Figures released for the last quarter by IDC and Gartner show that, despite rumblings at HP that included rumours about dropping their entire PC division, the truly unprecedented Touchpad fire sale and the unceremonious dumping of their CEO, the PC maker still maintains the top spot and has indeed grown their lead in the last [...]

Categories: companies

Each Dell system, regardless whether it is a workstation, laptop, handheld or TV has a service tag attached to it that is needed for various support requests on the Dell homepage and via Dell’s customer support hotlines. While it is usually not a problem to locate the service tag on the device if you are [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Laptops come in all shapes and sizes these days from tiny netbooks to sexy ultraportables and everyday value machines.  Then however there are the workstations.  These laptops are designed with the needs of CAD designers, video production and engineering and geology projects in mind.  They pack the very finest and the best of everything and come [...]

Categories: Hardware

Leaks are our primary source of information at this point in development when it comes to Microsoft’s next operating system Windows 8. According to an internal tablet roadmap Dell is planing to release a Windows 8 powered Tablet codenamed Peju in the first quarter of 2012. The interesting aspect of this is not that Dell [...]

Categories: Windows

This is the continuation of the last post that rounds up the latest on the popular smartphones of the moment. Of course, their smartness is highly relative – like whether your last phone had a color display or not and whether the rock that was over you was volcanic in origin. There’s a lot happening [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Google, Google Android, Mobiles, Nokia

Dell has released a Nvidia GPU (Graphics Processing Units) Bios Update for several Dell notebooks on their Dell Direct website. Nvidia confirmed earlier this month that some notebook GPUs were affected caused by a weak die packaging material set. The GPU may fail due to temperature fluctuations and users may experience symptoms like random characters [...]

Categories: Notebooks

First Dell PCs with AMD chips and now Dell PCs with Linux preinstalled. It seems that Dell finally managed to see that giving its customers a choice is the way to go in this matter. Linux has some advantages over PCs that ship with Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows XP. The first and most prominent one is of course the price tag. Dell can reduce the costs that customers have to pay for a PC even further and advertise this properly.

Categories: Hardware, Linux, Operating Systems

Did you ever buy a new computer from manufacturers like Dell, HP or Sony ? If you did you know that those computers come loaded with a bunch of preinstalled software products that are normally not very useful and use valuable disk space. One option would be to uninstall one product after the other until you have every last one of them removed from your new computer.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows