The fastest PC in a recent PCW Top Desktops chart appears to be the ABS Ultimate M6, based on its WorldBench 5 score of 122.
However, if you're on a budget like I am, you might be interested in something less expensive. So, use the "Test Report" link in our Top 100 Charts to view the WorldBench 5 score for each system--that makes it easy to find the fastest PC that fits your budget.
Here are some sample WorldBench 5 results: This Dell Dimension 3000 desktop from the recent Top Cheap PCsTop Cheap PCs chart, is very inexpensive, but scored a meager 62 on WorldBench 5. Here's the IBuyPower LAN-Party Mini PC, another desktop that chart. It turned in score of 80.
To check for yourself, simply pick one of the following charts and click the "Test Report" links: Top 15 Desktop PCs, Top Entertainment PCs, Top Cheap PCs, Top 15 Notebook PCs, and Top Wide-Screen Notebooks.
Want to know more about Worldbench 5? It's all explained here.
Ha!
I type "reaktor" (a sound generation software instrument), I get the home site of the manufacturer (Native Instruments), I see a little binoculars icon, mouse over it and see a snapsot of the Native Instruments home site (cool), I click the binoculars icon and I end up at microsoft.com! What?
Jeeves.com does not get a second chance from me.
Google, unlike Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and others actualy gets you where you want. You type in a software name in Google you get the manufactor's site first. Not Amazon wanting you to buy the title. (Im talking about the non-add sections) Not so in Ask Jeeves.
What would it take for me to switch from Google? Years. Years of steady, reliable, non-ad-intrusive service. Nothing less.
I Purchased a Benq 1655 for the Lightscribe. It came with 1 piece of media which burned the image rather quickly. I then used memorex media and it seems to take forever for the same image/text. 1 image took 3 hours. Anyone else experience this?
HOLY CRAP! After 6 months of trying to figure out why my Lightscribe DVDs look like crap I finaly found out from all of you that HP made it that way. I thought I was the only one. My lightscribe CDs look awesome and the DVDs look terrible. I thought the drive needed updates. I updated. I thought the software needed updates. I updated. I thought the drive needed a different brand of DVDs. I switched brands. I finally concluded that I got a lemon. Then, out of the blue, I find this message board and lo and behold... we've all been deceived. The advertisment I saw showed a CD! HP you suck! I thought I was taking crazy pills!
My CDs came out with BLEAK images after LightScribe burning. I expected much better contrast. I have not tried to do second pass as recommended above by another user. Typical burning time was 17min. I am using Samsung OEM drive (got from MicroCenter, Houston, TX a week ago; comes with Nero software package). I used trial version of SureThing to compose CD labels.
My Treo still has software issues and here are these pinheads blathering on about how much they like each other and what they are going to name the company, cake anyone?
Plam and its os are great products. I own every single palm produced and each one offers better services than the one before it. This is not just a PR stunt. Check out plams new product called the Life Drive. The hardware is great which was developed by palmone. But Plam Source developed the os that allows the hardware todo the things that it does, without it the hardware would be useless. The combo of these two compaines is simply great.
I still call them Palm Pilots! It still feels wrong to talk about one as "my Palm".
I have one--bought it on clearance at Target. It's good for a few laughs.
I just go one of these for about $3 on clearance at Kohls. I actually bought 2. I put one at home, and a pink one on my desk at work. It makes me smile, and is kind of mesmerizing and relaxing to watch. Thumbs up from me!
Now to look for the car one...
I wish it bubbled not glittered.
I am on a Mac G4 withOS 9.2. For starters, I KNOW I need to upgrade everything, so chill and answer me this: Is a Planer PL2010 20.1" monitor a good deal and compatible with the Mac I'm on? It is less than $400.
I guess the real revolution would be when a single monitor can handle multitasking without the issue of minimising windows. Though this would mean a larger monitor size, it would still be better than a dual monitor.
Since we are not there yet - its a good deal!
