Tag archive: pc upgrades

After three years together, things just aren’t the same between you and your PC. While friends play new games on their shiny new all-in-one machines, videoconference on Skype with their built-in webcams, and run the swank Aero edition of Windows Vista, your clunky old machine won’t handle any of it. We’ve already addressed some simple software tricks for speeding up your computer before you go and start buying new parts, but the last… Read More

You can find entire websites and enthusiast communities dedicated to cutting your Windows boot time by milliseconds and squeezing every last drop of visual performance from your system in high-end games like Crysis, but what does the average Joe do when his once-trusty steed begins to limp? Put her down and buy a new one, usually. That’s a pretty poor option when many people are struggling to even make rent and pay mortgages, and as most… Read More

In December of 2005, the housing boom that began a decade earlier continued its crazy uphill ride, seemingly oblivious to a variety of red flags appearing across the country. By October of 2007, that boom had revealed itself as one very big, very hurtful bubble, and home prices were sliding steeply downhill. Yet you wouldn't know it by looking at the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index, as it obliviously surged past the 14000 mark for the… Read More