How to Buy a Notebook PC

Notebook PC is the most famous product which is now becoming popular in all over the world. It seems that many of the manufacturers are ready to make this Notebook PC as per customer requirement. The customer only keeps this in mind that what type of Notebook PC is looking for and when to buy the Notebook PC.

Points to Consider When Choosing a New Notebook PC

1.     Screen- the most essential part in the Notebook PC is touch of the screen. The customer only keeps in mind that its touch is good or not and whether the screen will handle the pressure of the fingers very easily or not.

Screen size and its resolution also matters when you buy any Notebook PC. Size of Notebook PC is also important. The resolution of Notebook PC depends upon the specification of Notebook PC. How an images or videos will look in the screen it will depend upon the screen resolution.

2.     Operating System- the most important part of Notebook PC is its operating system. On which operating system does a Notebook PC is running is essential. In todays date four types of operating system is running successfully in the market i.e. Apple iOS, Google Android, Microsoft Windows and BlackBerry.

Apple iOS- the worlds largest company which holds the product of Apple only. Apple iOS is works only in apple products such as ipad, iphone, ipod, itouch. Over more than 20000 apps can run in the Tablet PC of apple without any creating a problem.

Microsoft Windows- the operating system for the Notebook PC ,tablets and phones. It holds small shares in the market of tablets and smarphones. The advantage of Microsoft window is, it is easily compatible as used in desktops and laptops. It provides transfer and sharing of files from tablets to desktops which are using same operating system.

Blackberry- the manufacturer of blackberry phones has developed its own operating system for its tablets. It is very much compatible with blackberry phones user.

3.     Memory- The important feature for any Notebook PC is storage capacity. Every Notebook PC comes up with its internal memory. The internal memory of any tablets starts from 1 GB and it go on to 500 GB. You can provide external memory card also to the Notebook PC. It depends upon the compatibility of the Notebook PC whether it will take external memory or not. When you take Notebook PC with low memory you will not able to store the apps and other contents which may important to you like images, files, documents and videos. Before buying any Notebook PC keep this in mind that if you are using many media files to store you will need extensive memory.  

4.     Wireless Connectivity- all Notebook PC provide wireless connectivity. No Notebook PC will specify the exact wireless specification. It provides 2GHz to 5GHz bands which are completely sufficient to the tablets connectivity. It also works on the Wi-Fi hotspot.  

5.     Camera- there is one camera in the Notebook PC. Front camera is used as webcam. The important aspects regarding camera is its resolution. Usually Notebook PC have same camera as a smartphones. The camera resolution is important because it will make difference in the image quality and how the image can be used. With higher resolution of camera, more images can be zoomed-in. The image quality will not affect when you zoomed-in any image, it will be crisp and clear as original image. Usually 4 MP is sufficient for printing an 8*10 picture without any cropping and distortion.  

6.     Speakers- usually the speakers of Notebook PC are tiny and it doesn’t produce so much of sound. You can check the quality of sounds in the headphones. It takes some time when you check the sound of Notebook PC.

7.     Inputs and Outputs- many Notebook PC provide connector such as headphones, USB connections and other wireless connection. Some manufacturer also provides the docking port for the connection of externalkeyboard. Apple tablets don’t provide any outside USB connections.

8.     Battery life- the most important part of Notebook PC is battery. The battery life depends upon the working of Notebook PC. Battery life of Notebook PC depends upon three things size of battery, brightness and for how much time Notebook PC is on. Many users don’t turn off their Notebook PC when it is not in use. They usually keep the Notebook PC in sleeping mode. When buying a Notebook PC consider two things regarding battery is for how much unit it will take when the Notebook PC is in sleeping mode and how much unit it will take when the Notebook PC is in use or its on working.

Many things are considered by manufacturer that what type of work is going on the Notebook PC. If you are only browsing the web it will take fewer units, if you are streaming videos it will take more energy than browsing and if you are playing games in it, it will take much more energy than browsing the web and streaming videos.

9.     Size and Weight- the last feature which is to be considered is the size and weight of the tablets. The size of any tablet starts from 5 inches and ends to 12 inches. The weight is depending upon the size and thickness of the tablet. Manufacturer of android tablet gives attention on the size and also on the weight of the tablets because a customer should not be in trouble or in problem when he/she handles the tablet. 

Tips Increase Battery Life of Notebook PC

There are number of brands that come up with laptops having great operating system like windows and apple ios etc .it allows user to listen music, play videos and to play games etc.

These all functionality runs laptops but mostly developer concerned on the battery life of the laptops. Most of the laptops run for one day or two days and then it fully depleted and then it needs to be recharge.

There are some essential tips to conserve the battery life of Notebook PC

1.     Low Brightness- it’s a one of the main reason that makes battery drain faster. You will able to see the screen contents when you lower the brightness of the screen. By lowering the brightness it saves too much of battery. The other thing you can do is set the brightness automatic; it will dynamically adjust the brightness of your screen as per your surroundings. Doing these things to laptops your battery life in the long run.

2.     Charge your battery-many laptops are ready to charge always. When you think that battery is about to die of your laptop try to recharge it properly and it should be charge until it doesn’t full. When the laptops are fully charged it works properly.  Purchase a new extra AC adapter when you are travelling for long distance. It use lithium based batteries and it can’t be overcharged. When you overcharge any battery its not good for the health of battery life. When you use your battery make it maximum battery life and use it and also disable the limiter and allow battery to charge to 100 percent.

3.     Close Apps- Many users use various apps and minimize it. User doesn’t bother to close those apps as it is consuming its battery.  The worst thing of laptops is when you didn’t use any apps you just minimize it doesn’t close it. The main factor of losing the battery life is not closing the apps properly. Leaving open any app it will reduce your battery to half. The better way to save your battery is kill that app which is not in the use.