I would go for the "MasterPlex" over at CineMassive Displays, if I was tshooting for uber-geek status. But for pure multi-monitor utility I'd think something liketheir 21X would be ideal - the 21.3" center displays in landscape with 17" "wings" in portrait looks pretty versatile to me.
The above link probably won't work...
http://www.cinemassivedisplays.com
Yumgo.com might be an alternative for those that do not use all the google features. I use it all the time because they are unbiased therefore you can use a variety of different search engines, news, email and more customization. Yumgo.com reminds me of Google with thirdparty add ons. There is also no need to login with yumgo, your preference are stored in your cookie.
Wish BMY and XOM stock quotes. Would like more news on major WTA tournaments and current movies added to my Google Home page.
THANK YOU.
I use Gumpage as a starting page. It's very simple and I use it all the time.
What if you held a major convention called the Electronic Entertainment Expo, and on opening day there was no electricity? That's what happened here at E3 in Los Angeles today, where a power outage slowed the start of the world's largest meeting of electronic gaming minds. While there appeared to be power in all of the LA Convention Center's main halls (where the majority of vendors shows their wares), large portions of the West Hall section were quite literally dark.
As luck would have it, the second-floor of the West Hall is where the press registration and working room resides. Journalists, never a happy bunch in the morning before their free coffee, arrived at the press room to find paper signs directing them to a makeshift registration tent outside the convention center.
I followed a large, grumbling bunch to the tent area, where super-long lines had already formed. I was lucky enough to have my badge already--I just needed a more easily attained badge holder--but those who had yet to register appeared to be in for a long wait in the LA sun. (I later talked to friend who confirmed the long wait: He stood in line for more than two hours to get his badge.)
Sure, we journalists had it bad (you try covering a show with no Internet access). But what about those vendors with the swanky off-the-show-floor suites with no juice? Can you imagine trying to sell a next-generation video game to investors using paper PowerPoint slides?
Andrew you the nerd
XBOX 360!!! IT ROKS ps3 is going down!!!!! i have a XBXO and am surely getting XBOX 60 simply beacause PS3 suks And 360 graphics rok etc.. etc..
How about you all grow up and shut up over who is better. They both will be great and you all know it. Just choose your system to tailer your style of playing , hand size for controller use and your style games. Both systems will have alot of the same games will small diffrences and both will have exclusive great games that will get awsome reviews. So you can have good fun with both. Only advantage either of them have over each other when you really talk about it is xbox will be first so that we can enjoy it earlier. But ps3 will have more time to refine and not make the same mistakes microsoft may in the launch. We will see.. :)
u will buy the ps3 then play the nintendo wii (revolotion) an say wy did i buy the ps3 an spend all my money on buying it i could hav bourt the nintendo and more games
Wow that person who said ps3 sucks has problems, if you're a microsoft fanboy say you love xbox 360 and dont say the ps3 sucks, anyways the ps3 is also a pc and x 360 is not.
you make me sick........just shut the @%$& up, and anyways ps3 is better.
i had read up their somewhere that ps3 has better graphics then xbox 360! uumm check your information again cause they are the same!
oh and xbox 360 will win cause its cheaper and the games will be cheaper and cause of halo 3!!!
halo is called a system saler!
i was going to get a ps3 until they said that they were not going to make a remake of final fantasy VII
now that game is a system saler!
all u lil stupid zbox tbox or w/e its called bow down ps3 is gonna whipe the floor with u lil fools!! just admit it u sorry losers that u bought the wrong system. u say its better hu?!??!/! but the facts dont lie check out a website or to read the stats u dumb lil tbox players!! halo??? hahahha giv me a break!
how can i take my playstation apart.
I think ps3 is the best from all angles of vision
Let the big N reclaim it's spot as the Ultimate gaming machine!
i have high hopes for the revolution but im not too sure about the new controllers!?!? i dont think i will like just using one hand for gameplay. it would be more like changing the channel on your tv than playing a game.
at least give the option of using one or two hands
Dude (red hand) you totally ruined the film for me now. I didn't know Luke and Leia had a another brother. Probably was really strong with the force too. Think before you post next time!
