Battery Wars - This 'Is' the New Wireless Frontier by Dennis Schooley
I can picture it now. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader face off for an epic light-saber battle to the death! The fate of the world hangs in the balance! Then their light-saber batteries run out of juice so they’re left holding onto a couple of limp licorice sticks, resulting in a leg-wrestling... Proponent Rick Cooper feels that notebooks will have both a fuel cell and a lithium battery engineered into the next generation. ... If battery capability stagnates, as history has dictated so far, then portable device capability will follow suit.

Going Wireless with Your Headphones by John Francis
If you're looking for the latest in wireless headphones for your enjoyment and private listening, whether to TV, stereo, home entertainment such as theater, iTunes or Ipod, you might do well to look at the highly recommended Sennheiser RS 130 wireless headphones. ... Batteries are NiMH type, and their single charge keeps them going for 22 hours of your listening enjoyment. ... The features of the Sennheiser RS130 wireless headphones include a base station for the headphones that is attractive and stores the headphones whre they are not in use and also charges the batteries.

Practical Tips For Buying Your New Laptop by Titus Hoskins
So you want to buy a laptop but don't know where to start. You're not alone. Buying a new laptop can present many challenges, especially if you're unfamiliar with laptops or notebook computers. Over the last little while so much new laptop technology has hit the market... ... If you're not into gaming, handling large video files/editing, all that RAM is not needed but it will make your laptop run faster. ... If you just want a laptop for simple web browsing and emailing, a laptop made five years ago will do the job nicely and cost you a heck of lot less.

Thin And Light - Ultraportable Laptops by Sean Nicholls
In recent years, the big players in the laptop arena (Sony, Toshiba, HP, IBM, etc.) have begun producing ever more portable laptop computers, weighing in as little as 2.8 pounds and offering as much as 9 hours playback. Often portability would come at the cost of sacrificing functionality in... Unlike some other contenders to the ultraportable throne, the Q35 not only offers decent battery life (over 5hrs), a high performance processor (1.8 Ghz Intel Core2 Duo), bags of memory (1.25 GB RAM, 100GB Hard Disk), but also packs in an internal supermultidrive and a 6-in-1 memory card reader...

Wireless Network Trouble Shooting: Hidden Wireless Secrets Revealed by Eric Meyer
Do you always notice your wireless adapter is always dropping and reconnecting to your wireless network. If you don’t know what I mean just watch the balloon in the bottom right hand corner of you windows Xp task bar. Your wireless adapter should stay connected and that’s it if you are... Next if this still doesn’t work you should take the battery out of your laptop and hold the power button down for about a minute. ... Next after your wireless laptop is powered up then we will restart the wireless zero configuration utility, go to the run menu again and typ services.msc, press W to go all...

Impressive Solar Consumer Products by Jim Fritz
Being in the business of solar energy, we see a lot of new and exciting products long before they hit the store shelves. We attend a lot of tradeshows and industry conferences, and it never ceases to amaze me how passionate people are about their newly-developed applications. ... It is not exactly a revolutionary idea, but it certainly is an innovative use of existing technology. ... It is powered by a small battery that is continually charged by the sun throughout the day. ... We have all had situations when we are far from an outlet and the laptop dies.

Seven Things to Consider When Choosing a PDA by Jason Kohrs
In the early days, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) were not much more than glorified calculators with the ability to store contact information and brief notes. Now, the line between personal computer and personal digital assistant is blurred thanks to the advanced capabilities of these useful... Although real-world performance will vary among devices and how they are used, a battery with a higher mAh value will be able to hold a greater charge and last longer between charges. ... WiFi will not only allow compatible devices to exchange files, but the high speed will make streaming media...

The Dell Inspiron 1000 by Jawahn Thompson
The following article covers a topic that has recently moved to center stage--at least it seems that way. If you've been thinking you need to know more about it, here's your opportunity. The Dell Inspiron 1000 Notebook is one of the most basic, yet readily capable machines to grace the computer... One of the biggest problems that users of the Dell Inspiron 1000 Notebook will notice is the lack of battery power, and the computer’s basic inability to fully charge when plugged in, which usually gives the user a maximum battery time of twenty minutes, which is plain dismal in today’s world of...

Dell Inspiron 600m Notebook Computer by Matthew Keegan
After twelve years of owning desktop computers, I finally opted for a laptop so I would no longer be chained to my desk. After months of research and weighing various makes and models, I settled on the Dell Inspiron 600m Notebook Computer. This particular model has exceeded all of my... The battery lasts at least four hours without recharging and when I do need to recharge I can go from nearly dead to fully charged in less than one hour. ... Their top of the line warranty sends a technician to your house to fix your computer, so it can be option for those of you who do not want to ship --...

Personal Wireless with Bluetooth by Karen Wilkinson
If you already have a wireless network for your computers, you may be very interested in what's coming next. Would you like it if your PDA, your mobile phone, your mp3 player and almost everything else you connect to your computer could be wireless too? ... This has led to some people sending messages from their Bluetooth PDAs to others in close range -- not an especially useful feature, but quite fun. ... Some cars, for example, now have on-board computers that will connect with a Bluetooth phone and allow you to make hands-free calls, regardless of where the phone is in the car (even if...