In my view gaming laptops have lost their once held special status. I remember when they were not so available. For the manufacturer they were hugely money making despite not shifting in great volumes. Everybody wanted this kind of notebook, but it was too pricey. They the the latest technology and just the best laptop computers. I reckon they would give us an idea of what’s to come but no one would actually buy laptop computers for gaming back then. The main brands have lately begun taking advantage of giant opportunities in gaming laptops, so that is all shifting.

If mass produced, brands can render big revenues on gaming portables. These manufacturers have probably been losing some money on lower end systems so this should be a welcomed opportunity. In my view bigger companies can utilize leverage to influence prospects to buy laptop computers regardless of the expense. Local retailers definitely have a gigantic job ahead now. This formerly premium technology is simply going to be targeted at everybody now. Obviously the association of a familiar brand name comes in here.

With that these notebooks are also perceived to be the best laptop computers already, even when they really aren’t. This is possibly the last service that smaller competitors can give that the larger ones cannot. The custom build service is a massive bonus to the potential purchaser. This type of prospect is usually well versed in the technical aspects and is able to contrast the specs. Often these sorts of prospects are more concerned with the specifications than the looks.

This is fantastic news from a buyers standpoint. I can forecast a few price wars occurring in this market later on. Although that is my view on it, its just my point of view and most likely not what will happen. I am not certain if the overall price of laptops will drop but new laptops are normally at high starting prices. The global companies have already entered the gaming laptop computers sector so we will have to look and observe what happens I guess.

http://www.rizeon.com look to be selling their gaming systems on the cheap to compete with others.

Its insane that laptops are now becoming a common consumer electronic, as if you should have one. But be warned if you want the most up to date tech than you need to build up some patience as there are likely to be component shortages. Its actually amazing that credit problems and all haven’t hindered this demand for laptops either. Also with mobile computers now it looks like every few months or so the technology is already replaced with something different.

More manufacturers are realising that gaming notebooks is becoming large enough market to address. These days you get a lot more for your money because the latest tech is always around the corner. Notebooks can now genuinly be used for gaming by us due to the advanced performance of modern systems. I also feel that a couple gaming notebooks look really trendy, with some slick, powerful features. Despite all the good things of notebooks, desktops should always perform more rapidly than them. I don’t give it too long before we see ultra portable gaming notebooks on the streets.

Performance portables are typically custom built to the customers specification. One thing with custom notebooks is that you can aquire superior spec parts. Specialist sectors benefit because they only have procure what they require. Mass market notebooks aren’t manufactured with particular consumers in mind and this could mean an issue. For the specialist consumers, custom notebooks fill the gap. Companies who trade custom notebooks typically give a more personalised and local service too. To some buyers this means a lot.

Amazing is a word that comes to mind when thinking of the future wave of portable computers. The tiny $500 notebooks are shifting like crazy at the moment. The Eee just built a new niche sector. Supremely people would want a slim notebook with a 15.4″ screen. There are portables resembling this in the market already, just at premium prices. From the trends it looks like gaming notebooks will become thinner and more powerful. There’s no telling what laptops we will see but certainly there will be many.

For the price these are the best laptops.

I rarely hear about the role of the Heart or the power of Love as relevant determinants of human health or spirituality. This was particularly highlighted at a recent energy psychology conference in which a keynote presentation on the topic of Enlightenment seemed to focus almost entirely on achieving altered states of consciousness. I could feel my heart crying out inside me how incomplete this felt.

Also at a breakout session where an energy therapy was being presented as an effective way of releasing ego based negativity (i.e. negative emotions, perceptions, beliefs and memories) one question shockingly drove home to me the level of disconnection we have with our hearts. The question: “As nature abhors a vacuum, once we release this ego based negativity, what do we replace it with?” My answer: “With the essence of who we are and have always been, our hearts!”.

So on hearing all this, as a duty to my Heart and Myself, I feel it imperative to help bring the Human Heart back into the forefront of our work and personal development. As a result I will share here some of my clinical experiences of the crucial role that I feel both the Heart and the energy of Love play in the field of energy psychology and in the destiny of humanity.

