The Computer Market Blog

If you’re strap for cash and buying a new laptop is just not in your budget, then have you ever considered purchasing a second laptop? The benefits of buying second hand are more than just financial, it's also environmental. In a recent study conducted by the U.N in 2016, over 45 million metric tons of electronic waste was accumulated worldwide. This includes e-waste. What’s e-waste? E-waste or ‘electronic waste’ made up from discarded computers, tablets, phones and laptops, circuit boards and other electronic goods that were thrown into landfill. The e-waste is hard to degrade over time due to its metals and these metals can be proven to be very valuable. However, here are a few other factors to consider when you purchase a second-hand laptop such as helping the environment. Xpoitservices.co.uk suggests the benefits of helping the environment by purchasing a laptop are harmless and more effective then you may think. E-waste is made up of different types of substances...

The bad news to get out of the way from the very beginning is the unalterable fact that all batteries will begin deteriorating once the use of a new laptop begins.  Battery deterioration does not mean the end of the world for that new laptop.  There are several things that you can do to lessen the deterioration of the battery in a new laptop. Some of the first and quick things that you can do to help increase the life of your laptop battery are: setting the screen brightness lower, reducing the backlighting of the laptop and turning off the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when not necessary to be in use. While working or your laptop, it will help if you close any programs that you are not using or needing to work within a short period of time.  Large numbers of open programs put a strain on the laptop battery. You also need to remove disc drives, thumb drives and any other external device that you do not need for your current work.  All these items will make your la...