4.     Disable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi- the main factor of reducing battery life is turning on the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when it is not in use. Energy is consumed when laptop searches the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals. Continuously searching of the signals makes battery reduce to its original level. When there is no signals it’s better to keep your laptops Bluetooth disable, it saves battery too much. On the other hand, when you think your laptop should be in use keep your laptop in high connectivity zones. This will save your battery and will not search for the signal very much. When it is not in use turn off the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

5.     Change the Power Settings- Most of the laptops by default set to the balanced rather than power saver. Check the appropriate power option in the control panel and select it. Most of the windows use different power options. In general terms, you are looking for saving your battery.

6.     Remove unnecessary peripherals- unnecessary peripherals such as DVD drives, webcams, USB drives. When all those devices are not in use you should keep them aside for long term battery life. When you insert DVD it continuously rotates in the drive which also affects the battery and also it reduces the battery. When webcam is not in use turn it off. When USB is also not in use eject it from the laptop.

7.     Upgrade to an SSD – mechanical hard disk which are common in all laptops have watts off spin but a solid state drive uses less spin and it saves battery.

8.     Internal Graphics- if your laptops is using Nvidia or AMD graphics its good for the laptops. But it’s not its very risky at most time if you are using your laptops for gaming purpose. When you play games the laptops energy is so much discharged if internal graphics is not so much good. So before purchasing the laptops see the integrated graphics of that laptop. Its very essential to use a good graphics card for laptops because it also saves battery when you are playing games.

9.     Manage your Memory- When you use lots of apps at a same time the battery life becomes low because it uses the system memory and it has to free the memory at that time. So while working this internally it uses much battery and its level becomes low. Increase the memory of laptops by which it will not affect to the battery when it opens lots of apps at a same time. User should try to manage its memory of his laptop to save its battery for long term.

How to Speed Up Your PC

Over the time, slowing and gradually your system start taking more time to process an instruction. It responds very slowly to user’s actions for opening a file, or surfing over web. So in order to speed up your system, users must follow certain steps to regain the original speed of the System or PC.

1. Startup Programs:

When you install a certain program on your system, it may use another small program that gets executed when the windows start. So in case after installing many program the boot up process of the PC slows down. Hence, you must disable those startup programs manually or through CCleaner as those are the programs that actually aren’t required to start every time the system starts.

Soluton is software that helps to speed up the boot process of the system.

2. Disk Cleanup:

Windows provide the already built in disk cleanup tools that helps in removing the old and temporarily files that are stored in the system. This in turn increases the memory space on your hard disk and hence gets to the improvement in the speed of the PC.

It is generally advisable or suggested to run the Disk cleanup utility once in a week time or on a monthly basis, which again depends on the amount of usage that is carried over on your system.

Disk cleanup cleans the entire files stored in the recycle bin, all the temporarily files loaded from the internet, cookies, etc. A scheduler can be set to give a reminder of running the disk cleanup tool on the PC.

3. Malware, Virus, Spyware and Adware

These are a kind of virus that is affected within the system while browsing over the net especially. These also involve fake antivirus applications that itself can be a virus and affect the PC by getting to reduce the speed of the system. Hence the user must focus on certain tools to be executed that removes such files from the system leading to the enhancement in the speed of the windows PC.

4. Clean up

Other that disk Cleanup that involves certain useless files in the system, there are many other unnecessary documents, images, music files that are no more of use and interest for the users. Such files must be removed from the system helping to free the disk space and increasing the speed henceforth.  The log files, browsing history are also included within the list. Such files can be removed by executing CCleaner tool on the system which quickly and silently deleted all unwanted or unnecessary files.

5. Windows feature

There are many features that the users don’t used but are enabled on the system, and takes up the space of valuable resources on the PC. Hence these windows features are needed to be disabled so that it doesn’t affect the function of the system and bring any hindrance in the functioning.

6. Indexing Services

When you search for a file or a folder on the system through search option, windows scans all those documents and creates an index file that then helps to speed up the search process. Where it served to be useful to the user, on the other hand it also consumes a large amount of system resource and slows down its processing. Hence it is better to turn off the indexing services which helps in not only increasing the speed but also frees up the memory space for more storage of important content.

Here search for “services.msc” file in the system. As soon as the link is displayed; click on that option. Then search for the Windows Search service and find its properties from the popup menu. To disable the properties click on disable from the drop-down list and click ok to finalize the change.

Once this is don’t reboot the system to confirm the change made within the system.

7. Start Menu

A simple change of a key in the registry helps to open the start menu faster and display its contents and submenus at a greater speed. On the left pane of the registry editor, modify the value between 0-4000; indicating the milliseconds for the menu to be displayed and press to accept the change. Once you close the registry editor it is recommended to reboot the system to bring the affect of the change.

8. Uninstalling the programs

Sometimes, it happens that when you uninstall a particular program certain files of it remains within the system accumulated in the memory. Hence user must see to it while uninstalling the programs and make sure that all the files related to be uninstalled files are deleted or not. Hence the unused files are removed helping in the resultant of the increasing speed of the system.

9. Folders

Folders must be organized carefully as lot many files in one folder can slow down the explorer. Hence in such case try your level best to create multiple folders and save the files among many folders and not that it happens to be in just one.

10. Cleaning of Physical or hardware parts

It is very necessary to clean up the hardware or physical parts of the system timely and prevent it from any dust or dirt from settling on the system. Sometimes overheat of the system is responsible for the failure of the system hardware too and eventually break downs of the parts of the PC.