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Business tech bargain: a cheap, super-portable laptop
July 17, 2013
Cheap. Powerful. Light. When you're looking to buy a new business laptop, you usually have to settle for two of these three requirements.
Quite simply, the smaller and more powerful your laptop is, the more you'll have paid for it.
And while this dinky 11" Asus laptop isn't exactly super-powered, it has enough oomph to browse the internet and run your standard business software, like Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel.
Weighing in at 1.3kg and currently available from Amazon for just £330, it certainly ticks the 'cheap' and 'light' boxes. Ok, it's not quite as featherlight as something like an 11" MacBook Air, but then it's well under half the price too.
This Asus Vivo is also equipped with a touch screen and an adequate 4GB of memory, although it's worth bearing in mind you'll probably only get about half a day's work in before you need to recharge the battery.
Still, at £330 it's a definite bargain.
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Business tech bargain: cheap network attached storage for backups
July 12, 2013
A network attached storage (NAS) device is a fancy name for a hard drive you can plug directly into your business computer network.
Once it's connected up, everyone on your network can access and use it to store files and data. If your business doesn't have a network server on which to store shared files, NAS can be a good way to centralise data without having to spend a fortune.
Tradtionally, NAS devices have been pretty expensive. However, there's now a good choice at the budget end of the spectrum too, including this super-cheap option from long-time hard drive manufacturer Seagate.
An entry-level NAS
The Seagate 2TB central NAS is a basic NAS, offering 2 terabytes (TB) of data storage for an eminently-reasonable £113. That's enough space for thousands and thousands of documents, but you may require more storage if you hold lots of larger files.
Because this is a cheap NAS drive, it's not really designed to share data between more than a couple of people working on a network. It's unlikely to have the performance to serve files up quickly to several people at once.
However, cheap storage is always useful and so this NAS could be an ideal way to backup your key business data. Combine it with a cloud backup service (perhaps something like Mozy, Dropbox or Livedrive) and you'll have a straightforward backup system that should keep you safe in most scenarios.
See details and buy online from Dabs >>
(If you haven't given serious thought to how you back up your data, please read our advice on how to back up your business.)
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