Laptop upgrades are not difficult to complete yourself, and there are three key upgrades that you can easily accomplish to make your laptop run faster.  These will also give your laptop a higher resale value when you decide to replace it.

One of the most simple laptop upgrades to complete yourself is to upgrade your operating system. If you are running Windows XP or Windows Media Center, upgrading to Windows Vista is a good idea.  You will be able to take advantage of the many features of Windows Vista, as well as enhance the speed of your system.  An upgrade to Windows Vista for the Home Basic edition is under $100 and is worth it to enhance the efficiency of your system. (More…)

As several folks are reporting, the venerable Q1 is back on Tablet PC Review’s list of the top 10 Tablet PC’s. Even better its at number 7, not sneaking in under the wire when no one was looking.

I must admit to being jealous of Perry’s Motion LE1700 when I saw that he had gotten a unit. Rat Bas%$#@ came to mind. But then I thought about it. I still take my Q1 to places I probably wouldn’t take a larger unit. And it’s so freakin’ light.

The old Q1 continues to hang in there. If you stick 2 gigs of ram inside it does quite well. I had some SQL work to do today that returned some good sized record sets (tens of thousands of records) and the Q1 held up well.  Results weren’t instantaneous but certainly acceptable.

So Motion or Allegiance, I’ll happily take an LE1700 review unit but for my day to day work, I’m sticking with the Q1.

I’m tweaking my Q1 with the Vista Tweaker beta. So far, it’s dead simple to use and I love the fact that it provides descriptions of what each tweak does. Every tool should provide this!

It’s a stand alone app with no install, so it’s easy to play with. If you’ve made registry tweaks to your system or are afraid of making tweaks to your system, give Vista Tweaker a look.