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Mark's PC Hardware / Reviews Blog August 2008 Archive

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Sony Support Profile

Friday August 29, 2008
Sony is one of the biggest names in consumer electronics and over the past ten years they have grown into a big name for consumer personal computers. While their desktop ... Read More

Best Buy's Budget Gateway Laptop

Thursday August 28, 2008
Image Courtesy Gateway Budget laptops are becoming extremely popular with consumers because of economic times. The market is being eroded somewhat from the new trend of netbook systems. Still, budget laptops ... Read More

A Netbook From a Lightbulb Company

Tuesday August 26, 2008
Image Courtesy Sylvania Most people are probably more familiar with Sylvania for their production of lightbulbs and electric appliances. This makes it kind of surprising that they are releasing a netbook ... Read More

Low Cost Everex Netbook

Monday August 25, 2008
ASUS may have made the first netbook available in the US market, but they were followed shortly after by the Everex CloudBook. The CloudBook offered many similar features to the ... Read More

Shuttle Support Profile

Friday August 22, 2008
Shuttle Computers has only been in the business of building complete desktop computer systems for a few years. Prior to that, they made a name for themselves building PC components ... Read More

MSI's Wind Netbook Computer

Thursday August 21, 2008
Image Courtesy MSI Computers There have been lots of companies entering the netbook market. Many of them are just copying the designs of the early ASUS Eee models. MSI has decided ... Read More

HP's Non-Intel Netbook

Wednesday August 20, 2008
Image Courtesy HP While much of the hype on the netbook computers right now comes from the new low power Intel Atom processsor, they are not the only company on the ... Read More

Yet Another ASUS Eee Netbook Model

Tuesday August 19, 2008
Image Courtesy ASUS ASUS was the first company to really introduce a low cost subnotebook computer with the Eee PC 701 unit. The small and inexpensive unit revolutionized the portable market ... Read More

Acer's Answer to the Netbook Market

Monday August 18, 2008
Image Courtesy Acer With the release of the Intel Atom processor, a flood of new netbook products is coming to the market. With each new product announcement though, the features and ... Read More

Polywell Computer Support Profile

Friday August 15, 2008
Consumers are familiar with companies such as Dell, Gateway, HP, Compaq and even Sony now when it comes to computers. This makes it difficult for companies such as Polywell to ... Read More

Best Mainstream Desktop PCs

Thursday August 14, 2008
There has been a fairly significant change in the mainstream desktop market in the past few months. This segment was generally geared towards those looking at a strong performing general ... Read More

Gateway's Centrino 2 Gaming Laptop

Thursday August 14, 2008
Image Courtesy Gateway Intel's new Centrino 2 processor and chipset combination promises to bring a number of new features to laptop computers. Gateway has decided to put this new combination into ... Read More

Desktop Quality Over Performance?

Wednesday August 13, 2008
Image Courtesy Velocity Micro Velocity Micro is a systems integrator that prides themselves on producing high quality systems. This comes from the name brand components they use to build their desktop ... Read More

Polywell's Phenom Powered Desktop

Tuesday August 12, 2008
Image Courtesy Polywell Computers AMD has had huge success in the past ten years in penetrating the server market thanks to some innovative processor designs. It has had a bit of ... Read More

iBUYPOWER's Desktop Powerhouse?

Monday August 11, 2008
Image Courtesy iBUYPOWER iBUYPOWER is a system integrator company that you may not have heard of. The company produces a wide range of computer options that fit most budgets. Most of ... Read More

HP's Updated Elite Desktop Media Center

Friday August 8, 2008
Image Courtesy HP Inc. HP's Pavilion Elite series of desktop computers were developed as a merging of performance desktop PCs and their media centers. They incorporated features that made them suitable ... Read More

Lenovo Support Profile

Friday August 8, 2008
Lenovo has made some major changes to the product lines since they took over IBM's computer division. They still retain the extremely popular ThinkPad line, but also produce a more ... Read More

A Solid Performance PC At Reasonable Prices

Thursday August 7, 2008
Image Courtesy Gateway Many of the computer companies would have you think that you would need to spend upwards of two thousand dollars to get a desktop PC that can provide ... Read More

Dell's Midsized XPS Desktop

Wednesday August 6, 2008
Image Courtesy Dell Dell's XPS desktop product line has had a gap in it for some time. The XPS 210 has limited performance appeal while the XPS 730 is too expensive ... Read More

A Gaming Rig Loaded With System RAM

Tuesday August 5, 2008
Image Courtesy CyberpowerPC As technology improves and computer prices drop, the emphasis of the mainstream desktop PC market has shifted more towards PC gaming. Many of the systems priced near $1000 ... Read More

Alienware's Affordable Gaming Desktop PC

Monday August 4, 2008
Image Courtesy Alienware Alienware is a name that has been associated with PC gaming for some time. Their signature system is the Area-51 desktop system. This is a fairly high end ... Read More

Hypersonic Support Profile

Friday August 1, 2008
Even though Hypersonic was purchased by OCZ Technologies, their support services don't seemed to have changed all that much. There was some confusion at first, but they seem to have ... Read More
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