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84How Tom's Hardware Guide pwnd the industry then lost it
When Dr. Thomas Pabst launched his eponymous website Tom's Hardware Guide in 1996 the internet was a relatively new phenomenon on the world stage. Practicing as a medical doctor in his native Germany and with no firm computer technology background,...
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76Bloatware: Why it's on your new PC and how to remove it
Bloatware, also known by the more vernacular moniker of Crapware is the overwhelming pile of anti-virus, extended service, demos, free trials and promos which computer manufacturers feel compelled to pile onto...
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70Wasting 1.4 Billion Transistors: Why GPUs are trumping CPUs
A silicon wafer showing multiple processors-to-be Moore's Law was first outlined by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore in a 1965 thesis. The "Law" deals with a basic trend in the history of computer...
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68Upgrading your laptop's RAM without destroying it
All you need to do in order to convince yourself that you should upgrade your own laptop's RAM memory is call around to the computer shops in your area. Some of them will charge as much as $100 to do nothing...
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57The death of Supply and Demand
$100 a barrel petroleum was once seen as the "Beyond This Point Lie Dragons". It was long questioned by leading petro industry analysts as to whether the world's oil-lubricated economy could keep operating...
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56Sneak Peek: Windows Seven Preview
Barely a couple of years ago, Microsoft enthusiasts would look back on Windows ME and Microsoft Bob as the lowest notes in the company's long history of providing personal computer Operating Systems. ME was an...
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57Sneak Peek: Adobe CS4 Preview
There is no question that in the last few years Adobe has firmly entrenched its domination over the global desktop publishing environment. The company's Creative Suite (CS) which incorporates virtually all the...
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67Sneak Peek: Mac Snow Leopard OS X 10.6
Is Snow Leopard a Jobs Snow Job? The announcement of a new version of Apple's venerable OS, whose numbers date back to the original Mac 128K running System 1, usually sparks a flurry of comments and...
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74Why Linux Is A Sad Joke
Open source nerds continue to live in the mistaken belief that the average computer user spends every waking moment like PenguinHeads do poring over the innards of hardware and software. A PC is a tool. The...
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69Why Ubuntu can't stack up to Windows or OS X
Three major OS choices. Which one is the laggard? Linux aficionados will go on ad infinitum as to why the various distros such as Ubuntu represent a valid alternative to the pricey and complex Operating Systems from Microsoft and Apple. As soon...
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