Over the course of the weekend the not-so sweet smell of a burning circuit board started coming out of my PC, so I did what anybody else would do, I mashed the power button and shut the computer off immediately. When the choice comes between having your PC become a literal fiery mess or have a corrupted OS from an improper shutdown, which to go with is fairly...

The netbook style of laptop is hot right now. Really hot. A big reason for this is because the price for them is really cheap (even as low as $250 brand new or $299 for the Dell Inspiron Mini 9), so yes, they’re flying off the shelves as fast as manufacturers can make them. However as a far as it would suit as a primary computer replacement, the answer for...

Dave (owner of PCMech) owns three Mac computers. He has a Mac mini, a 15-inch Macbook Pro and a Mac Pro tower. They are all good machines with the best obviously being the Mac Pro. There was a brief period of time when he was considering getting an iMac but decided on the Pro instead – and I wholly agree with that decision because the Pro is a true tower. The...