Where should the laptop sit is a question I often receive. The main thing with modern laptop computers is to sit them where there is little chance for the AC cord to be pulled on while the laptop is plugged in. If the cord has been yanked on and you have a laptop that keeps shutting itself off, you want to begin by determining how soon it shuts off after you power it up. In this article I will focus on the situation of a laptop shutting itself off before it completes POST. This basically means that the laptop will shut off within just a few seconds of being turned on.

I for one am looking to buy a new mini laptop computer by the end of this year, as I gave up my laptop for a more powerful desktop and now lack a portable computer that I could easily carry around with me when needed. And since I need autonomy and not necessarily power and special features, I’m probably going towards a new netbook, perhaps one of those 11.6 inchers, as I consider those offer a good deals between size, weight and ergonomics (as in: they are not so small so you can’t comfortably work with them for at lest a couple of hours).