Laptop Reliability Ratings: Which Laptop is Really Most Reliable?

by Matthew Smith on May 7, 2010

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When I wrote the Smidgen PC laptop brand guide one of the issues which I touched upon was the overall reliability of the laptop brands as based on several sources of data. Today I want to take a closer look at overall laptop reliability in order to answer some common but typically unanswered questions. The main source [...]

The Best Laptop Brands: A Comprehensive Review

by Matthew Smith on April 23, 2010

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What’s the best laptop brand? That is actually a very hard question to answer. While there are many detailed reviews of laptops, these can only cover the most immediate questions such as performance and design. Other important issues, like customer service and reliability, cannot be covered in the scope of a product review. This makes [...]

Slimbrowser (Review) – A Feature Filled Free Alternative Web Browser

by Matthew Smith 02.18.2011

Web browsers are tricky. There are a lot of them available besides the big three (those being IE, Chrome and Firefox, of course) but many are lacking. Usually the problem is not bugs or a bad interface, but rather a lack of features that define them from the most popular options. Indeed, many alternative web [...]

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Large-Screen Netbooks: An Upcoming Netbook Trend?

by Matthew Smith 02.14.2011

The term netbook has always been a bit nebulous, but one of the most concrete ways of determining if something is a netbook has been the size. The Atom processor used to power virtually all netbooks has always been found in smaller laptops. That’s not a coincidence, or because of any so-called market reality. The reason [...]

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The 3 Best Touchscreen PCs

by Matthew Smith 02.07.2011

Is touch the way of the future? Partially. I don’t think that the old fashioned keyboard and mouse is going to go anywhere soon, but touch-screens offer an alternative way to interact with our computers that has unique advantages and disadvantages. I wouldn’t want to type a term paper on a touch-screen virtual keyboard, but [...]

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Say Hello to Rift Clerics . NET

by Matthew Smith 01.31.2011

Up until now, Smidgen PC has been my only blog. It’s been humming along nicely, averaging around 15,000 visitors a month. I enjoy it, but I sometimes lack motivation to update this site because it’s heavily intertwined with things that I write about for my various clients. I’ve been thinking about starting a blog connected [...]

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Sandy Bridge Laptop Processors Stun and Amaze

by Matthew Smith 01.28.2011

I’ll let you into a little secret; I’m an AMD fanboy. I like rooting for the underdog, and that’s AMD at the moment. I also think that Intel is a bit of an evil empire; they were bullies back when AMD had truly competitive product, and so now Intel remains an effective monopoly, while AMD [...]

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Still Waiting for the iPad Killers

by Matthew Smith 01.24.2011

CES 2011 was a blast. It was also, however, deeply repetitive of last year and perhaps a bit disappointing, at least in terms of the new technologies shown. The most impressive items were not high-volume consumer products but either hardware, such as the Intel Sandybridge and AMD Fusion chips, or niche concepts, such as Razer’s [...]

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Intel Core i7 640UM Performance Review: Intel Plays Fast and Loose with TURBO BOOST!!!

by Matthew Smith 11.19.2010

One of the many websites I write for is PC Perspective, a computer hardware site for which I often times write laptop reviews. Recently I had the chance to throughly test a laptop equipped with a Core i7 640UM processor. I was excited when I first began to fire up the benchmarks because I had [...]

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Nvidia Deathwatch Part 4: The Growing Zacate Problem

by Matthew Smith 11.11.2010

2011 is going to be a big year for x86 processors. It is the year that will see the release of new processor architectures by both Intel and AMD. At a deeper level, these architectures are very different, but the goal of each processor is the same. Both Intel and AMD wanted to improve the [...]

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The Three Best Netbook Bags

by Eli Misel 11.09.2010

This is a guest post by author Eli Misel. Eli is the creator of www.TechLackey.com, a website focused on all things related to technology in today’s society.  If you are looking for ways to mod and hack your favorite electronic devices, be sure to check out his website. Netbooks are quickly becoming the grab and go [...]

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What is the Best Size for a Laptop Screen?

by Matthew Smith 11.04.2010

Laptops come in all shapes and sizes. For the most part, the size of a laptop is determined by the size of the laptop’s display. The reason for this is fairly obvious – a 13 inch display is a 13 inch display, and it can’t be miniaturized or changed without being a smaller display! The size of [...]

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