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Walmart has some computer bargains for the people who get up at the crack of dawn this Black Friday, November 27, 2009. Some of the bargains are:
eMachines 15.6″ eME627-5279 Laptop PC with AMD Athlon 64 Processor for $198.00 click here
HP 15.6″ Pavilion G60-519WM Laptop PC with Intel Celeron Processor 900 & Windows 7 Home Premium [...]

In what appears to be one of the best deals I have seen for the upcoming Black Friday sales event, Best Buy has to be the low price leader for this computer system. Best buy is going to be offering the following system for sale for only $299.
The system is an eMachine, with an AMD [...]

Yesterday I received an email from an old friend of mine asking for some advice about a Toshiba laptop computer that Best buy has on sale. My friend asked whether or not this cheap laptop would be a wise buy and would meet their needs of email, surfing the web and light word processing ? [...]

Microsoft has built into Windows 7 a tool in which users can check the reliability of their Windows 7 installation. The reliability feature uses a graph that a user can use to determine if any problems have been reported and if there is a possible solution. You can start this feature by going to Start [...]

As many of you know, I bought my wife a new Toshiba laptop computer last week, that came with Windows 7 Home Premium edition pre-installed. The system also came with a variety of trial ware programs which included, Wild Tanget games, Microsoft Activation Assistant, Microsoft Home and Office, Netzero Installer, Quickbooks Trial, Norton Security, Norton [...]

Reader Brandon has a question for us that I thought I would post. He asks the following questions:
I am looking to buy a new desktop. I have known very little about computers, hardware and such but I have done a lot of searching online to better inform myself of the components inside of computers so [...]

While other companies like Blockbuster continue to have troubles in the movie rental business, Netflix continues to expand. In its latest offering, Netflix is going to be offering movie streams to owners of the popular Sony PS3 units. Current Netflix users with the $8.99 a month package for unlimited DVD rentals are automatically included in [...]

Microsoft is announcing that their Office 2010 Starter Edition will be ad supported and available for free. The catch is that the Starter Edition will only be offered on a new computer sale and not for a free download. The Starter Edition will only include Word and Excel and be stripped down versions of the [...]

The future was going to be touch screen computers. At least that is what the experts predicted. But the reality is that touch screens for the desktop may be a small sell. The reason is that using a touch screen may be uncomfortable for most of us. In one report it states that some touch [...]

I have been beta testing the software known as Microsoft Security Essentials since it was released. The software is currently installed on my test box which is running Windows 7 RTM along with a virtual copy of Windows XP. I am using MSE for both operating systems and it works very well with one exception. [...]

At a recent Virus Bulletin conference one of the attendees found one topic extremely interesting. The topic was about the Russian “Partnerka”, which has been mutated to attack Mac computer systems. The attendee knew that a majority of Mac users have no anti-malware software in place and could be easily infected. At the same conference [...]

Yesterday I received an email from a friend of mine which asked for help with a used computer system he had purchased. The computer had software preinstalled on it but came with no documentation, installation disks for the operating system, nor any serial numbers for the software. My friend asked if there was a program [...]

According to a recent article, Apple has included malware protection in their new Snow Leopard operating system. The protections can scan for two specific malware variants and protect the system from these two trojans.
According to a recent article at ZD Net it also states the following information:

Apple’s anti-malware function only scans files downloaded with a [...]

Let me begin by saying that any survey, reported statistics, and repair information is always suspect to review. Rescuecom is an independent repair facility that repairs all brands of computers including most of the major brands that we are all familiar with. They have provided some statistics that may be a good barometer as to [...]

Over at CNet they have posted an article about tablet computers and why consumers may not buy the device. As we have been reading during the past few months, the founder of TechCrunch is in the process of introducing what is called a Crunchpad, and also that Apple may be also introducing a tablet computer. [...]

Over the years I have read a boat load of computer repair horror stories. So it was with interest that I found these computer repair horror stories complete with victims and villains. After reading the stories one point became crystal clear for any of us who send in our systems for repair. Back up your [...]

The Internet is a buzz with rumors about Apple and what the company may be working on in secret. It is either a secret or Apple is taking a page from the Microsoft play book. Leak information your self about a new product to get free press plus user interest. In any case, Apple may, [...]

This holiday season is going to be a bit more confusing as OEM’s add CULV [consumer ultra-low voltage] to the shopping list of netbook and laptop computers. So who is who and what is what? Over at cnet they describe the units this way:
Netbooks are mini-notebooks with screens between 9 and 11 inches, that have [...]

I read an interesting article which covered what Steve Ballmer had said about Google and their new Chrome operating system. The interview took place at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans and the following sentence caught my eye:
As for Microsoft’s own plans, Ballmer said the company did not see a need for a [...]

This is different. HP is introducing a printer that connects to the Internet, has a touch screen, and needs no computer to function. According to one article, the device is meant to print out stuff from the likes of Google such as documents, maps and so forth. HP states that the printer will be called [...]