thanks to BG and Enicomb, just need to find a Windows CD now.

Will that actually increase a Netbook's web browsing speed? I ask because i was once told, and i cant recall where, that once you pass 1GB of RAM the speed of web browsing will only change a negligable amount.

I've just brought my daughter a cheapish Netbook from America and it's rather slow for web browsing despite excellent broadband signal in our property. It only has 1GB of RAM, is it actually worth increasing, then?

Yes, you've got the operation system, the graphics and any software running to come off that RAM, an extra boost to 2GB is the best upgrade, once you are over that 2GB you wouldn't see much of a boost to browsing speed.

Anyone got Apple TV? Thinking of buying one. Is it worth the money?

Tried it and you'd be better off buying something like a Cyclone media player, far more flexible in what it will play.

I think it depends what most of your stuff is encoded in. If it is mostly MPEG-4, H.264 etc. then support for some of other formats won't matter. And if you want to rent movies, then the cyclone doesn't appear to offer much of a solution for that.

Anyway, if you want an Apple TV I would advise you to wait. Apple will do one based on the A5 (that's the System on a Chip in iPad 2) which will support 1080p.

Anybody know how to transfer images from PowerPoint and post them onto these forums? It's a print screen so It doesn't have a URL link to place to a web page.

You need to save it as a file and then upload it to an image hosting site so that you can link to it.

Ah right okay thanks.

If anyone has a Kindle 3g and likes to browse RLFans but hates the time taken to load the graphics on the basic web browser, use the m.rlfans.com site. It loads almost immediately and makes the reading experience heaps better. I try to load every site with the prefix 'm' and see if it works. IMDb also has an excellent mobile site, as does the BBC .. loads cleaner.

The browser on the Kindle is awful. Or have they updated it recently? I got my Kindle about a year ago and it's horrendous as a browsing experience. Everytime you move the screen it flashes on and off as it redraws the content.

cheers

Hi guys,

I have an acer aspire 5920 with windows vista home premium on it. Recently I've been having a lot of difficulty with it. Everytime I try to log on, it starts to load the desktop then just completely stops and crashes. No mouse movement, no saving grace from the ctrl-alt-del, nothing. I don't know a lot about the technicallities of laptops, and I really am stumped as to what to do. I managed to run a full scan and it didn't come up with any virus problems, but now can't run anything else and would like to try de-fragging it.

Any help (if it's possible) would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Boot up in safe mode (F8 on boot), it will load just the basics. Does it freeze then? If not I'd recommend you run Malware Bytes and check your start up items (msconfig).

Thanks it hasn't frozen and managed to get on msconfig... What are the requirements for a basic start up? There are about 33 programs running according to the start up tab on msconfig