I think he was joking about the additional "brother". If it were true, the bringing balance to the Force would not be with three force sensitive children. Through Anakin, the birth of Luke and Leia brings balance to the Force.`
Hey, the guy (red dude) was only joking. nothing is in it about thrid bro or sister.
you sony fanboys are dumbasses why are you in a blog with xbox if you love your sony so much
yes i can agree, the xbox 360 is a nice system, i have platyed it, its great for the price of around 500$, and the price of 60$ a game, why spend that kinda money when you can go get a PC, for alittle, more but it WILL KICK THE LIVING HELL OUT OF XBOX go find the AMD FX clocked at 5 to 5.3 gig a hertz, and the new ATI saphire video card, you will spend alot more money on thoses to but they will still kick the xbox's 360s butt, in about 2 to 3 years, when xbox makes something better than the 360 that will still not tuch a computer. and in march the PS3 will come out and blow away the xbox then the nitendo will comeout and blow them both away, i have they computer i just told you about and call of duty 2 looks 5 times better on my PC than on Xbox. its your money think about it
thats very true computers are much better than all gaming consoles. For instance the xbox p3 733mhz and ps2 233mhz it goes to show that its not realy worth it.
i only srew around with systems.
With the technology of having a one size fits all swiss army knife to tackle and use the internet everwhere. This at first seems like a good idea. Yet the downside to this is if one component fails, and you have everything in that one component ; then you you have to send the entire thing for repair along with your configuration and data stored in the hard drive and your bookmarks and e-mails together with it. So my take on this, is modular sepparate component that can be upgraded inidividualy so that you have access to other stuff you place in it. Sharp makes a little notebook called the MM20, I use it as a laptop if I dont reallyt want to carry a laptop computer. Its primarily for use in PowerPoint Presentations or quick excel spreadsheet reading...but I never use it as my main laptop, since it is limited in data storage. I carry a Gigabyte thumb drive with all my data in it. But in a pinch its better than not having anything. Suggested comment..."DONT" buy the SONY despite its claim, for the same amount of money you can assemble a similar laptop but using Verizon ( much better) if you do decide to pursue buying the thing, you will become obselete in the next 6 months, as technology changes that fast! and you are limited by what you have as hardware, if newer things come around, you would have an issue with unupgradability. Dont tie yourself down buying a one size fits all, technology changes every six, if not in the hardware, it would be in the Firm whare ( drivers for your components that make the system ) Sony is notorious for leaving you in the dust when it comes to SOny Laptops, I have bought Two of them, over 3 years time. They are not robusts units - very fragile...Fujitsu is seems to be better supporting their laptops....modularity is key here not a swiss army knife. Think about this...
In the future they should make notebooks with everything modular. This removable hard drives, memory chips, and drive bays that can be switched at the press of a button.
I installled Toger the Day it came put and it runs absolutley perfect! Our family power book is a biut laggy, but my emac is funking spedy! doing the archiuve and isntall, I accidently lost a few things (inlcuding a critical CS files that lets you open stiuff from the finder; not I have to slect file/open...) dashvboard is reall neat, and my archive was pretty much unnesicery! Oh yeah.. and XP is the worst peice of computer crap that man has coneived! I hate XP!
I've used Windows for the past decade, from 98 till XP, and just recently switched to Mac OS X. I waited a long long while to get the Mac OS X Tiger Upgrade because I bought my PowerBook just a bit after the official release so it wasn't preloaded yet, but now I'm having fun with Dashboard Widgets. I'm not gonna go downloading weird widgets off the net so I'm not too worried about the "proof of concept" thingie up there ;) Spotlight has been real cool too. Windows or Mac OS X? Do you even have to ask?
I have been using tiger at my job since it's release. I am a desktop operator/graphic designer. We run all updated versions of adobe and rampage rip.
