Friday, 18. September 2009. 10:07 von 4-HTECHWIZARDS.ORG
Many people admire the portability of netbooks, but not in two models are exactly alike, and each representing a different trade-offs. System very portable computer’s battery may be a horrible keyboard arrangement, the model solid-state drive can be absent from the price range, or killer unit information may be missing 802 11n connection. All of these are common problems, but they do not have common solutions.
Because of their diversity, the netbooks do not share a standard way to update your typical desktop PCs do. Each model is unique in what you can do it, and the procedures are as varied as netbooks itself. If you plan to upgrade your machine, you need to hunt or manual – if it is harder for updates – the user base to guide the process. That said, any netbook hack ranging from a five-minute routines soldering-gun-based cuts. The following seven hacks for dell E1505 One-tweakable netbooks we have come across. The first three easily hacked, and the other four are intermediate products. While your mileage (and procedures) will depend on its own netbook model, this guide should give you a good idea of what kind of updates that are available (and appropriate) for your machine and the skill level.
1. Set a better battery
PC World’s Test Dell Inspiron E1505 battery remained at about 3 hours, 34 minutes. It’s not too shabby four-cell battery, but you can do better. While you may find a few guides online that describe how to create a laptop battery on the secondary market through a number of batteries wired together, that the method is destructive
Instead, we found a Nine-cell, 6600mAh battery udtek. com, which is fully compatible with existing connections (and size) and the Dell E1505. At $ 191 it was certainly not cheap, and if you’re ready to order offshore you can do a lot more U.S. $ 69 99 udtek battery. com, who ship worldwide. With the nine cell battery, you can double the longevity of your netbook – if you have not bothered to stick around the hulking mass of it. You can change the battery, just turn your netbook upside down, move, two moves to open the lock icon on the icon and then press up the battery compartment. 2. Update your operating system
If you want to install a new operating system onto your netbook, you really can not: you just pop the CD USB external optical drive and install away.
Do you want to dual-boot your netbook? Grasp the GParted utility to download. iso file to the Live at udtek. com and then burn the file to disk. Put the disc of the external optical drive, restart the netbook, and enter the BIOS to change the boot settings on your computer. Boot from the first optical CD and GParted loads. Right-click the primary partition and select Resize / Move. Microsoft recommends that you have at least 16 GB of space for Windows 7, if you wanted to use it as a netbook OS, but you have too little space, the experiment ends here. For OS, if the netbook is not room for it, write the new partition size you choose. Click Change and you will see the unallocated space sits on the right side of the primary partition in GParted graphic. Right click on the field, and select New. Write zeros “Free Space Progress” and “after” Select the primary partition in the “Create as” and then click the Add button.
If you do not want to use an external optical drive, you can follow the same steps, using GParted, and you install a new operating system with a simple USB thumb drive.
3. Arrange the keyboard
Is your laptop keyboard layout default conflict muscle memory you’ve built desktop keyboard? You can pop off your offensive key netbook is wedging a small screwdriver under the key and gently apply upward pressure. As long as the buttons are swapped are the same size, you can change them as you want.
Dell Inspiron E1505 Keyboard
Once you’ve made physical changes, use the Sharp Keys utility (udtek. com) to reassign the operating system suitable interpretations of key presses. Alternatively, if you do not mind a bit visual clutter, you can leave the physical keys exactly where they are and use this application for assistance in re-mission.
4. Replace the hard disk
Worse: underwhelming capacity of the typical solid-state drive inside the brand new netbook, or the difference in price you have to pay to get a bigger role in their own netbook ready to build? Here is the opposite of these nightmares. First of all, when you build your own netbook is the manufacturer’s website, select the lowest-ROM drive, available (or if you do not have options to buy netbook as it is). Next, consult the user forums (see “More Resources” on page 85) to get a clearer sense of a secondary market for solid state or a magnetic hard disk drives are compatible with your device. Finally, take a screwdriver.
