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So just yesterday HP released details on their new ENVY 14 Series laptops. Adding to the lineup of 13, 15 and 17-inch models, the 14-inch version fits right into a personal sweet spot in terms of size and portability. The ENVY 14 makes up for some of the downsides of the 13″ version [...]

With the release of Windows 7 and laptop prices dropping into the sub $400 range, one might take a look at their old, dated, nearly antiquated laptop and wonder whether it’s better to upgrade the old or buy brand new. After a few weeks of weighing the options, I chose to upgrade my 3-year [...]

I decided to join Netflix today after reading a lot of great things about their new “Watch Instantly” feature. They’ve got over 12,000 titles available for immediate download to your PC, or as the case may be, your Home Theater PC. With my new HTPC working quite nicely, the only next thing to [...]

In the same week that I picked up a used HP 3.0GHz P4 computer, my old Athlon 2600-based HTPC bit the dust. So I ended up taking the Biostar/AMD computer I had built for my dau

I just finished watching Steve Jobs keynote address on the new line-up of iPods. My first thoughts are they did a really good job overall of overhauling the each of the iPods, and offering some really great new features. Starting with the Shuffle, they could have done more than just a few new [...]

My laptop arrived yesterday, nearly a week before Dell claimed it would even ship, and two days before DHL said it was to arrive. That’s not bad service, they’ve definitely got the “under promise and over deliver” philosophy down in that regard. Except no one was home to sign for it, so I [...]

So I finally broke down and bought a laptop. I’ve been on the hunt for one for last few months, just watching the deals come and go, watching the prices drop and the hardware specs get better and better. Ultimately I knew I would just have to jump at some point and get [...]

It’s official, Dell will be offering desktops and laptops preloaded with Ubunto 7.04, the Linux distribution of choice for millions of people worldwide. I’m a fairly recent adopter of Ubuntu but have since become very hooked on its unique interface, vast array of applications and tools, and cool desktop effects that even outdo Vista, [...]

And it only took 12 hours to complete with the servers completely slammed all night long. I suppose I could have waited, but even at 25 kb/s (or so), it wasn’t that bad and I’ve been dying to try out the latest version of Ubuntu. Now that it’s up and running all I [...]

2007 – Intel released the new pricing plan for their Core 2 CPU’s and come April 22nd the 2.4GHz Quad-Core Q6600 will drop an impressive $320 from $851 to only $531. Though the guys at Anandtech feel this new pricing isn’t terribly aggressive, it finally puts quad-core goodness within the reach of the average [...]