45 posts
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Windows Phone 8—The Last Piece of the Puzzle?
Yesterday Microsoft unveiled he Windows Phone 8 to developers. It looks a lot like Windows Phone 7, but looks can be deceiving. It’s much more than an incremental update. Pull back the new home page tiles, peek under the bigger, shaper screens, look past the new multi-core CPUs…
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Microsoft’s Surface Tablet is a Game Changer
Yesterday Microsoft announced the Surface tablet. Is Microsoft really entering the computer hardware business? Yes. Success on the tablet is crucial to the success of Windows 8. Microsoft has to ensure a well executed, competitively priced platform, and isn’t going to trust…
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Move Windows to SSD with Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 2.0: Review
Do you have an SSD or Solid State Drive on your Christmas list? Maybe hoping Santa leaves an SSD in your stocking? SSDs are currently the number one way to increase the performance of your system. Instead of using a physical platter that must be read and written, using an arm…
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Lenovo M90z Review!
It was just like out of an old country western movie. So there I am, sitting in the bar minding my own business when a guy walks up to me and says “You work in a school right? Wanna try out a new computer?” Well, not exactly like a country western movie, but close right?…
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Why would Intel buy McAfee?
Today Intel announced plans to buy McAfee for $7.7 billion dollars. Most people are asking, “Why?”. Why would a chip maker acquire a security company? The answer may lie within Moore’s Law. Simply stated Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a chip will double…
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Google Phone (nexus one) Disappoints
Google. The brand built on free and open has released a phone that sells for $529 (without a contract), and is limited to “some” GSM networks. Oops! Sorry CDMA, and other GSM clients. Where’s the disruption? Where’s the free ad-supported phone? Where’s the phone that will work…
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Cherrypal Unveils $99 Laptop
I have a feeling that this new laptop is going to be under a lot of Christmas trees this year. Cherrypal has now introduced their no-frills notebook, at a cost of only $99.00! No, that isn’t a typo. The machine really does cost just under a hundred dollars!
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Do Desktop Touch Screens Work?
I have had my HP TouchSmart for just about a year now. I’ll never forget the day it arrived at my house. You’ve never seen a more excited Geek! From the day I won it in a contest until the UPS driver showed up on my doorstep, I read everything I could find about how…
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Seagate FreeAgent Backup Bundle Winner!
Wow! 571 entries seems to confirm these backup drives are in hot demand. Reading those comments, a lot of you really need to develop a backup plan. If not an external backup drive, check out other options in our Home Backup Series, or even a cheap Fireproof Backup Soultion.…
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$6000 HP Magic Giveaway Contest!
Welcome… To the $6,000 Geeks to Go HP Magic Giveaway contest! What? One winner will receive a prize package valued at over $6,000! Including all of the following: HP TouchSmart IQ816 AIO Desktop PC HP HDX 18 series Premium Notebook PC HP Pavilion dv4 series Entertainment…