Nov 04

Recommendations For Upgrading Toshiba Notebook Parts

Everything mechanical, or electronic, breaks down and nearly every computer made is expandable.  This is also true of your Toshiba notebook but to be honest, as far as notebook technology has progressed, it is still not a great idea for you to go poking around in your notebook unless you really know what you are doing.    But there are some upgrades you can do yourself and there are some repairs that can easily done for you by a technician using either generic replacement parts or Toshiba notebook parts.  Then there are the things that look like they cannot be fixed but can be fixed using only Toshiba notebook parts.Then there is the fatal stuff.

Lets examine some circumstances to determine if your laptop is completely gone or if you can use Toshiba notebook parts to fix it.

Upgrades

Most notebook computers allow for upgrades.  Consult your manual to see what kinds of upgrades your Toshiba notebook allows.  Usually you can upgrade memory and hard drive capacity but once again I would have a professional do it unless you really know what you are doing.

Most hard drive manufactures will be compatible with your laptop although if your doing a memory upgrade or repair you should stick Toshiba notebook parts.  You should be able to determine compatibility by going on line or checking your manual.

Notebook screens are not upgradeable.  You would need a whole new notebook for that which, for some reason, is really difficult to get some people to understand.  Trust me, you cannot upgrade your screen to a 17″ screen in your existing notebook.

Dead notebook

Even though notebooks are much more durable than they used to be, dropping a laptop that is not protected by some sort of case my due serious damage to Toshiba notebook parts and circuits.  Dropping the notebook in water may be fatal.

Stuff That Can Be Fixed

Even thought notebook screens cannot be upgraded they can be repaired.  A bad battery and also the main power supply can be replaced as well.

The DVD drive and CD-Rom can be replaced or upgraded using Toshiba notebook parts.

More info on notebooks can be found here Colored Apple Laptops

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Nov 04

smallest laptop

Have you ever thought about networking your cheap laptop computers at home? If you have a small collection of computers around the house (and a small collection of computer users), you can connect each one of those computers to one another and share data, software, and hardware including a single Internet connection. There are many creative uses for home networking, however it’s an ideal situation when upgrading each computer to the same capability is financially out of the question. On a home network, each computer has access to the equipment of the better machine in the group as if that equipment were their own.

Connecting computers with either an Ethernet cable or a Wireless connection can create a home network. The easiest and cheapest method uses an Ethernet connection, which requires a series of network cards, a cable for each computer, and a router. A network card is used to communicate with every connected computer in the network.

You’ll want to first, select the computers that will connect to each other and then install the network cards inside each of them. Then you’ll connect a cable to each cheap powerful laptop computers that will communicate with the server. These cables won’t connect to the server directly. Instead, they’ll connect to the router. To enable Internet access for each computer, this router will need to connect with a modem of the host machine.

You can set up the Windows network on each machine once the hardware is setup correctly. Windows allows you to setup an Internet connection similar to that of a home network. Only this time, you’ll set up a LAN (Local Area Network) connection.

Windows should walk you through setting up a LAN after starting the computer and once complete, you can begin to connect one of your machines to the network. You can do this through Internet Explorer by typing in the address and password required to access the router (the address and password required to access the router will be in the router manual).

Connected to the network, each computer can send files back and forth, open programs on a remote computer, play the sound files and videos located on another computer, and share a single Internet account to browse the web, download files, or chat with someone in an entirely different country.  If a single printer is available on only one computer in the network, every connected PC can send documents to it and print them out. Kids will enjoy the ability to play multi-player games and adults will enjoy the ability to blast a single message to everyone at once or maintain a group schedule.

It’s really advisable at this point to install a firewall application to combat worms, viruses and hacking attempts. Firewalls are a preventative measure - they do not repair. Only anti-virus and anti-spyware programs can reverse damage. So you should install a firewall on the computer that grants access to the computer, and then install an anti-virus and anti-spyware program on each of the remaining computers in the network.

If you have files that shouldn’t be shared (bank statements, credit card information, etc.), you can restrict their access in one of several ways. You can put them in a new folder and then remove the “read” permissions for that folder. Or you can specify who can (and who cannot) access specific files with a password from within Windows Control Panel.

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