I start by addressing the following issues:

1. How the current concept of consciousness as a mental phenomenon has deflected our attention from the Heart.

2. The awareness that the Heart is the equivalent of the Core Human Self

3. Core Human Emotions

4. Conditioned Emotions

5. The role of the Heart as an organ of perception

6. The role of the Heart as a source of immense wisdom and knowledge

7. The energy field that we call the feelings of Love

8. The healing power of Love.

9. The concept of a Divine Holographic Energy Field

10. Factors which impinge negatively on this Divine Holographic Energy Field

11. A new definition of “consciousness”

12. A new definition of illness

13. A new definition of health

14. The Body-Spirit Dichotomy

15. The Road to Enlightenment

Both Western and Eastern spiritual traditions have largely gravitated towards an understanding of consciousness and its altered states as possible doors to spiritual enlightenment. Unfortunately “consciousness” usually refers to a mental state or phenomenon. Rarely does one think of the Heart in this picture let alone emotions or feelings of Love. As science is largely a mind/brain dominated and driven discipline it is not difficult to understand how Heart and emotion become relegated to the back rooms never to be heard from again.

To say that we as feeling human beings consider ourselves primarily “thinking” beings is to essentially forget who we really are. It is difficult to understand then how we will ever achieve Enlightenment if we in fact are leaving ourselves behind. Hence it is my view that by focusing primarily on consciousness, as a mental phenomenon, we are missing an opportunity to know ourselves and our true nature as Divine Beings.

The concept of the Self has received endless dissertations by psychologists, psychiatrists and others over the last century. Opening an erudite text on the subject can mesmerize one to such an extent that one can walk away feeling totally confused about what appears to be an elusive and complex concept. In my view this situation exists largely because the Self has been defined theoretically as a mind/brain construct. That is we often consider the Self to be related in some complex way to what we term personality.

I would like to suggest a more pragmatic and personal way of defining the Self that everyone can identify with and feel almost instantly. This new approach entails a personal awareness of one’s Self. This awareness can be facilitated by one of the following simple exercises:

1. Say the word “Myself” to yourself and notice where inside your body the word resonates for you,
Or

2. Think of something about yourself that you appreciate, appreciate yourself for it, and notice what you feel and where you feel it. The location of the feeling in your body is the location of your Self.

In most cases both 1 and 2 yield the same location, i.e. in the mid-chest or over the Heart region. For individuals who have been heavily mind/brain oriented (i.e. overly analytical people like most well educated professionals) the tendency may be to say that they feel the Self in their mind. A close examination of this will often reveal an inability of such individuals to feel their feelings or even worse a fear of feeling them. When one is in a state of self-appreciation one usually feels joyful, happy, content etc. With some self-awareness I know that you will recognize that these can only originate in the Heart.

This personal awareness of the Self is also clearly felt as being the “core” of that person i.e. where they feel themselves to be. Hence we can also refer to the experience of the Self as the Core Self or more generally the Core Human Self. Again, I must emphasize that these statements are drawn from one’s personal awareness of themselves and not from theoretical considerations. This caveat is necessary to avoid endless debates on the merits of one theory of Self over another. Your personal awareness of your Self is what it is for you.

As core feelings clearly emerge from the Core Self (or the heart, used interchangeably here) one might ask oneself what the nature or purpose of these “core emotions” is? We will address this shortly. The nature of the core emotions can be classified into two categories:

Category 1: Emotions of joy, happiness, peace, love, contentedness, expansiveness, hope, buoyancy or lightness,
And,
Category 2: Emotions of sadness, darkness, constriction, heaviness or sinking

We contrast these emotions with what we describe below as “conditioned emotions”.

It has been observed that animals that grow up in an environment where they are not hunted have yet to “learn” (or have imprinted in them) the experience of fear. Another way of saying this is that these animals have yet to develop a post-traumatic syndrome. Is it not strange then that we consider animals that fear for their survival as normal?

We define these survival-based (or more broadly trauma-based) emotions here as “conditioned emotions”. Some examples include worry, fear, anxiety, panic, defensiveness, avoidance, mistrust, etc. If we now consider the history of the human species, one could say that our survival-based emotions also represent a post-traumatic syndrome of sorts. That suggests that there may have been a time, before the cumulative history of human trauma, where we humans were in our natural state. Where our survival did not feel threatened.

