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Atricle Dump - 7 Things to Look For in a New Desktop PC
Are you a competitions enthusiast who enjoys researching and writing tie-breakers? Or do you prefer the laid-back approach, entering prize draws by writing your name and address on a postcard and sending it off? Whatever your choice, some magnificent prizes are available to you.Most successful 'compers' - colloquial for regular entrants - enter as many promotions as possible, whether these involve skill (answering questions, completing tie-breakers etc) or luck (names and addresses on postcards etc).I've won many great prizes myself over the years and these tips will help you enjoy similar success.* Look for elusive entry forms - such as for a recent Woolworths competition with five cars as first prizes. Forms were so scarce that only four people entered!* Spend as long as you can on any tie-breaker and do not enter the first thing that comes into yo
Intel's Celeron is a budget chip. If you do typical office duties and surf the web, you probably w
Book clubs have been quite a rage over the last few years. Fueled in part by Oprah and others, the concept of reading a book then gathering with others who have read the same book has become “cool” again.The reasons people have found them valuable include:- a great way to have meaningful conversation.- a way to support your own reading habit (I need to have the book read before the meeting!).- a way to form a community – to have a great reason to gather with other people to bond.- A way to learn something in a fun way.It is for all of those same reasons and more that I suggest and encourage business book clubs. Maybe you would like to start one within your organization or maybe you would prefer to build one among colleagues from outside of work. Either way this article will outline the keys to help you build a successful single event
Does your old clunker make wheezing noises when it boots up? Has your typing become faster than your computer? Tired of looking at the Windows hourglass for minutes at a time?
Perhaps it's time for a new desktop computer.
Computer manufacturers continue to struggle with weak business. Meanwhile, component manufacturers are making their goods smaller, faster and cheaper. The upshot: You can get a good deal on a powerful machine.
I can't recommend individual machines. They might not be on the market when you read this. Instead, let's go through the components that make up computers. Use these to help decide what you need.
Following are seven guide lines to ponder before you buy:
The Microprocessor
This is one of the most expensive parts. Microprocessors for Windows machines are made by Intel and AMD. Those for Apples are made by IBM and Motorola. So here's my first piece of advice: Don't worry so much about who makes the chip. All four are good. For Windows machines, you have a choice of the AMD Athlon XP, the Intel Pentium 4 and the Intel Celeron, an economy chip. The Pentium 4 and Athlon XP are upper end chips. The fastest Pentium 4 runs at 3.2 Gigahertz - a very fast speed indeed. It's also very expensive. The comparable AMD chip, the 3200+, is slightly less expensive.
You may need these fire-breathers if you're doing lots of video editing. Ditto if you're working with computer-aided design or playing advanced games. Otherwise, look to chips running at 2.4 GHz to 2.6 GHz (or 2400+ to 2600+, in AMD-powered machines). They're cheaper, and they perform nearly as well as the top-end chips.
Intel's Celeron is a budget chip. If you do typical office duties and surf the web, you probably wo
When many businesses start out they are often based at home. This is understandable for several reasons. Many business ideas stem from hobbies or interests and develop into commercial opportunities. Most new businesses start from home to keep costs down during the businesses infancy. Some businesses continue to operate from home as ecommerce, drop shipping and online shops has removed the need for an actual presence on the high street.Most home based businesses choose to operate as a limited company or sole trader. Either way the owners of the business have to consider whether or not they want to declare their home address as their main business address. Whilst some people may not have any problems with this there are a few points that should be considered.If you choose to use your home address for your business, this will be declared to the tax authorities, compan
Computer manufacturers continue to struggle with weak business. Meanwhile, component manufacturers are making their goods smaller, faster and cheaper. The upshot: You can get a good deal on a powerful machine.
I can't recommend individual machines. They might not be on the market when you read this. Instead, let's go through the components that make up computers. Use these to help decide what you need.
Following are seven guide lines to ponder before you buy:
The Microprocessor
This is one of the most expensive parts. Microprocessors for Windows machines are made by Intel and AMD. Those for Apples are made by IBM and Motorola. So here's my first piece of advice: Don't worry so much about who makes the chip. All four are good. For Windows machines, you have a choice of the AMD Athlon XP, the Intel Pentium 4 and the Intel Celeron, an economy chip. The Pentium 4 and Athlon XP are upper end chips. The fastest Pentium 4 runs at 3.2 Gigahertz - a very fast speed indeed. It's also very expensive. The comparable AMD chip, the 3200+, is slightly less expensive.
You may need these fire-breathers if you're doing lots of video editing. Ditto if you're working with computer-aided design or playing advanced games. Otherwise, look to chips running at 2.4 GHz to 2.6 GHz (or 2400+ to 2600+, in AMD-powered machines). They're cheaper, and they perform nearly as well as the top-end chips.
