Anti-Virus for Notebooks - How Effective Are They?

Time after time you would have read in various PC, IT as well as notebook review magazines the importance as well as effectiveness of anti-virus programmes for your desktops and laptops. But despite this constant "reminder", the IT world still continues to be besieged by hackers as well as numerous online threats.

What online threats are we talking about?

As far as I'm concerned, they basically fall into teo broad categories: those that are created by commercial hackers for the purpose of unauthorised data mining, and those that are used by cyber terrorists for the purpose of essential data retrieval in their ultimate goal to destabalise a targetted country or business or government entity.

Now if we were to focus only on the first category, then the worst scenario that may possibly occur to your system would be a system crash, with the potential of stoeln critical passwords. This situation causes a greater distress especially if it's linked to your online banking acccount.

But if it's about cyber terrorism, then it's a whole different ball game. The damage will involve not only stolen critical data, but will result in a "morphing" of the intended data for the purpose of prolonged cyber attacks against the targetted entity. And it is because of reasons like these, that government organisations all across the globe engage and maintain an internal team of disaster recovery experts, partnered with counter-hackers. Along with this team, a near "bullet-proof" business continuity plan needs to be developed as well.

But what about organisations or individuals that do not have the budget to develope nor hire such plans and expertise? The answer would be to resort to low cost but highly effective anti-virus solutions to combat such potential online threats.

Believe me: anyone who has been hit by such online threats will realise the genuine importance of such anti-virus solutions. It's not worth taking the chance. Especially if you're a mobile user.

Mac Notebooks

Apple Inc. is an American Multinational Corporation founded on the 1st of April 1976 and with their market presence Apple actually blazed the trail in the PC industry. This company designs, manufactures and markets PCs and software accessories, peripherals and networking solutions. Besides the PCs and PC related products, Apple also makes portable digital music players, related accessories and services. One important part of their work remains the remarkably revolutionary Macintosh, also known as the Mac. Apple’s products also include the famous line of Mac desktops and Mac notebooks, the iPod digital music players and many others.

Our interest right now fall on the Mac notebooks.

The Mac notebooks and all their other products and services are sold all over the world through the online stores, company retail stores and other types of sellers. There are different types of Mac notebooks about which you can find information on the Internet on the company’s websites. The details available on the net will enable you to make the right choices when buying your Mac laptop. Thus, you are provided with information regarding the types of Mac notebooks available on the market, their prices and technical data. Moreover, the Apple sites also provide updated reviews by their specialists as well as reviews written by their customers.

From the several Mac notebooks models, let us take a look at the Macbook, the Macbook pro, iBook, iBook G3, iBook G4, and Powerbook G4. The Macbook is the newest of consumer Mac notebooks; it was developed and marketed by Apple Computers and actually introduced in May 2006. As it is the latest in the Mac notebooks series, the Macbook replaces the iBook G4 series and also the last of the PowerBook series, the PowerBook G4. The Macbook is based on the Intel Core Duo processor technology. It is available in some distinct configurations. They include 1.83 GHz, 2.0 GHz both with a white polycarbonate enclosure, and a 2.0 GHz with a matte black case.
Each of the three Mac notebooks mentioned above come with an in-built iSight webcam plus a magnetic latch mechanism. An important aspect in the making of Mac notebooks, and especially in their MacBook Pro, is that the mercury normally used in CCFL back-lights and the arsenic in the glass of traditional LCD displays, have been eliminated. Apple engineers decided to use the LED technology and arsenic-free glass in designing the Mac notebooks. In fact, Apple specialists have done even more than just eliminating these toxic elements from the components of their Mac books. They have actually come up with the same technology free of toxins in the rest of the new Mac book line, the Apple LED Cinema Display, in all their iPods and iPphone 3G designs.

Stay tuned for more reviews!

Best Notebook Reviews

Laptop computer reviews represent a very important source of information for those who are interested in buying a new device meant either to help them in their work or to provide entertainment at home. But being an informed buyer is no easy task for anybody. Even though we may think we are informed enough, we may later, discover that we have been wrong in the decision making. Or might that mistake have been made during the stage before the decision making itself? During research perhaps?

The rule of the thumb is to try and read several laptop computer reviews before you consider you have obtained enough information for what you need. Why is that necessary?

To begin with, laptop computer reviews are written by people who are paid to write pretty many reviews perhaps in one single day. As a result, whether the writer wants it or not, he/she may end up laying pretty much the same thing on the paper, or the screen. Or, she/he may end up leaving pieces of information out. Mistake is pretty common in human work when fatigue and monotony interfere.

Another reason why you should read as many laptop computer reviews as possible is that this way you will surely come across reviews made by users of the product. These types of ratings and assessments are the ones that would most likely give you a realistic picture of how this device really works. Consumers will also have several aspects in mind that big company reviewers may exclude from their pieces of information. These types of laptop computer reviews will also give you a clue as to whether you are going for the thing you really need, or for something that is too advanced, thus unnecessarily expensive, or too basic, therefore cheap and useless.

Last but not least, different laptop computer reviews, especially if made by various sites and consumers, will vary in the type of information you can collect about the device. What may be missing in this assessment may be mentioned in another. The whole puzzle can never be completed until you actually own that computer; however, the more numerous the evaluations, the more accurate the image of the puzzle. All in all, remember that chance and ignorance will dig deep into your budget and more than that, might even get you with one low quality device.