How Graphics Cards Work

Mar 14, 2012 by

How Graphics Cards Work

Intro to How Graphics Cards Work Courtesy of How Stuff Works / Written by Jeff Tyson and Tracy V. Wilson   The images you see on your monitor are made of tiny dots called pixels. At most common resolution settings, a screen displays over a million pixels, and the computer has to decide what to do with every one in order to create an image. To do this, it needs a translator — something...

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Your Future Desktop Will Be a Supercomputer

Mar 6, 2012 by

Your Future Desktop Will Be a Supercomputer

1,000 Core CPU Achieved: Your Future Desktop Will Be a Supercomputer BY Kit Eaton | 01-04-2011 | 10:33 AM Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Lowell laugh in the face of Intel’s weedy handful of cores in its new CPU lineup: They’ve just squeezed over a thousand processor cores onto a single chip. We’ve heard a lot about the potential for future desktop-sized...

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Windows 8 Computers to Have Remote Kill Switch

Feb 25, 2012 by

Windows 8 Computers to Have Remote Kill Switch

The Kill Switch Comes to the PC A feature common in phones will let Microsoft remotely disable malware By Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg Business Week   Janne Kytömäki, a Finnish software developer, was cruising Google’s (GOOG) Android Market for smartphone apps last year when he noticed something strange. Dozens of best-selling applications suddenly listed the same wrong publisher. It was...

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Top 5 Reasons to Buy a Used or Refurbished Laptop

Feb 23, 2012 by

Top 5 Reasons to Buy a Used or Refurbished Laptop

If you’re thinking of buying a laptop, but aren’t interested in paying a lot, one really smart option is to buy a refurbished laptop. Many consumers have reluctance to buying a used laptop fearing it may stop working shortly after buying it or that the price makes it too good to be true. These are just a couple of myths that come with buying a refurbished laptop. Looking at a cost-benefit...

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