Occasionally one will feel “conditioned emotions” such as anger, worry, guilt, unworthiness, fear, desperation, self doubt, low self esteem, etc in the region of the Core Self. In such cases these individuals have experienced emotional trauma during their lifetimes that have occluded the pure expression of their Core (Emotional) Self. Such “conditioned emotions” cannot originate from a Heart that is inherently Loving but from the personal and collective (as alluded to above) history of trauma that has imprinted itself deeply enough to allow one to mistrust their Heart and the innate wisdom of their Core Self.

Interestingly, if we look at the impact of these conditioned emotions, on our species and on the planet, we notice that they are responsible for the perpetuation of trauma at every level i.e. trauma begets trauma. The net result is the deepening of these conditioned emotions in the human bio-field. This sets up a vicious negative spiral leading to a more negative state both individually and collectively

Clearly then, conditioned emotions cause humans to become further distanced from their core human emotions. The net result is a relative and sometimes complete disconnection from the Core Human Self. Often this results in behaviors that we as bystanders feel and define as “inhuman” i.e. reflex behaviors such as violence and killing for example, not originating from the human being rather from their conditioned response based on traumatic imprinting.

Another example is someone who has been hurt so many times that they are reluctant to engage a genuine desire for Love coming from within their Core Human Self. For instance, have you ever heard someone say, “I can’t entrust myself to feelings of Love again after my last disappointing experience with relationships”?

From a mind/brain standpoint, where feelings are often left out, we might find ourselves trying to rationalize, or even steer clear of these core emotions emerging from within us. However with some reflection one readily notes their real importance. Category 1 Emotions are a sign that your situation is where you want it to be and Category 2 Emotions are a sign that it is not where you want it to be. Hence your Core Self regularly and automatically monitors the desirability of your situation for you. In other words, your Core Self is a perceiving entity (i.e. your heart is a perceiving organ).

One can go further and say that the Core Self is knowledgeable about what is and is not good for you. This is clear by the fact that when you feel sad about something it can be taken to mean that the offending event is not desirable to you nor is it in your best interests. So in other words the Core Self has immense wisdom about you, your life, and your direction in life etc.

An interesting example is the individual who recognizes their sadness about being too afraid to love again i.e our Core Self telling us that it is not good for us to be cutting ourselves off from the experience of Love. If you follow this so far then you might start to wonder why we spend so much time trying to “figure out” (i.e. a mental activity) what direction to steer our lives in when we have this information already inside us beckoning us to listen to it.

Conditioned emotions of hurt on the other hand do not emerge from us but appear to be imprinted and stored in our bio-fields as a result of individual and inter-generation based trauma. They have the net effect of obfuscating and derailing our connection to our Core Emotions often leaving us feeling lost, confused and insecure about our path. This is very much like putting on a pair of prescription glasses that don’t belong to you; they just make everything blurry.

We now turn to the phenomenon we call Love. This is a tricky subject because conditioned emotions (and corresponding beliefs) have largely distorted one’s experience of the pure emotion of Love. For instance many people “believe” that Love has something to do with needing that someone they “love”. I would like to suggest that the “need” for someone is really a conditioned emotion and not a core emotion at all.

For instance, if you ask yourself the question, “Well why do I need this person?” you’ll most likely find that it is because you might feel anxious, empty, lost, alone, even desperate if they weren’t there with you. It’s the fear of being alone or abandoned, imprinted by the trauma of earlier loss or separation, that is creating the need which then becomes “defined” as an experience of Love. Relationships, which are based on this definition of “Love” often, become, what we call, unhealthy co-dependent relationships rather than genuine healthy loving ones.

(PLEASE SEE COMPLETION IN PART 2)

Nick Arrizza M.D. is an Energy Psychiatrist, Healer, Researcher, Speaker, Developer of the powerful Mind Resonance Process(TM), and Author of e-book: “Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation” which is available for download on his web site at: http://www.telecoaching4u.com/ebook.htm Dr. Arrizza holds ongoing International Telephone Healing and Teleconference Sessions on topics relating to Healing and Spirituality.

Copyright© 2005 Arrizza Performance Coaching Inc., All Rights Reserved

“Why should you be afraid?”, I can hear you ask.

I just got an email from my friend Miche who said,

“My laptop is sick at the hospital. Hard Drive failure.
Am praying data can be retrieved.”

Her exact words.

Ohhhh : tremors of fear running up and down my spine!

Why?

Because … and I have to be honest … I haven’t *backed up* my laptop for ages!

Oh I can hear your derisive laughter, your looks of scorn … I can feel your disbelief.

