When you start shopping for a new computer, one of the first questions you’ll need to answer is whether to get a laptop or a desktop. As you probably suspect, there’s no one size fits all answer. By considering the advantages and disadvantages of each type of machine, as well as your own needs, preferences […]
Sooner or later it happens to everyone – you’re working away at the computer when suddenly it freezes, and no matter what key you press or what you click with the mouse there’s no response. Many users react by just pulling the plug and attempting to restart the machine, but doing that can cause other
Sooner or later you’ll be saying goodbye to your old computer. Maybe you’ll replace it with a newer model, maybe you’ll give it to a friend or relative, or maybe it will just stop working. Whatever the circumstances, before the machine leaves your possession there are several things you need to do to save your
Ever since personal computers first became widely used in the 1980s, their primary storage medium has been the conventional hard disk drive (HDD). Over the succeeding decades, HDDs continued to boast ever increasing capacity, speed and reliability, even as their prices kept dropping. Consider that for much of the 1980s the cost of a then
