Cheaper Than Air!

The MSI X340-023US 13.4-Inch Laptop - Silver is a laptop I recently saw in a magazine for under $800. It was said to be lighter than Air - the Apple MacBook Air. At this price, you can buy two lighter than air laptops for the price of one. It has some very good reviews on Amazon and has a host of features considering the light weight status (2.8 lbs). At this time, it is the world's lightest and slimmest laptop. It is more feature rich than most of the netbooks out now.

The MSI X340-023US 13.4-Inch Laptop includes:

• HDMI audio and video
• Wifi
• Bluetooth
• 1.3 MP Webcam
• 13" display among other features

If I were to need a light weight laptop now, I'd definitely pick this one up. Have you bought a laptop recently? What model did you buy and why? If you have the MSI X340, I'd love to hear your review of this.

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Hibernation Mode

I've found myself using my laptop's Hibernation Mode more and more lately.

In the past, I have used it from time to time. Though never regularly. Now that I use it regularly, I find it to be very handy and it is a time-saver! I use a laptop that is several years old. In today's standard, it is ancient. Though it performs very well, doing what I need it to do, sometimes I find the boot-up process a bit slow (mostly due to applications loading after boot.

Now there are problems to watch out for using hibernation mode. More problems can crop up and memory leaks may become an issue longer term. I find that Hibernation mode works much better in Windows XP than in my machine running Ubuntu.

What about you? Do you use your Hibernation mode? Why do you use it and what benefits do you see from it?

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