Boost Your Netbook Or Laptop Performance

diy-computer-repairs-boost-netbookDiy Computer Repairs shows you how to give your netbooks a performance boost.  As netbooks are increasingly overtaking laptops as portable working machines, it is lighter  than notebooks and less bulky.  Another factor that makes netbooks popular amongst people is the lower price tag.  For more tech savy parents, it is a assurance that their children will never be able to use it for gaming as it is a lot more scaled down in terms of CPU and graphics as compared to notebooks.

But there’s no need to dispair, as all is not lost if you think that you are stuck with a lousy computer all your life.  Applying the tweaks below for added boost.

1) Max the Rams to 2 gig .

Since most netbooks don’t come with extra ram slots, so it would make no sense to wait for the upgrade later.  Trade in the original rams, if possible and get bigger ones at a lower price if possible.

2) Buy an external drive

With the newer usb 2.0 technology, external drives are no longer slower and inferior to internal drives.  Who says netbooks cannot burn CDs?

3) Use windows XP

Windows Vista is resource hungry and netbooks do not have powerful CPU’s like duo core to handle it.  The good news is that the new windows 7 is coming soon in 22nd of oct 2009 and it is a fine tuned vista that you can use in netbooks

4) Get a larger battery

The standard 3 cell battery will only give you 2 hours of working time, there’s actually 6 cells type that allows twice the amount of usage.

5) Clean up the start up programs.

This is no new amazing knowledge as most windows users know that you can stop or reduce the number of programs to run on start by going to start and clicking on run or [ Press the ” Windows Key ” + “R” ].  Type msconfig and look at the start up tab.  Uncheck those less important programs.

6) Enable write caching on disk.

Go to start, then control panel, then system.  Click on the components [ device manager ].  Click on disk drives and right click on your hard drive’s name.  Choose properties, then click on the Policies tab and tick ” enable write caching ” on the disk. This will help to optimize performance.

7) Switch to solid state drive

Flash based solid state drives ( SSDs) run a lot faster than disk drives and you will experience boosts in running applications. Unfortunately, these drives cost a bomb currently, but watch out for them when they go down slowly.

8 ) Add a mouse.

Using the touch pad on the netbook slows down productivity.  There’s a lot of choices of laptop mouse that can be folded for easy storage with some models are magnetic and can be sticked on the laptop when you are on the move.

9) Boost your graphics performance

Most of the netbooks come with Intel’s integrated graphics which are weak in games.  Download GMABooster (www.gmabooster.com) and install it and it will up your performance by 2.5 times.  Not something to brag about but better than nothing.

10) Get a good netbook

Currently, Asus has included a new comer to the netbook competition that comes with a 9300M GS video card in an Atom CPU machine.  However, it has only a max supported ram of 1 gig.  It is an Asus N10Jc