Gradual Panic!

So do you have an old netbook lying around that needs a new lease of life? Now you may have heard of Cloud operating systems that run in a browser and do everything in the cloud which means that a low power PC can do a lot more. Now this may not be everyone’s cup of tea as their prime computing experience but if you think about it terms of a tablet such as the iPad then you may be intrigued. Basically my iPad sits next to me on the sofa when I’m watching the box. If I quickly want to check something online or look at my email I simply pick up my iPad which turns on instantly allowing me to get stuff done and then just put it back down again. Well if you’re not in the market for a tablet or they are way out of your budget then how about a netbook that acts pretty much the same? Then why not try JoliCloud?

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If you’re an early netbook adopter and it’s one of those with a miniscule solid state hard drive pre-installed with some dodgy Linux distro you may have thought of moving up to XP. But you may have found that XP doesn’t run too fast. This is to do with the lame read/write speeds on some SSDs. I’ve had the same problem on my daughters netbook but tonight I solved it. Download and install FlashFire an app for improving the read/write speed on these early machines. As soon I’d done the deed all was fine and dandy.