For Dell E1505, turn the netbook over and remove the two screws that secure the rear panel of the great place (as it is in the middle, it is hard to miss). Pry off the panel with your finger or the tip of a screwdriver. Dell E1505 with battery in the north, you make four copies of e inside the machine, which are the hard disk, memory, network, and subscribe to the 3G card (if you bought the E1505, it is Vodafone 3G card). You should see a couple of screws on the small flash memory circuit board in place and the upper-left quarter. Remove them, and the SSD should be lifted. Pull it out, add it to the replacement, and tighten the screws.
5. Upgrade RAM
Memory is one of the main areas where the netbook system, manufacturers can increase their profit margin. Do not let the netbook maker to empty your wallet by selling you RAM that you can find a lot less elsewhere. In the case of E1505, we bought a minimum amount of RAM that we need to complete the configuration: 512MB. If you want to upgrade memory, you first open your netbook back and look for more memory. E1505 is, it is the top right corner of the battery (with the north direction).
Is a RAM module, you should see its details. You can either buy the same type of RAM larger (in our case, 2GB DDR2 SODIMM stick running at 533MHz) or check the manufacturer’s information on your netbook to find its maximum supported speed. The difference between DDR2-4200 and DDR2-5300 memory is almost unnoticeable, but there is no point maxing out of the DDR2-6400 memory, if the netbook can not support it at full speed.
You can change the memory, press out the two clips holding RAM in place near the notched groove on each side. RAM will rise up towards you for removal. Insert a new memory card and slide it into place. When you start the machine, quickly press the appropriate key to access the BIOS (for the Dell Mini 9, it is a 2-button). The main direction of the tab and make sure that the system recognizes the new memory.
6. Update your Wi-Fi
Upgrade internal Wi-Fi features from 802 netbook 11g and 802 11n sounds like it would be easy. In theory, you simply buy a miniature wireless card, pop off the back of a netbook, shuffle its parts, and start to enjoy additional functionality and speed of the new card.
Unfortunately, in reality it is not that simple. Just because Wi-Fi card, it seems like it fits your netbook, it does not mean the card is compatible with the netbook’s OS / motherboard combination. But before that, you have to deal with size. When you buy a new Wi-Fi card, you must know whether the netbook can not support full-height or half-height card. Remove from behind the netbook, and search the current Wi-Fi card. Plenary High card is long and rectangular, similar in format SD Card camera. Semi High Card stubbier and recalls the form of Compact Flash card.
What particular brand of card is not an absolute rule for determining what is compatible with your netbook model. Card, which looks perfect on paper does not necessarily work for your device settings. Instead of using trial and error, search the internet for stories of other successful Wi-Fi updates at the same netbook model. It is the best way to improve the odds that the card selection actually works.
Once you’ve cleared that obstacle, installation card is easy. On Dell E1505, for example, by removing the back cover of the netbook. Wi-Fi card is in the center-right system, the card is white and black wires (antenna) running through it. Carefully disconnect these cables, remove the screws and remove the card from the slot. Insert the new card, insert the screws tighten the card into place and connect the two antenna cables – I would note, however, that seem to buy a special card, you should turn the wires compared to the original position on the memory card. Depending on the size of the card and the motherboard’s configuration, you may need to remove the motherboard standoff to allow the fixed condition.
If the operating system can not find the new card the next reboot, install the drivers in particular Wi-Fi card was purchased. You should be able to find drivers for the company’s website, if not, you may need to install a third of a third party netbook manufacturer whose product is based on the same network.
7. CPU overclock
Overclocking represents a peak in system upgrades for the average user can do without physically deconstructing netbook. It is also one of the more dangerous Updates netbooks, because these small systems are not in the best cooling systems. In the case of Dell E1505, a passive radiator to protect the CPU Overload protection is not responsible for spectrum adjustment, and it is probably the best, but we found a way to overclock a tiny PC.
Other netbooks are a bit more flexible in this relationship. Owners of Dell E1505 netbooks can accelerate their central unit via SetFSB utility. Users of previous Asus Eee PC models can pick up Eeectl utility that allows them to alter MHz within Windows, and thus speed up the processor. If you have an MSI Wind and want to update the BIOS, you’ll notice that MSI officially support overclocking its own way. Yet, these waters require careful navigation (or strict avoidance), you will not wreck your netbook and condemn its inglorious end.