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From one of the fastest growing companies in the world, Dell is slowly losing its grip at the top.  Taiwan-based PC maker Acer has managed to supplant the Round Rock-based company as the second-largest PC builder in the world.

According to the third quarterly report by iSuppli, Acer has jumped over Dell to second spot with their computer shipments up with a 16.6 percent year-on-year growth. This is equal to almost 10.74 million PCs or 13.4 percent of the worldwide market of 79.9 million units. continue reading…

As the saying goes, ‘small is beautiful.’

Netbooks are usually serious affairs (like word processing or web browsing) as there’s not much space for anything else. Because of their size and weight, these devices are not known for their graphic chips and processing power.

Fortunately, Joe Rybicki of Liliputing.com pointed out that you can still have fun with a netbook that has a 1.6 GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and no dedicated video card. continue reading…

Worried that the stored data on your computer would be compromised? With Google’s highly-anticipated operating system (OS), users have now less to worry about.

Google Chrome OS, a lightweight, cloud-based OS for netbooks, will not have the usual hard disk drive installs; instead, everything would be Internet-based. It will rely on non-volatile flash memory and Internet-based storage for saving data.

According to technology and gadgets website PC World, Chrome OS is taking security in a whole new level. continue reading…

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How reliable is your laptop? That’s the question posed in a study by warranty company Square Trade as it looked at the three-year service histories of more than 30,000 laptops. The results? Smaller name brands took the top slots while expected giant HP was languishing at the bottom.

In its survey, Square Trade noted that of the top nine companies, the top two—Asus and Toshiba—had the lowest tracked breakdown rate as compared to Dell, Lenovo, Acer and HP.

Asus specifically had fewer than ten percent of notebook failures in the past two years. Meanwhile, Toshiba, Sony, and Apple had better-than-average performance. continue reading…