Next month the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds is coming. It’s a 17-inch screened, Intel Core 2 Quad’ed, 980GB hard drive’d beast. But what makes it worth $3,600? See that thing sticking out from the right? You guessed it, that’s another screen. You may asking yourself “Is that a dual-screen laptop?” You are correct. Also note the...

For those of you out there that run a dual-boot system with Windows XP and Ubuntu, you’ve noticed that Ubuntu is the default OS that loads on each system startup. There is a way to change this so that XP is the default OS instead. Full documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto/ChangeDefaultOS What that documentation instructs you to...

For those with multi-monitor setups running Windows XP, you’ve probably run into the situation where whenever you launch a specific application it launches on the "wrong monitor". Sure, a reboot is a quick fix for this but you obviously don’t want to do this every time you want program windows to appear in their proper places. Saving your...

Hardware recognition in Linux can come a long, long way. And unless you have a computer that has proprietary hardware (meaning "Windows only" supported), it’s a good bet that if you try out a Linux distribution, everything in your computer box will be supported without issue. Something that’s always bothered me – as will as many...