HP Fast Charge

When you don't have to worry about how your laptop works, you can shift your focus to how you work. Ease-of-Use Innovations from HP help you complete your day-to-day tasks with more simplicity and less effort.

Picture the situation. You are doing a presentation outside in 2 hours time but you forgot to charge your laptop, and you have been using it all morning. The charge is sitting at 15% and you need at least 90% charge for your presentation. What do you do?

This is where HP Fast Charge comes to the rescue. With this technology that is built into most HP laptops, you will be able to charge your laptop to up to 90% charge in about 90 minutes when charging with your laptop off.

HP Pavilion DM3 Series

Below is an introduction video to the HP Pavilion DM3 Series of home entertainment notebooks. Take a look at the HP Pavilion dm3-1040ei Entertainment Notebook PC (VJ275EA)

Please note: Not all the features in the video are available in every model of the DM3 Series. Please check the specs of the model you are interested in.

The support you need to stay up and running.

Did you know that you can lengthen the warranty on various HP products? By simply purchasing a care pack you can upgrade or extend the warranty of certain HP products.

These HP care packs reduce downtime risks with support levels from basic to mission critical. They also cover all the IT products your business relies on such as desktops, mobile computing, printing and imaging.

There are many different variations of these care packs so visit this page for more info.

HP 3D DriveGuard

When your notebook computer gets bumped against a doorway or dropped a short distance, there’s a lot more at stake than the hardware itself. If the computer is running, an everyday incident like this could damage your hard drive and cause you to lose the data on it. When a hard drive fails, everything stops. You could potentially lose thousands of rands to downtime, lost productivity and data recovery efforts. That’s why you need HP 3D DriveGuard, available on most Standard, Business, Professional, workstation and mini-note series HP Business notebooks.

HP 3D DriveGuard mitigates the risk of hard drive failure by protecting against short drops, rough handling, excessive vibration and other everyday wear and tear. With this HP Professional innovation, your critical information is not only better protected, but is more easily protected, whenever you’re on the move.

HP 3D DriveGuard’s protection policies provide an enhanced level of protection at all times:
- Ready state for stationary protection your HP business notebook is routinely in a ready state of protection when the lid is open and you are working on a plane, train or some other place. In this state, HP 3D DriveGuard will automatically park the hard drive head if the notebook experiences a sudden movement, a drop or some other significant change in its physical state.
- Enhanced state for moving about when you’re on the move with the lid closed on your business notebook, HP 3D DriveGuard shifts into an enhanced state of protection that is sensitive to very small movements. The enhanced state is applied because this is the mostly likely time for the notebook to be bumped, banged or dropped.

HP Original Toner Cartridges

To buy original or not original that is the question? Although the "no name" brand cartridges may work with HP printers, you should be very aware of the below information:

• According to a study conducted by QualityLogic, Original HP monochrome Toner cartridges outperformed remanufactured cartridges in reliability and print quality.
• Non-original toner cartridges do not perform to the same levels as HP original cartridges.
• Remanufactured or "no name" Toner cartridges can fail prematurely and drive up the cost per page and reduce productivity.
• With Original HP print toner cartridges you get greater reliability, higher quality and therefore lower costs!
• 70% of a LaserJet printer's imaging system comes from our HP LaserJet print cartridges.
• The new generation HP ColorSphere toner uses new technology to optimise system performance for a reliable, smooth flow of toner onto the page.

HP History - Part 1

They say that most IT companies start out of a garage. HP is no exception. In 1939 Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard established Hewlett-Packard in Dave's garage with a capital of US$538. To decide on the companies name, the two of them flipped a coin and chose Hewlett-Packard as the name of the company. HP's first product, a precision audio oscillator, was made for the Walt Disney Company, and was used for the sound in the movie Fantasia. In 1940 HP moved out of the garage and into a rented building in Palo Alto.

Speed up with your typing

Bookmark these sites below and practice your typing skills to enhance your PC/Laptop productivity.

1. TypingMaster’s Typing Test
2. TypingWeb’s Free Tutorials
3. Rapid Typing Zone’s TypeDown

Backup your data

This is an excellent tool for keeping your data safe and in reach, anywhere there is an Internet connection. It will allow you to store files and folders online where you can reach them from anywhere and much more!

What is Windows Live Mesh?

In Windows Live Mesh 2011, you can:

Keep your documents, photos, and other files up to date on all your computers

Connect to your computers remotely. Leave your PC online and run its programs or get to all its files from another computer. This is handy for "emergencies" when you might be at work and need a file from home.

Sync your program settings between computers. Keep your Internet Explorer favorites and Microsoft Office settings up to date on all your PCs.

4 reasons to seriously consider buying a netbook

4 reasons to seriously
consider buying
a netbook

Netbooks are the latest craze. They're small, they're portable and they're totally affordable.

People are often sceptical of small, underpowered devices, so here are a few things to consider that might change your mind about the performance of netbooks.

1. Netbooks don't have to be your primary computer

Most people won’t buy a netbook to use as their primary system.

Netbooks appear to be filling a niche for secondary portable computers with the bare minimum of computing hardware.

You can check in at work and do some light-weight computing at meetings, with a platform that offers more flexibility than a smart phone and less overhead than a traditional laptop.

2. They're not underpowered for what they really do

You need to consider netbooks in the light of the activities that people use them for:

1. Sending e-mail

2. Browsing the net

3. Enjoying multimedia

4. Chatting on the go

5. Access, View and Edit Documents

In each of these domains, the netbook handles its job with ease, offering a significant improvement over any smartphone.

3. You can dock

As with any other laptop, netbooks are easily connected to peripherals thanks to standard USB and Ethernet connectivity.

You can bring your netbook home, dock it, and treat it as a secondary system.

If the screen is too small, use a bigger screen.
If you don't like the size and feel of the built-in keyboard, you can use it with a full-sized external USB keyboard and mouse.

You can also network to your primary computer and share its disk resources, scanners, and printers, as well.

4.The price and size appeal is real

While you can argue that the price of regular laptops has plunged over the last few years, the netbook price point remains extremely appealing.

For a few thousand Rand you can walk away with a portable computer that adds to, rather than replaces, your existing computing setup. Should that system fail, it's a lot less expensive to replace.

You don't have to buy special carrying luggage either, nor haul around lots of accessories the way most people do with laptops.

Netbooks can be used more casually and practically tucks into briefcases, handbags, and backpacks with less worry and overhead.

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