28Jul Forget adding power to your netbook, use a netbook battery to power everythng

People spend a lot of time figuring out how to make their gadgets last longer. And in the realm of netbooks, that’s usually meant shopping around for third party extended capacity netbook batteries or building your own. But one hacker is taking a different approach, and using a standard netbook battery as a charger for [...]

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Forget adding power to your netbook, use a netbook battery to power everythng

27Jul Acer Aspire One hack: Adding a Broadcom HD video accelerator

Most netbooks with Intel Atom processors and integrated GMA950 graphics can handle 720p HD video. But try playing a 1080p clip and you’re in for a choppy, sluggish, battery-killing experience. Two companies have solutions for that. NVIDIA’s ION platform bundles the Atom processor with a higher performance GeForce 9400M graphics processor. Not only do you [...]

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Acer Aspire One hack: Adding a Broadcom HD video accelerator