There’ve been a number of reports over the last few days about how the percentage of netbooks using solid state disks instead of hard drives is expected to fall in 2009. SSDs may be more durable and, in some cases, faster than hard drives. But they’re also much more expensive, which means most netbooks with […]
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How to upgrade the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 RAM and HDD
Not everyone wants to know how to rip apart a computer to install an internal Bluetooth dongle or perform other minor surgery. Sometimes all you need to know is how to upgrade the RAM or hard drive. And Laptop Magazine’s got instructions on how to do that with the recently released Lenovo IdeaPad S10. Lenovo […]
160GB Asus Eee PC 1000H coming soon?
So far Asus has released two distinct systems in the Eee PC 1000 line. There’s the Eee PC 1000 with its 40GB solid state disk and there’s the Eee PC 1000H with its 80GB hard drive. Asus has also announced a 1000HD model which has an 80GB hard drive, but that model comes with a […]
MSI upgrades Wind hard drive to 120GB
Sure, MSI may have decided to replace the Synaptics touchpad in its Wind laptops with a less functional Sentelic touchpad. But hey, now you can get a Wind with a 120GB hard drive instead of the standard 80GB drive. The new version should be available starting immediately, but it might take a while before you […]
How to replace the Acer Aspire One SSD with a hard drive
If you thought adding a Bluetooth module to the Acer Aspire One was cool, how about practically squaring the amount of storage available? Tnkgirl is back with part two in her Aspire One hacking series, and this time she’s replaced the solid state disk with a 60GB hard drive. But wait, you might be asking, […]
Asus intros 30GB Eee PC 900
Asus has introduced yet another Eee PC model. This time, the company is offering an Eee PC 900 with a 30GB hard drive. Older Eee PC 900 models come with 12GB or 20GB solid state disks. The new units are only showing up on the Asus China page at the moment. It looks like you […]
How to add a hard drive to an Eee PC 901
Eee PC hacker extraordinaire jkkmobile has posted a video showing how to add a hard drive or a CF card adapter to an Eee PC 901. The whole process is made extraordinarily easy by the fact that Asus included a little shelf in the computer that’s almost exactly the right size for resting a 1.8 […]
Upgrading the Mini-Note hard drive
You can pick up an HP Mini-Note with a 1.2GHz processor and 120GB hard drive for just $50 more than the 1.0GHZ/4GB SSD version. But if you buy the lower end model and then later decide you want a higher capacity hard drive, it’s pretty easy to upgrade. HP Mini Note PC has step by […]