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If you’re a businessman on-the-go or a college student, it’s more convenient to have a laptop with you rather than a desktop PC. For an easy-to-use and efficient laptop, cast your eyes on the HP 550 Notebook PC FW385AT. This notebook comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5270 1.40GHz processor, 160GB hard drive and can support up to 4GB of DDR2 667MHz memory.
Its 15.4-inch display with 1280 x 800 resolution provides a widescreen view to explore the Web or watch a selection of your favorite DVDs. Burn your DVDs on the DVD+/-RW SuperMulti DL LightScribe Drive and get your multimedia files running in an instant! Other features include 3 USB 2.0 ports, 802.11a/b/g wireless connectivity, high definition audio and a HP Backup and Recovery Manager program to restore any lost files.
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Vista & The Windows XP Professional Downgrade Rights?
What Does This Really Mean?
Many desktop and notebook computers are shipped with Microsoft Windows Vista
Business, but come with the Downgrade Right to Microsoft Windows XP
Professional included. What this means is that the system comes
preinstalled with Microsoft Windows Vista Business (it includes Windows
Vista media, and Windows XP Professional).
To use the provided Windows Vista Business,
or to use the Downgrade Right to Microsoft Windows XP Professional, simply
start the system and follow the provided instructions. On select
systems, you may have the option of starting the system with XP, and on
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Keep It
Private!
3M Privacy
Filters Help You Comply with Federal Confidentiality Laws
3M Privacy Computer Filters help companies comply with federal legislation
requiring confidential personal information be kept confidential. 3M Privacy
Computer filters can help medical facilities (i.e. hospitals, clinics,
health insurance companies, etc.) comply with the Health Insurance Portability
& Accessibility Act (HIPAA). The privacy filters are a simple accessory
to desktop monitors, both LCD and CRT, as well as laptop computers. They
darken the viewable area of the monitor screen when viewed from the side,
which helps prevent the release of confidential personal information that
must be protected. Similar legislation exists for those in the financial
industry. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) places the same restrictions on banks,
finance companies, mortgage companies and credit card companies, to name
a few. They even help with PCI & SOX!
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Here to See all our 3M Privacy Filters »
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 LightScribe Technology
Bringing Your CDs
and DVDs to Life!
No doubt you’ve labeled your CD and DVD collections with magic markers or
sticky adhesive labels that tend to fray and peel. No matter how neat you
are, this labeling technique lacks the professional feel you get from
pre-produced disks. And it’s certainly not a system that adequately reflects
the great quality video and music you’ve painstakingly collected over the
years. Thanks to LightScribe Technology those ragtag days of sloppy looking
labels are over. Now you can create customized, professional-looking labels
using the same laser that burns your data-right inside your CD/DVD drive!
And it’s all incredibly simple to do with LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling
technology.It's easy to burn a label with LightScribe. Follow
these short steps to start burning right away. Remember, making labels
and burning your data are two separate steps. You may burn your data either
before or after you burn your label.
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Make sure you have a LightScribe-enabled disc drive. Just look for the
LightScribe logo on the outside of your drive or somewhere on your computer.
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Get your LightScribe media. Look for the LightScribe logo on the CD and
DVD packages at your favorite retailers. Regular CDs and DVDs can not be
Lightscribe labeled.
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already be pre-installed on new PCs). Use the install CD that came bundled
with your hardware or purchase
label-burning
software here »
In addition to label-making software, you'll need LightScribe System
Software. Each hardware manufacturer will provide the optimal version for
their systems, but universal versions are also available in our Downloads
section for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. In some cases, the
LightScribe System Software is included in the labeling application.
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What is ExpressCard™ technology?
ExpressCard technology is the name
of a new standard introduced by PCMCIA in spring 2003. The ExpressCard
standard delivers thinner, faster and lighter modular expansion to desktop
and notebook computer users. Consumers can add hardware capabilities such as
memory, wired and wireless communications cards and security devices by
simply inserting these modules into their systems. All ExpressCard slots
accommodate modules designed to use either Universal Serial Bus (USB*) 2.0,
or the emerging PCI*Express standards.
