The computer world is a world of fast change.  To fast in fact, that processing power is said to double ever 18 months.  So, at the 0 month, speed could be said to be 33Mhz.  At the 18th month, speed would then be 66MHz.  At the 36th month, speed would then be 133MHz, and so [...]

For the first time in their life, Intel had to back track recently.  After the release of the famed 1GHz Pentium iii, Intel had to release the 850Mhz and 866Mhz Pentium iii processors.  That’s very different from what AMD did recently.  While Intel released their 1GHz processor with no lower clocked cousins, AMD released 900, [...]

Prices on computer systems keep falling with ever major advancement in computer technology.  The most recent being the “Low Cost” CPU market.  Of course, that is not the only thing that has drove the prices of computer systems down.  Many other things contribute to the appearance of Low Cost PCs. Many Home users, that are [...]

The portable computer has come a long way from it’s early days as a monitor sized computer, which you could take to your hotel room, plug in, and use like a normal computer of the day.  Now, we have computers the size of notebooks and sketch pads.  It’s all because of advances in technology that [...]

First, RAM prices rose sharply after a earthquake in Taiwan, which had little to no effect on the average prices.  Now they are slowly falling back down where they should be, at about $1.1-.9 per MB.  But now we are seeing gas prices rise sharply.  Here in Wisconsin, prices are about US$1.65 per gallon.  On [...]

A week or so back, sources “leaked” information that Microsoft would go open source if that would get them out of prosecution by the Department of Justice.  This is obviously false.  If Microsoft were to go open source, we would have millions of different types of Windows Variants running around, just as we do with [...]

No, wait…I think I have that subtitle backwards.  They are crazy, I’m the one that’s correct.  AMD and Intel have raced from 700Mhz to 1GHz in the matter of about a month or two.  I found myself recently asking myself: “ARE THEY OUT OF THEIR FREAKING MINDS??!?!?” You bet they are.  What type of business [...]

If you’ve been surfing the internet for any amount of time, looking for computer information, you’re sure to have stumbled upon www.tomshardware.com, run by a man that goes by the name, Tom Pabst.  You may know his site from the in-depth technical summaries of processors, RAM, Hard Drives, or all of the above.  He’s the [...]

I finally got a hold of a pre-release copy of Windows 2000.  I’m running it right now.  I must say that it’s a great OS.  It’s got the stability and features of Windows NT, with the usability.  To tell you the truth, Win2K runs better and boots faster than Windows 98 or Windows 2000 Beta [...]

I’m a total idiot.  For the past 2 weeks, I forgot to change the bottom of the two sneak peaks in the “Next Issue” Table at the bottom of the Transistorized and Tormented series.  Please help me out and e-mail me when this happens.  If you’re the first one to catch me, you’ll win something.  [...]