I was investigating some low-end laptops and rejected a couple on the principle that for some confounding reason, manufacturers of low-end units have cut out the hard disk and the wireless LEDs(!) One ...

Call me old-fashioned, but I like to know when my hard drive is active. That’s partly so I know when Windows has more or less finished its boot activity (which, on one aging machine, takes 7-8 minutes ...

When I just leave my laptop idle, the hard drive indicator will come on, and I'll hear the hard drive churning away. It doesn't seem to do it when I'm working on the computer. In fact I never hear it ...