Windows 7

The idea of an Apple Tax is expressed in many ways from the traditional “z0mg!! MacBook costs $300 more than HP!!1!1!!” to cost analyses of the components going into each machine. The Apple Tax is often seen as an arbitrary price increase on hardware bought from Apple. The tax rate has fluctuated over recent years [...]

This past month we had a rather condensed month on Informer. September started off with a wrap up in my Windows 7 and Snow Leopard series. Next up was a look at the upcoming Call of Duty game Modern Warfare 2 or Modern Warfare Déjà Vu. Runescape brought us the next quest in the Chaos [...]

As you may or may not know Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) was released on August 28th. Windows 7 is due out officially on October 22. both of these operating systems are marketed as “fixing” or “refining” their predecessors. Snow Leopard is introducing new technologies that will propel Mac OS further to 10.7 and possibly [...]

Welcome once again to July, the first full month of summer! This month we started of with What’cha wearing? Part 4 courtesy of Jason. Part 5 was also published later in the month. Next up was The Hunt for Red Raktuber, the continuation of the Penguin story line courtesy of Kirby. June also brought us the [...]

With the upcoming release of Windows 7 this October I’ve been facing a flurry of questions about what version to choose. Ultimately 95% of you will want to stick with Home Premium, this is half of the battle. The other half of the decision is deciding which architecture you will use, 64-bit or 32-bit. Most [...]

As you may remember in part 1 of this experiment I outlined the general purpose and my expectations. With that said if you’ve not read it please go back and do so. This part will cover the post-experiment review and also compare Windows 7 to Leopard. Using Windows 7 full time was hard, at [...]

Shwa opened the month with a fascinating article about The Geology of Runescape. Next up was Kenny with a review of Resident Evil 5. Jason continued with his What’cha wearing? series with Part 3. As we move closer to the release of Windows 7 Paul took a look at the Release Candidate. [...]

Almost a month ago the Windows 7 Release Candidate was released, we won’t be talking about that today. If you want to find out more about Windows 7 in general check out Paul’s article. What we will be doing is a nifty little experiment that will make all Windows fanboys giggle as if [...]

Not too long ago, I wrote an article on the Beta release of Windows 7. Microsoft has moved on, and the build numbers have gone up. The official Release Candidate was released on May 5th, 2009 available to any and all users for download from Microsoft through July.. « Older Entries —