performance

If you click Start and then Games, you'll see a box in the lower right corner that says "Check your computer's Performance Information". Underneath that you'll see "Current System" followed by a number. What's your number? You can also find it in Control Panel by selecting Performance...

As the title implies, I'm trying to get back in the saddle, spec wise, before buying a laptop for working on. One of the laptops I'm currently ogling, has an Intel 1.66 GHz Dual Core chip while the other has an AMD64 3.20 GHz (1.6 GHz) single core chip. The AMD one is slightly cheaper, due to...

Interesting paper with a collection of studies on health, technology and economic performance. How did the West become rich? Amartya Sen,an economist and recently President of the American Economics Association, has pointed out that an important marker of the success of an economy is the...

I just made the mistake of purchasing an audio magazine. Inside, there is a review of different audio power cords. These just take mains electricity from the socket on the wall the three feet or so to the connector on the back of the amplifier. The prices range from $120 to $220, with the...

My parents and sister have been yelling at me for literally years , insisting that when I leave a CD in the drive, it makes the computer actually run slower. Odd, you know, that I've never noticed this effect myself, even though I have about 10 times more computer knowledge/experience. I 'd...

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