The concept and creativesness of widgets is out of this world. Its definetly out of the box thinking. I do agree it needs to be tweaked. I believe the widget capabilities are the reason apple charged for this new upgrade. Which in my opinion, is worth it. I find the best use of these widgets in traveling. If you were traveling someplace would you rather have a pc notebook or an apple powerbook with its widget power. Its a no brainer.
In all honesty there is no comparison between Tiger and any other PC operating system. Tiger by far, is superior, faster and more creative when it comes down to sheer graphics.
Now, as far as bugs with tiger, these are the bugs I have encountered according to my work-flow.
X My safari browser and Mail seem to illustrate weird characters.
XX My icalendar program defaults to the 17th
XXX Upon boot-up the computer stays at the spotlight screen.
I have tried several things to bypass some of these issues, but they eventually re-occur. Everything from updating permissions to running fsck -fy in single user mode.
Continue reading "How Far Does Spyware Reach?"
Generally, I don't reply to those demonstrating an inability to maintain self control.
It may be inspiring and rewarding to learn more about what's happening outside a computer room. My partial experience (posted above) along with the evidence speaks volumes of connections with "Internet Sleaze - Conspiracy Theories - Criminal Activities". Actually, the so called Conspiracy Theory isn't really a Theory but well known fact that I'm aware of. Don't forget, I have more than 30 years experience dealing with Organized Crime!
That really was my point, but sometimes it's missed OR there's a serious intention to try to stop me from getting the word out. To understand this more, it would require learning more about the following:
"Internet Sleaze" - My term, comes from Political Sleaze as its using technology for the same thing. Using the Internet to "track" those who are reading "sensitive" news reports and focus on "hacking" into their computers for purposes of stealing information on them, disrupt their system to stop them and feed other criminals with targeted information for further criminal activities.
"Conspiracy Theories" - Current News events including factual Indictments speaks volumes questioning an existence of a Conspiracy Theory. Again, with over 30 years experience with Organized Crime, this isn't a theory, its fact.
"Criminal Activities" - In Chicago, Mayor Daley's administration plus others (and in other states too) are wallowing in Corruption. Some of this pertains to "Pay to Play". However, this problem goes up and I mean all the way up. When I was married, they bragged that President Clinton was involved! So maybe one might want to research about Bush, Rove and Abramoff? Don't forget about the recent Indictments with Abramoff and the suspicious murder surrounding Abramoff's Casino business dealings? Then think for a moment about Clintons 30+ deaths or murders surrounding his administration too. While married I was told those deaths were murder. I was also told that Daley owns property in what's called a "Laundromat" made up of a small army of Real Estate Developers (my ex-in-laws are one of them) who launder criminal money for Political Corruption. Oh yes, I also know about other murders as well and like the others listed above, no one ever got caught! So YES, there is a connection, especially today with using the Internet to "Sleaze-ball" your way into someone's computer I have the hard drives which have IP addresses and a lot more to show who and what they were doing. And there isn't ANY commercial software out there that will touch it! You have to litterly dig it out with hacking tools, that's if you have the time.
Of course part of the Internet problem is hacking, but NOT all of it! The part everyone needs to be concerned with is the part that is run by Organized Crime. Their intent is to worm into every area that provides information for purposes of stealing money. OR they want to worm into any official's computer to learn what they talk about. Learning what an appointed board member(s) might want to do when Organized Crime wants something else is invaluable. How about, State Gaming Boards. They vote on Gambling Licenses which cost millions. It would be important to learn how they feel about a particular group who seeks owning a license. Plus City or Town Trustee's, learning how they feel about a particular situation is important to someone who wants them to vote for their interests.
My ex-in-laws are Real Estate Developers and they also launder money for Very Wide Scale Political Corruption, International Drug Distribution and Wide Scale Fraud. The connected criminals involved with them use the Internet for learning about others as in my description of Internet Sleaze.
Finally, there are those who have opinions and those who are part of the Internet Sleaze. It's really about behavior when you come down to it. When raising children, when they're bad and confronted, they immediately try to distract your focus and point you in another direction. It boils down to this one point, when you're involved in something which can put you at risk, you're expected to throw a fit otherwise you shouldn't even care.
