Well, after many months of wanting to do it, I have finally built myself my own computer. It was great fun – for a tech nerd like me – and it also saved me a lot of money! Here’s what I bought myself: An AMD Entry Level Barebones PC kit costing £140 – that includes …
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Jul
01
2009
USB 3.0 to be shipping with PCs by end of year!
It’s good to know that USB 3.0 is expected to start arriving on PCs and laptops from the end of this year. The new Superspeed USB means that transfer speeds will rise from 480mbps to a whopping 5gbps. That means that if you are constantly transferring big files to USB drives, you’re in luck. It’s …
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Jun
06
2009
Rumour: Windows 7 Free Upgrade Program starting 26th June?
There’s a little rumour going around the internet at the moment. If you remember, when the launch of Windows Vista was approaching, Microsoft did a ‘Free Upgrade’ program, meaning that users who bought a PC with Windows XP Media Center 2005 from a certain date (I think that was the case – maybe it was …
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