Windows 7 First Impression
on Nov 4, 2009 in windows 7 This is not the full review of Windows 7 you have been waiting for, but it is a glance at my first impression of the OS.  I received the OS yesterday and I was quick to unpack and install it. It was anything but quick to upgrade from Vista to Window...

Happy Birthday Internet!
on Nov 3, 2009 in internet 40th birthday I know this is a little late as the internet turned 40 on the 29th of October, but that is no reason to forget it.  Many will argue that the internet is nothing to celebrate, while others would call those people crazy.  Which ever side you are on y...

Windows 7 Review - or sort of...
on Oct 27, 2009 in Windows 7 review Microsoft Firstly I would like to apologize to my readers for not posting in a month.  No I have not forgot about PC Talk or do I plan on forgetting about it. If you have not heard that Windows 7 has been released, you probably have been hiding in a hole thi...

Windows 7 News
on Sep 28, 2009 in windows 7 windows 7 student upgrade $30 First some news for Netbook users, Windows 7 for netbooks will not be watered down at all.  Microsoft will not alter Windows 7 to act a certain way or add any limitations for netbooks.  The past rumor of only three apps running at once is no more a...

Panda Cloud Anti Virus
on Sep 21, 2009 in Panda Security cloud antivirus cloud computing I am sure many of you have heard of cloud computing by now, it is supposed to be the next big thing.  I'm not writing this article to explain cloud computing, but I will give you a brief outline of what it is. Cloud computing is basically a piece o...

PC Wizard 2009
on Sep 20, 2009 in benchmarking PC Wizard 2009 CPUID If you are a regular reader of PC Talk then you probably have heard me talk about PC Wizard quite a bit and you may have read some reviews on it. Many of you don't really know what it is and why it is one of those "must have" applications...

$99 Quad Core Athlon II X4 and New GPUs from AMD!
on Sep 16, 2009 in radeon 5000 series $99 Quad Core Athlon II X4 radeon 5850 radeon 5870 AMD has announced that the Athlon II X4 will sell for $99 bucks. Yes you heard it correctly, a quad core CPU for under a hundred dollars. So what's the catch? Well the main catch is that the transistor count was reduced severely compared to the Ph...

Sharp 100GB Blu Ray?
on Sep 14, 2009 in build your own PC 100GB blu-ray discs HD televisions playstation Sharp Blu-ray xbox DVD Sharp announced recently that they had developed a new laser that can read triple or even quadruple layer Blu-ray discs. At 25GB per layer this could pack 100GB on each Blu-ray disc. All I can say is wow. I remember back 10 years ago when I though...

ATI Eyefinity
on Sep 10, 2009 in AMD Eyefinity AMD Dragon Platform ATI ATI has had some pretty cool things up their sleeve over the last while and the newest technology from ATI is sure to add to them. Meet ATI's Eyefinity. What is it? Well with the next gen graphics cards from ATI featuring dirextx11 technology com...

Speed Up Windows Boot Time
on Sep 7, 2009 in fast boot time windows vista msconfig speed up windows boot time One of the most common complaints of PC users, most noticeably of Windows Vista are of slow boot times. There are several reasons for slow boot times. The most common include the number of processes at start up, virus' and malware and start up sett...