Apparently, folks in the market for a PC these days – don’t care much about MHz or anything else in their system.
According to this NY Times story, big box retailers like Best Buy are now making a concentrated effort to make the labels on their shelf space – more user friendly.
HOGWASH! Don’t believe a word of it. It’s just another ploy to keep consumers in the dark.
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Our good friends at Soul Tracks, the #1 soul music website in America, are giving away 10 CDs to lucky members of the PC Pitstop community.
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I guess I need more memory, since I keep forgetting my own name! Sadly, I can’t just buy and install some in my brain. The question that Lynn sent in to PCPitStop is concerned about the amount of memory her computer has. She purchased a computer with 128MB of memory, which is running Vista. The store clerks keep telling her she needs more RAM, but she is wondering if they are just trying to get her to spend more money.
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By Steve Bass
You use Google, sure, but if all you’re doing are searches, you’re just scratching the surface. Here are a few things you might not know about Google.
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By Harry McCracken
There aren’t many pieces of technological design that simply can’t be improved upon, but the clamshell-style laptop computer case–introduced by Grid Systems in 1982–may be one of them. That’s why the vast majority of the portable computers built ever since have used it. But for more than a quarter-century now, inventors have been trying to top it, with folding screens, screens on stalks, folding keyboards, two-screen clamshells, tri-fold clamshells, and more. Most never even get off the drawing board. Herewith, a gallery of designs from Google Patents (click the filing dates to see the patents). There’s only one in here I might have considered buying, but on some perverse level I admire them all.
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If you have 1 hour you can be up and running your very own Dual Boot Windows 7 System. It’s never been easier. Today you can partition your existing drive, install Windows 7, and be up and surfing the net in less than an hour. Heck, I bet you can do it in a half hour. You gotta love it.
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By Bill Pytlovany
It’s no secret that I’ve never been a fan of Windows Vista. I really wanted to love it but even as a designated Microsoft MVP I couldn’t drink the kool-aid nor did I promote Vista to family and friends.
So, what makes Windows 7 so much better that I’ve changed my tune? I’m still happy with Windows XP but I am encouraging folks to invest their money and time to upgrade to Win7. I’ve put together four reasons that may not be secret but you may not hear a lot about due to their technical nature.
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Ira Wilsker, host of the Computer Information Hour weekly radio show on KLVI in Beaumont, Texas, recently reviewed PC Pitstop’s OverDrive scan and calls it “an outstanding tool to checkout the condition of any computer …”.
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A new school year can be stressful for the kiddies heading back with books, backpacks, and probably some new laptops here and there. This is a great time to make sure their computer is ready for a new year. Give them a system clear of Virus and spyware. Clear out old temp files. Defrag the hard drive. You never know how much space is needed for taking notes frorm the new teacher.
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