Me - of all people - admitting this. My friends call me “TechieGirl”!

Well, the best part of my friend’s scary dilemma is that it’s forcing me into action!

I’m dusting off the cd burner and plugging into the power, plugging it into the USB slot - now how *hard* was that? I’ve got a stack of blank cds gathering dust on my desk … why not use them?

Hmm … why not do a *big* backup on the first of each month, and a *mini* backup every Monday [or Tuesday or Friday … whatever works best for you]?

::::: Plan it! :::::

OK - stick with me here - open your online Diary or Appointments Database or hard-copy Diary and make an appointment *with yourself* - which part of the week could you devote say a half hour to, to do a quick backup? What about when you sit down to open the mail, or read a report, do your return phonecalls? If you work from home, why not start the backup as soon as you get out of bed so it’ll be done by the time you’ve had your walk, eaten your breakfast, and showered.

I can hear you saying, “Oh it’ll take too long … I’ll do it later … tomorrow … next week … next month …”. And then one day I’ll be getting an email or a call from you saying, “If only I’d backed up the computer …”

Imagine losing all your documents, projects, databases, passwords, software settings, names, addresses, phone numbers, email names, website links - YIKES! I’m scaring myself again!!!!

If I lost even *one* thing in that list above, I’d be in BIG trouble - REAL BIG trouble.

::::: What do I backup? :::::

Good question. The most important thing NOT to backup is your software.

You do have all the original cds, don’t you? And you made copies of those cds when you bought the software, right, as a *backup* in case the original cd failed? Didn’t you? Yeah, I thought so … no-one bothers to do that, but it’s the one thing which could save your hair from going white overnight after your computer dies.

MUST backup:

* LOGINS, ALL passwords, FTP access codes, banking details, etc. Where do you currently keep this info? Please don’t tell me it’s in a little book on your desk … oh so easy to get lost, to get put in someone else’s pocket, to go walk-about. You should have a password-protected spreadsheet or document, or even better - a password-protected database. I have a database which I open as soon as I create a new login, or add myself to a mailing list, or join a new news group etc - paste the info in *as* you create it, to ensure you’ll *never* forget it. Sure, you sometimes get confirmation emails with this data … but if your computer has *died* … get the picture? You can’t access the emails!

* CLIENT documents / projects / websites (if you’re a developer), in fact ANYTHING which could cause grief if you lost it or didn’t have a copy of it. If you’ve printed a lot of this stuff, what would you need if you had a *fire* and lost all your paper files? Think about that. Hard. Now make a list and maybe have a backup cd for each Client or group of clients, depending on your business.

* EMAIL software folder which should include ALL your emails. You do *keep* all emails don’t you? Please tell me you’re not one of those people who deletes emails as soon as you read them (business ones I mean). Have you ever considered that emails are a form of *database*? I can search my Eudora software for any word or phrase and in a nanosecond I have a list of emails relating to that item (all neatly filed in their email folders … but that’s *another* article!). I *love* Eudora’s features! Getting back to business, emails with historical information on projects are invaluable to see who said what and when they said it. It’s a timeline, tracking resource, for a project’s life.

* PHOTOS, personal, professional - unless you’re using them all the time, these can be kept on CDs on a regular basis. When you download from the digital camera, save to cd straight away and save space on your hard drive [note to “self” : follow own suggestion]. If you have photos related to a project or client, save them to the Client cd you created earlier, if there’s space.

* FINANCIALS. All your spreadsheets, MYOB or whatever other software you use to track financials. Every document which the tax department might one day want to see … for the past 7 years. Business plans, budgets, everything relating to your business which you’ll need to continue to *be* in business.

* FAXES - do you use online faxing like I do? Where every incoming fax comes into my inbox as an email? From now on, whenever one arrives, put it into a folder called FAXES or save with your client data. Faxes are also a record of what’s transpired - another form of database. Plus if you use this kind of fax service, you’re saving trees. :o>

* INSURANCE. Keep quotes etc on your computer? You’ll be needing these.

* DATABASES - all of them. A must. Trust me, you’ll kick yourself if you need one of these you didn’t bother backing up.

* COMPUTER DESKTOP. OK - what’s still sitting on your desktop which hasn’t be put away or filed yet? Probably a bunch o’stuff - clear this up before you backup, make your job that little bit easier.

