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So I’ve bought a few gadgets and accessories of late and its time to write a review as some of them are worth the money and some are not and I don’t want people going and spending their money to find products are crap (like I have done!)

Logitech Portable Lapdesk

I’m guilty of using my laptop on my lap in the lounge. But I’ve given myself a few sore shoulders making piles of books etc so that I can use my mouse instead of the track pad. I prefer to play my games and drive my laptop with a mouse, but its not practical to do so. This weekend I picked up a Logitech Portable Lapdesk. Already, the improvement is awesome. I’m using my mouse and comfortable – no shoulder or arm pain to be found. Read more »

Laptop recovery underway behind my desk at work.
Not my usual laptop bag – I’m guessing it’s still in a box somewhere.

I’ve been talking about doing this for a while and people are probably sick to death of hearing about it, but I finally upgraded the RAM in my laptop.

It has gone from a dog under vista to a speedy machine. The difference was instantly noticeable.

What surprised me, was how easy it was to upgrade the ram. I was inititally worried that I might break the laptop. I’ve never taken the bottom off a laptop, ever. The only ever time the rear of my laptop has been off is when IT was getting the data off my Read more »

I’ve made no secret of the fact that I love Windows 7. Today I made the decision that I was going to install Windows 7 release candidate on my laptop seeing as its the worst performing computer in this house.

The release candidate is already available for download for TechNet and MSDN members, and will be available to the general public from the 5th May 2009 (PST) through until the end of July. The excellent thing about this release is that unlike the Beta, which starts expiring on July 1st 2009 and will be really dead by August 1st, the release candidate has a life span to June 2010 as reported by The Guardian recently.

Whats the minimum specifications for running Windows 7, well, a 1ghz processor, 1gb of ram among other things. This acer laptop which performs so poorly under Vista should be a slender athlete under Windows 7.

With all that said, I am planning on increasing the ram in the laptop to 4gb as the 1gb it has, is always at least 80% in use by Vista OS on its own and gets so hot sometimes I’m left with a laptop shaped pink spot on my legs, and it makes an excellent heating device in winter.

So why was I disposing of the linux partition? I couldn’t wait to have a little attempt at Windows 7 on the laptop, so I’m installing the original beta just to get a taste. I have no patience, but I do urge people to have some when the release candidate is available. I’m certain every every man and their dog and their fish will want to download it. But if you want a sneak peak at the asthetics, I suggest you go here.