be worthy of the ThinkPad family of a milestone for inspiron 6000. But there are also many places with some regret that the general processor performance, interface, or a little weak, especially the price of the current wetlands, or some to be prohibitive. The X300 is currently priced at 24,999 yuan, more suitable for high-end business users, especially for a portable notebook and endurance than the value of this part of users.

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Dell XPS M1730 battery review

December 3rd, 2009

Dell XPS M1730 battery review

Dell XPS M1730 battery is a standard Dell XPS sereies battery ( XPS M1210 Battery, XPS M1330 Battery, XPS M1530 Battery) for notebook. This XPS M1730 battery is a black 9cells 85WHr li-ion Dell battery. On XPS M1730 battery has six indicator lights. When you press the button the lights become green to show its capacitance. There are some battery’s detail info on its back as replace code, capacity, using Attentions . Also the interface connect to laptop and bayonet are set on its side.

Excellent Specs :
# High capacity (85WHr) lets your XPS M1730 work longer.
# Quick-charging : fully charged in 3 hours.

Manufacturer Part# : WG317
Dell Part# : 312-0680
Please Notice this : the battery cant replace XPS M1530 battery

Tech Specs :

Product Type : laptop Battery
Features : For Dell XPS M1730 Notebook
Battery : 9-Cell Lithium-Ion
Power Provided : 85 WHr

Dell XPS M1730 battery problems:
Thats maybe the dell mainboard and adapter probelm : Just last night I started receiving a message saying, “The AC Power Adapter Type cannot be determined. Your system will operate slower and the battery will not charge. Please connect a Dell 230W AC Adapter or Higher for Best Results”.

Customers Rating :

Doesn’t hold much charge, maybe an hour (when it was NEW). Now that it is a year old, it holds ZERO charge. If I unplug my computer, the battery holds no charge and the computer crashes immediately. Poor quality, poor value.

The battery that came with my M1730 is so weak my computer shuts down 10 sec after I unplug it. I did not use the battery much – always plugged in. The price is absolutely ridiculous for something that only lasts a year and provides 1 hour of power.

In the end the xps m1730 battery is a new battery as sony Sony VGP-BPS8 VGP-BPS9 VGP-BPS9/B  VGP-BPS13.There maybe some replacement in the market, you can select a cheap replacement for your OEM battery when you long working with battery. As the frequent “long time discharging” can damage your OEM battery.

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