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Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes
are witnessing an explosion in the volume of data they hold. Whether it is
the result of the Internet, email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich
application software, there is a massive growth in the volume of data all
around. Conservative estimates place data growth at approximately 80% per
year. Data is increasingly being recognized as one of the real assets of a
company, and losing this data would cause severe damage to any organization.
Data loss can be very costly, particularly for
organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the
difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover
from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a financial
impact on companies of all sizes:
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The financial impact on a company is a combination
of loss of business, low productivity, legal action, and the cost of
re-creating data. A study showed that the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of
data can be extensive!
Your best solution, is an external drive as a
backup. You can have multiple drives, and it is much easier restore
from a portable external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs.
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With ever increasing hard drive sizes, how do you protect your valuable
data? CDs are only 720+ MBs, and even DVDs are limited to a few
Gigabytes. So what do you do to back up hundreds of Gigabytes? Here
are some great and inexpensive options:
- High Capacity USB Thumb Drives:
USB Thumb Drives are now
available in sizes as large as 64GB (soon to be even more). While
the USB interface is somewhat slow, these make an ideal solution for their
small compact size. Thumb drives are perfect for storing in files,
or other compact spaces. While their cost per GB is somewhat high,
their convenience, USB interface, size, and extremely light weight, make
them a very attractive option.
Click Here for
32GB Thumb Drives or for
64GB+ Thumb Drives
- External Hard Drives
Now you have a wide variety of
options for external hard drives. 1TB (Terabyte) External Drives are
now available for less than $200.00. External drives come in a wide
range of sizes, speeds, and interfaces. They are available with USB
(the slowest), Firewire (medium speed), and SATA/eSATA (the fastest).
When selecting an external drive, it is important to consider how you will
use the drive, and the interface limitations of your computer. If
you have a laptop that only has USB ports, this would be your best
(possibly only) option. If you have USB & Firewire, get a drive that
has Firewire for the performance boost. If your system has a SATA or
eSata port, get a drive with this option - it will give you true hard
drive to hard drive performance.
However, also consider where you might need to restore the data. USB
is the most universal, in that almost all systems have USB ports. If
your system dies, and you need to restore your data, this may be your most
important consideration.
One last consideration is to keep your backup drive continuously
connected, or only connect it during backups. The general idea of
backups is to have a copy of your data in case your system fails - which
they do. But you may also want secure protected backups in a safe or
safe deposit box. Regardless, external hard drives offer an
outstanding solution for backing up your data, and the cost per GB is
quite low.
Click Here for External
USB/Firewire Hard Drives
- Hard Drive Docks (Toasters)
An incredibly simple, yet
functional new product category emerged in 2008: Hard Drive Toasters (Hard Drive
Docks). This device lets you plug in regular internal hard drives as
though they were pop-in flash drives. You drop in your hard drive,
and the dock instantly gives your system access to that drive, without
wiring, or power connections - it's all done by the hard drive toaster.
This way you can use any compatible hard drive as an external removable
hard drive for backup purposes!
Click Here for Hard Drive Docks
- Online Backup
Still another option is to use an
online backup service. These come in two forms:
• Backup to another computer over the Internet
• Backup to a central server using the Internet
The first of these can work very well, and automatically backups when you
are online. The Microsoft OneCare service is one example. It
can backup your data from your system to another in your OneCare account
across the Internet automatically, regardless of where you are.
The second involves trusting your critical data to someone else's servers,
and usually no real guarantee that your data will always be there.
If they loose your data, they just refund your fee. This service may
be fine for a couple of letters, but business critical data needs to be
accessible forever. For this reason, you are better advised to look
to a hardware solution that you control.
- Backup Software
Many products come with backup
software included, such as External Hard Drives, and Antivirus products
like
CA Security Suite. Most offer excellent features for automated
backups. But remember, backup software and devices, are only as good
as your willingness to use them! So backup regularly, and backup often.
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