Laptop or Tower by Alastair Harris
When asking the question which is better to buy a tower/workstation or a laptop the question used to come down to the size of your wallet. For a long time PC towers were simply cheaper than a laptop to buy. Normally half the price for the same specifications. ... Towers on the other hand are fixed to a single workplace unless you get some sick joy out of lugging wires and equipment from one place to another and figuring out where every connection goes. ... I hope this article has helped you with your next computer purchase decision.

Social Considerations for Artificial Intelligence by Noel Anthony Pierre
According to Dennis Gorelik, a single perceived weakness of an AIS (meaning, an artificial intelligence society, consisting of computers trained to 'think') is that it was not born through natural selection as human beings are. But one could view whether this is a disadvantage or an advantage... In WIRED magazine’s new issue, for example, writer Kevin Kelly describes the internet’s home for AI as being a breeding ground for a single consciousness by billions of people and situations. ... We will still have to use our good ol’ noggins, because you can’t eat or drink silicone chips, and what...

History of the Computer: Cooling, Part 2 of 2 by Tony Stockill
Computer manufacturers specified the heat load required to be handled, the required flow of conditioned air, and the temperature to be measured at the cabinet entry points. Most systems were installed on false floors, with a space of about 1 meter or 3ft below the floor. ... The computer user already provides a close tolerance power supply, sometimes at different frequencies, such as 400Hz instead of 50 or 60. ... The computer logic circuits were assembled on multilayer PCBs ( or PCAs - Printed Circuit Boards or Arrays) which were 'plugged in' to the backplane.

Choosing An Ultra-Portable Laptop For Your Computer Needs by Elizabeth Lord
When choosing a laptop, portability is often a key feature. When you are traveling with your laptop frequently, taking your laptop on planes and long drives makes weight (or lack of weight) extremely important. Certainly, no one wants to be carting a ten-pound monster of a laptop in and out of a... The CPU is high-powered enough in most laptops to function at a business level without spending extra for a more expensive chip. ... Best Reviewed Laptops • Sony VAIO VGN-TX770P • Toshiba Portege R200 • Averatec 1000 • Dell Latitude X1 Laptop manufacturers have seen the future, and are in...

Surge Protector: A Simple Mechanism Description by T.L. McMullen
A surge protector [AKA surge suppressor] is an electrical plug-in device designed to distribute safe electrical voltages to other electrical or electronic devices. Surge protectors resemble power strips in appearance; however, they are more sophisticated and deliver a constant, continuous power... “How Surge Protectors Work” www.computer.howstuffworks.com 15 Sep. ... Unprotected computers can suffer hardware degradation and extensive damage when exposed to power surges (Power Protect Your Computer).

Dusting Your Computer - Keeping it Cool by Steve Perlow
My mother always told me to dust, but I never did, mostly because I was lazy, but also because I couldn't find any tangible benefit to dusting. I just didn't see how I'd benefit from my room or my things being less dusty. Well now I've gotten a bit older, and I finally found a reason to dust - a... Dusting the computer As I said, I've never dusted a computer before, but I came up with what ended up being a reasonable plan. ... I made sure to unplug my computer, grounded myself to discharge static electricity by touching something metal other than my computer, opened up the case and was...

Alienware vs Rockdirect vs Dell : Finding the Best Gaming Laptop by Titus Hoskins
So you want to buy a gaming laptop. But not just any old gaming laptop, you want to buy the best gaming machine on the planet, the best gaming machine money can buy -- the fastest, the most powerful, the ultimate kick-ass, take no prisoners, meanest motherboard of all gaming laptops. ... Also be on the lookout for Intel's Dual Core Notebook Chip dubbed Yonah , it will be somewhat different in that this notebook chip will not only have two cores but these cores will share a 2MB cache which will greatly boost performance.

Where are We Going: .NET vs Java? by James Arendt
What in the world is going on in the marketplace? Technology is moving so fast that it is sometimes a little difficult to tell what is happening. Let’s take a short trip back to the past. It wasn’t too long ago that applications were designed, developed, and deployed on a single machine. ... For those of you that can remember the early days of the personal computer era, things like dbase, FoxBASE, and the like might ring a bell. ... If one were to look closely, one could see that the general architecture that makes Java so popular is that the output of the compiler is not necessarily tied...

Screenshots Vista Windows by Adam Fletcher
Features Additionally, Vista will include many other new features. Aero Vista will include a completely re-designed user interface, code-named Aero. The new interface is intended to be cleaner and more aesthetically pleasing than previous Windows interfaces. ... The "My" prefixes will be dropped, so "My Documents" will just be "Documents", "My Computer" will just be "Computer", etc. ... Apart from the typical file organization practice of using folders to contain files, a new collection known as Lists let you organize files from multiple locations in a single place.