Deep Throat II
From one of the idiots out there who is just coming to terms with all this. a quick question.
Both my mother in law's and my brothers PC's keep coming up with recomendation to go to various sites to download anti spyware, registra updates etc. etc. From what I can tell they appear to be the same ones and it also appears that they only come up when IE is running. Also they are both using the old fashioned dial up.
I on the other hand have ADSL and have never come up with this problem on any of my 15 office PC or 4 PC at home. Any ideas what it is they have and also how I get rid of it.
I have installed Lavasoft Adaware and cleaned their machines, and also Norton Antivirus, but basically am not sure where to go from there...Javacool spywareblaster seems to be a possability?
Deep Throat II:
Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't really after you.
The folks at RealNetworks seem to be running a clinic on how to alienate loyal customers and turn away new ones. Happily, after more than a week of customer complaints, the company appears to be moving to address recent problems with its popular Rhapsody music streaming service.
Last week Real launched a revamped version of the Rhapsody music player (version 3.0). The new player has a handful of cool new features, including the ability to manage all your personal music files. Plus, the company expanded its service to include portable subscriptions (for an extra $5 per month), so you can your take rented music with you on supported players like IRiver's H10. (Read Executive Editor Ed Albro's review of Rhapsody 3.0.)
All of this sounds pretty great. Too bad the new software is so buggy that Real had to re-issue the old version 2.1 software on its support site to keep subscribers from jumping ship. And even that stop-gap hasn't corrected everyone's problems.
I've talked to a handful of friends, all big fans of the service, and each of them has experienced some sort of problem with the new player and the service since last week's launch. Like me, most are experiencing occasional drop-outs in service. Another person hasn't been able to connect since installing the new software (she'd never had a single problem with the service prior to the upgrade; now she's ready to bail).
Ed is the only one I know to have tried the Rhapsody To Go service, which he never got to work. He's not alone: Real's support site has numerous posting from folks who have tried and failed to get the service to transfer files to their supported player.
Many of the people I know have resorted to going back to the old software, and for most, doing so has returned the service to its previous rock-solid stability (although one friend is still experiencing issues with drop outs).
Rhapsody fans are, judging by my friends, a pretty rabid bunch. Once you get a taste of the possibilities, it is hard to imagine going without the service. I would bet that a fair number of Rhapsody fans would volunteer to test beta software before a big launch. The prospect of working with Real to make a service they like even better would be pretty appealing--bugs and all.
Unfortunately, Real seems to have made its entire subscriber base into beta testers. A Rhapsody spokesperson says the company did do beta testing prior to launch, but it's pretty clear now this software needed further testing before a major rollout.
That same spokesperson says Real will update the 3.0 software early next week (it will likely be a forced update--everyone who signs in will get it). Hopefully, this fix isn't too little, too late for many frustrated subscribers.
Have you experiences any problems with Rhapsody? Sound off!
Do not upgrade to 3.1. Rhapsody 2.1 was working on all our computers just fine. We upgraded and now we have no service. On both computers one is celeron, one is a pentium M, it takes all cpu during launch and I dont know if it ever finishes, because I always kill it after a couple minutes of waiting.
Installed 3.1 on an older laptop that was given to me. Got it loaded, launched, and signed in...but then the sync library process just hangs and never finishes.
I had the old version and tried to upgrade....bad move; the program does not work any more. Tried all tricks of the trade, nothing, the program keep saying no internet even after downloading the program while logged into my account. Really tried all suggestion posted by customers.......I'm running roadrunner in a Compaq Presario.
And Steve Jobs isn?t "Shaft"ing Mac users with its $130 OS 10.4?
XP w/SP2 is a good OS, after finally taking the plunge from 98SE I'm very satisfied with its performance, some game compatibility issues aside. I only hope Longhorn doesn?t mess up a good thing and take years of maturity before it reaches the same level of robust operation.
Isn't Shadow Copy a feature of Windows Server 2003???
When you stand in oneplace everyone else seems to be walking away