* EXCEPTION to the SOFTWARE RULE above - if you’ve bought any software online, or downloaded any software or programs of any kind for which you did not receive a cd, then back it up. If you’ve still got the Installer file, save that - it’ll save time.

* BROWSER Settings - go through your browser Preferences screens, take snapshots (like printscreen) of those settings - it’ll save you a TON of time if you have to set up your email and ISP settings at a later date.

* PDFs : have you downloaded any pdfs or purchased any ebooks? Are they all in the same download folder, or in a PDF or eBook folder? You’ll want to save these.

Oh boy - I just looked at my hard drive - 222 folders of stuff - I need to do some serious sorting and computer *housekeeping* before I do a backup, otherwise it’ll take forever to sift through all that stuff! So here’s the list of things to do:

* tip : do it in bite-sized pieces, baby steps, little chunks each day

* make a list of things you want to backup - think about your client info etc

* do your computer housekeeping, put things away in folders, then put those folders in main folders to tidy up your own special filing system - do this on one day so it’s not too overwhelming

* on the next day, make sure you have spare cds - you might need a few, depending on how much filing needs to be done; go buy cds if you need to. Consider buying Read Write cds, rather than the regular cds - if you want to be able to add info to cds later.

* if you’ve got an internal cd burner in your computer, you’re a lucky dog - if you’ve got an external one, plug it in and make sure it works

* when you’re ready, start the software you need to backup (usually Toast or something similar)

* be prepared for this to take at least an hour, maybe more if you’ve got a ton of stuff, but *don’t * put it off! An hour spent now could save you *weeks* of worry and work in the future!

* when you’ve done the first *big* backup, pat yourself on the back, you’ve accomplished a very important business task!!!

While you’re feeling smug and proud of yourself, think about when you should do your next backup. How much work would you be ok about losing? One day’s worth? One week’s worth? How about a month of work? Whichever is the one you choose, make *that* the amount of time before you do your first *mini* backup. Don’t be afraid to set other backup procedures for times which suit you, your projects, your clients.

The main question you need to ask yourself is,

“How much work would it be OK to *lose* without it affecting me or my business?”

::::: DON’T FORGET :::::

Label your cds. How are you going to file them? In a cd box? Will they be in a hard plastic shell or sleeve? Where would it make sense to *see* the client name on the cover, when it’s in the box? How easily would you be able to find a cd in that box? You can write on cds with thick permanent markers, or if you’re really keen, you can print onto cd labels (available from many stationery companies).

Keep 2 backup copies.

If you don’t work at home, it might be worthwhile keeping a backup copy of the backup - one at work, one at home. Just in case.

Now that I’ve scared myself silly, I’m off to dust the cd burner and make a latte - don’t expect me to reply to your emails over the next few hours, I’m doing a backup!

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Do not let this happen to you.

While some large publishers would have you think these exams change tremendously from one version to another (”updated for the latest exams!”), the simple fact is that the Intro, ICND, and CCNA Composite exams simply don’t change much from version to version.

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A laptop company called Rizeon, based in the UK seem to be getting some good reviews on the net yet I had never even heard of them until crawling through the laptop forums. Their whole laptop range seems to be focused on the high end of the performance bar, featuring Intel core 2 duo processors and aimed towards speed freaks and the gaming community.

Buying a Rizeon laptop is not cheap. As they are all performance focused the starting prices are in the region of £600 up but after comparing some other prices I think it’s fair to say they are some of the greatest value laptops around. Specification for specification they usually work out less expensive and they don’t even skimp on the quality of parts. According to their site they include brands like Seagate, Hitachi, Kingston, Corsair and Intel. They do pride themselves on supplying reliable and high quality laptops.

Rizeon’s website is rather easy to use and it’s good to see the large range of upgrade options available. I always prefer custom laptops because the standard laptops you find in high street shops just lack performance parts. Rizeon’s current range varies from 13.3inch up to 17inch systems with the latter being primarily positioned as a gaming laptop because it features the Nvidia 8800m GTX graphics chip which is the fastest available today.

I must say I’m very impressed on first impression. It’s refreshing to see that you can buy performance laptop computers without having to pay an arm and leg like when buying from the larger companies. Sure there are other companies doing similar things but they seem to be aiming at other markets or trying to battle with the big players in the industry which is usually a losing battle. You do get a lot for your money when buying Rizeon laptops so I would recommend checking out what’s on offer.