TECHdodo

I wrote a post about how netbooks were good enough for many and that I thought they would be around for awhile. It was inspired by a post at TechCrunch about how they felt netbooks just weren’t good enough. I felt it depended on what “good enough” meant, and that for many, netbooks would meet [...]

I wanted to see how DVD playback worked on the lt2005u netbook I recently purchased. I don’t have an external USB dvd drive to test it out with, so what I did was share the DVD drive of my desktop PC over my home network. Then, I stuck in a DVD and tried to play [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post, I bought the Gateway lt2005u netbook at Best Buy three days ago. My kids have been using it a lot since then, but I finally have a little time where I have access to it, so I decided to try booting it with Linux to see how hard [...]

It has been a long time since I had to backup a DVD. Last week, the need to do so came up. The last time I did it, it was through the use of several applications in Windows that I had installed. One was for ripping, one was for shrinking it so it would fit [...]

I saw that today Wal-mart was having a pre Black Friday sale on a 10″ Acer netbook for $199. I haven’t been keeping track of Black Friday deals this year, but I have been keeping somewhat up to date on netbook prices, and it was only a couple of weeks ago that I thought about [...]