Intel's Celeron is a budget chip. If you do typical office duties and surf the web, you probably w
I’ve had it up to here with self-appointed sales experts who pop-off with nothing but disrespect for cold-calling.They don’t know what they’re talking about and they appeal to the worst possible motivation in other salespeople: The desire to get something for nothing.Cold calling takes work, and genuine salespeople don’t mind that one bit. As Vince Lombardi, the legendary Green Bay Packers coach said, true winners love to not only be on the field of play, but to leave it, exhausted, knowing they did their best.Show me someone who boasts that he “Prefers to work SMART, and not HARD,” and I’ll show you: (1) Either a certified genius who has found or built a perpetual motion machine; or (2) A liar, who not only deceives himself, but others, too.I tell them this: IT IS SMARTER TO WORK HARDER.There’s something else about the anti-cold callers that i
Following are seven guide lines to ponder before you buy:
The Microprocessor
This is one of the most expensive parts. Microprocessors for Windows machines are made by Intel and AMD. Those for Apples are made by IBM and Motorola. So here's my first piece of advice: Don't worry so much about who makes the chip. All four are good. For Windows machines, you have a choice of the AMD Athlon XP, the Intel Pentium 4 and the Intel Celeron, an economy chip. The Pentium 4 and Athlon XP are upper end chips. The fastest Pentium 4 runs at 3.2 Gigahertz - a very fast speed indeed. It's also very expensive. The comparable AMD chip, the 3200+, is slightly less expensive.
You may need these fire-breathers if you're doing lots of video editing. Ditto if you're working with computer-aided design or playing advanced games. Otherwise, look to chips running at 2.4 GHz to 2.6 GHz (or 2400+ to 2600+, in AMD-powered machines). They're cheaper, and they perform nearly as well as the top-end chips.
Intel's Celeron is a budget chip. If you do typical office duties and surf the web, you probably w
One of the biggest myths as it relates to business comes from one of my favorite movies of all time, 'Field of Dreams'. In the movie, Ray Kinsella, is inspired by a mysterious voice telling him to follow his dreams. The voice says, 'If you build it, they will come'. True to Hollywood storytelling, Ray does build 'it' and 'they' do indeed come.Unfortunately, it doesn't work the same in business. Many business owners have the false idea that if they have the very best product or service, they are guaranteed instant success. In essence, 'if [they] build 'it', 'they' will come.An incredible, 'knock your socks off' product or service does not guarantee success.If you're like most small business owners, you've doing everything you know how to do, but you're still not attracting enough new customers. You've tweaked your website. You've increased the size of
You may need these fire-breathers if you're doing lots of video editing. Ditto if you're working with computer-aided design or playing advanced games. Otherwise, look to chips running at 2.4 GHz to 2.6 GHz (or 2400+ to 2600+, in AMD-powered machines). They're cheaper, and they perform nearly as well as the top-end chips.
Intel's Celeron is a budget chip. If you do typical office duties and surf the web, you probably w
If like me you have a big music collection gathered from lots of sources, then you are probably having the same problems with the awful metadata that some tracks have.A lot of my tracks have weird or missing track details, errors and for some tracks I have no ID3 tags at all for the artist and album. I also have a lot of duplicates which have happened from mistakenly importing the same CD twice, or when I've added a friends collection to mine and they have the same track but with a slightly different filename, so it slipped through the net.Given that my collection is continuing to grow, and I am increasingly accessing my library via other PCs, devices and my Xbox via Xbox Media Centre I decided it was time to tidy things up before it became an impossible task.Below are the steps I went through, which I will now do with all new tracks before they get into my
Intel's Celeron is a budget chip. If you do typical office duties and surf the web, you probably wouldn't notice the difference between a top-end Celeron and a Pentium 4 running at the same speed. But you could save some money.
Apple and AMD chips run at lower speeds than those made by Intel. AMD uses the + symbol, as in 3200+, to imply that its chips are faster than comparable Intel microprocessors, despite running more slowly. Indeed, tests often show that to be the case.
Apple claims that its top-end machines are faster than those running Windows. That is a matter of controversy; there are websites devoted to debunking Apple's claims. Apple's chips run at much lower speeds, so they are difficult to compare directly. If you're interested in an Apple computer, test one at a store, then test a Windows machine. Apple computers are more expensive than comparable Windows machines.
Both Apple and AMD have new 64-bit microprocessors. They can crunch twice as much data as 32-bit chips. But there are virtually no programs that take advantage of this power now. That will change in the future, but these expensive new chips don't offer as much value today.
Windows XP and Apple's OS X are also difficult to compare. But there's really no need. Both are stable and fast. You'll probably be satisfied with either.
Windows XP comes in two flavours: Home and Professional. Windows XP Professional has all of Home's goodies, plus some other stuff. Most of it is networking capability. Professio
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