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Lenovo ThinkCentre M92P Review

September 29, 2014August 31, 2012 by Paul Salmon

The Lenovo ThinkCentre M92P is a device for the new-age office goer, who can work from home or a businessman with a fledgling business without the luxury of space. Although the device is called a PC, it is more of a tiny PC, a pocket size version, a computer with support. It’s compact and cute and you can place it under your desk or behind other system screens and optimize your system needs for your work place.

So think of it as your adapter to which you connect all your monitors- up to four at a time.

4 Questions to Ask Yourself When Buying a Computer

August 9, 2013July 5, 2012 by Guest Blogger

Buying a computer is a big decision. And it’s not an easy one. The money you spend on your computer is an investment that can have a large impact. This is why it is important to know how to make the right decision for you and evaluate your choices with intelligent criteria. Here are the four questions to ask yourself when buying a computer.

NVIDIA Launches the GeForce GTX 670

February 26, 2016May 11, 2012 by Paul Salmon

In keeping with the tradition of graphics chip manufacturers releasing various cards with different performance aspects, NVIDIA has announced the launch of the GeForce GTX 670. This card, much like the GeForce GTX 680 will feature a graphics chip based on the Kepler graphics architecture.

NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 690

September 29, 2014April 30, 2012 by Paul Salmon

Another page was added to the book regarding the battle for computer graphics supremacy a few days ago with the unveiling of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 690. While this graphics card is probably out of the price range for most people, for those that are serious about creating gaming rigs, this card will probably cause a lot of excitement.

4 Questions to Ask When Purchasing a New Computer

July 18, 2013January 16, 2012 by Amy

Purchasing a new computer is an exciting event, but with so many varieties on the market it can be a challenge to narrow down your options and pick one quality computer. It might be tempting to focus on the numbers and specifications like RAM or CPU speed, but those should be secondary to answering some other major questions about what exactly you need to get out of your computer. By answering these four questions about what you need and what you expect, you can find the perfect computer to purchase for yourself.

A Server is a Computer That You Can Create at Home

November 10, 2011 by Paul Salmon

If you happen to have an old computer at home, then you can create a home storage server since a server is a computer.

Most people tend to already have a network installed at home since many use broadband Internet with a router, so it may make sense to make use of an old computer to create a centrally located storage server.

While the old desktop may not become a high performance file server, it can easily be converted to storing your file to help you backup your data.

On top of that, you can also share the data stored on your home file storage server with any computer connected to the network.

Create one or more backup file servers is easy to do, and I’ll touch on how you can go about doing it in this post.

Shutdown Your Computer Automatically After Any Task

August 16, 2013September 12, 2011 by Paul Salmon

The most important task of your computer is waking it up and after that it making it to sleep or shutdown. Say you want to download throughout night and you want to shut down your computer after the download, you can’t just wake up and make your computer shutdown. This is just an instance, but there are ways to shut down computer even after playback of a movie. These are some killer ways to shutdown computer automatically.

Are Desktop Computers Going the Way of the Dodo?

October 15, 2012June 8, 2011 by Paul Salmon

I remember over twenty years ago my family got their first desktop PC. The computer had an 8088 processor with a speed of 4.77 Mhz, with 640 KB of RAM and a 20 MB hard drive. The graphics card was CGA and was capable of displaying 4 colours on the screen. Eventually the graphics card was upgraded to an EGA card that display 16 colours.

Desktop computers, that we know of today, have been around longer than those 20 years, but recently I have seen people talking about the demise of the desktop computer. With the increased use in mobile devices, the once stalwart desktop seems to be disappearing like the dodo.