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• South Australia unveils $70m laptop program for high school students

  The South Australian government has detailed a $70-million, five-year Laptops for Students program.

• Chromebooks beat Mac notebooks 1.4-to-1 in U.S.

  Chromebooks have sold primarily to educational organizations, particularly K-12 schools, because of their low price and easy manageability.

• Laptops, tablets could pack more DDR4 memory with Samsung breakthrough

  Samsung wants to cram faster and more power-efficient DDR4 DRAM in laptops and hybrids with new memory chips it introduced on Monday.

• Google has doubled its bounty for a Chromebook hack to $US100,000

  Google doubled the bounty it will pay for a successful exploit of its Chromebook laptop to US$100,000, sweetening the pot in hopes of drawing more attention from security researchers.

• Expensive gaming desktops and laptops thrive in slumping PC market

  In a declining PC market, high-priced gaming desktops and laptops are thriving.

• Laptop not charging

  Reader Bballgurl84life's laptop battery isn't charging.

• Laptop tips: Add RAM, recycle a hard drive

  It's been almost a year since I served up some nice, hot laptop tips--and that's inexcusable. I'll make it up to you this week with some useful advice on adding memory to a laptop, turning an old laptop hard disc into an external drive, and using your laptop's power settings effectively.

• Caring for your laptop

  You're more likely to damage a laptop than a desktop PC (no one has ever driven off, forgetting the desktop on top of their car), and once damaged, laptops are harder and more expensive to repair.
  

• Your old computer, born again

  They're collecting dust in storage rooms and taking up extra space in your garage or office. They can't handle today's applications, peripherals or operating systems. Yes, older computers are a nuisance, like the brother-in-law who sleeps on your sofa for a few months.

• BYOD is as entrenched (and complicated) as ever

  The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has been around for years now, and even though it's become a fixture at many companies, some IT shops are still grappling with how to make it work.

• Boost that battery: Tips and tricks for laptops

  All laptops run on batteries and all batteries eventually run out -- especially when you use your device throughout the day. Here are some tips to help keep it going.

• Should you get a hybrid laptop? A user report card

  Hybrids -- laptops whose displays detach to become tablets -- were designed to allow users to have one device with many uses. But do they work as advertised? We talked to some users to find out.

• Power to the portable: 3 high-performance mobile workstations

  When you're running a large-scale simulation or editing a professional video, you need more computing power than most laptops can give. In this roundup, we review three high-powered Windows mobile workstations.

• Dell's Chromebook is a sign of shakier times for Windows

  Dell's debut of a Chromebook, an inexpensive laptop that runs Google's browser-based Chrome OS, is a sign that the platform has gone mainstream, an analyst argued today.

Whitepapers about laptops

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  Optimised learning in corporate classrooms

  Students attending Dell™ Global Learning & Development (GL&D) technical support classes needed fresh system images, but manual delivery took hours between classes and over weekends. Dell deployed its own cloud client computing solution to enable one IT support person to re-image and reboot the thin clients and laptops in its GL&D classrooms with just a few mouse clicks.