Vista Migration: 4 Months Later
Has 4 months of Vista made Rob, a believer or does he still long for XP?
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The Pit Blog
PC vs. Mac: Apples to Apples Showdown
Rob takes an ‘Apples to Apples’ look at the PC vs. Mac debate and crowns a heavyweight champion of the computing world.
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Apples to Apples Showdown: Tale of the Tape
First Global P2P
1999: Napster is introduced
2000: Rapster for Mac
2000: Macster
Reference: http://www.mac-p2p.com/p2p-history/
Reference: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/10/25/napster_launches_mac_mp3_app/
Reference: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-247603.html
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Is Your PC Feeling A Little Bloated?
PC Pitstop separates the ‘bloatware’ hype from reality. Which PC manufacturer is the King of Bloat? PC Pitstop examines 8 brand new computers and documents the winners and losers.
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A Battle for Hard Drive Freedom – Part II
Which of the major PC manufacturers is staking the largest claim to hard drive space on new computers?In our latest video, the PC Pitstop Research Team investigates hidden partitions on 30 brand new PCs. We found the best way to recover these hidden partitions is to use Acronis Disk Director Suite.
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A Battle for Hard Drive Freedom
PC Pitstop research has shown that many PC vendors are making a practice of creating a separate partition on a system’s primary hard drive in which to store the systems’ original restoration information. Rob’s new video documents his crusade to reclaim his hard drive space on his new PC. Thanks to Acronis Disk Director Suite he was able to accomplish his goal.
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The Illusions of Vista
I was talking to an old friend the other day and he confided that he was once a magician. Wow! And of course, I asked him to share some of the cool secrets of the trade. Although we’ve known each other for over a decade, he was not forthcoming. In fact quite the opposite. Apparently, there is a secret code among magicians that they can only share with each other. That said, we all know that there really is no magic, just slights of hand that make things seem different than they might appear. Which brings us to Microsoft’s latest operating system – Vista.
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The Vista Backups That You Can’t Have
In this month’s Pit Blog, Rob weighed in with his concerns about Vista’s restore points. I have a bone to pick with Microsoft about this as well, from a slightly different perspective.
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XP to Vista: A Worthwhile Migration?
In this new video, Rob shares the ups & downs of migrating one system from XP to Vista.
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Hello Firefox, Goodbye Internet Explorer
After a decade, Rob has made the transition from Internet Explorer to Firefox. In this new video, he reviews the Firefox features that made the decision to switch easy.
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