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Review: 2018 High Performance HP 17.3″ Laptop

Posted on July 9, 2018

Long gone are the days when we had to choose between the convenience of a laptop and the speed of a desktop computer.

Many modern laptops are plenty fast enough to run even the most demanding software without bogging down under load. And some models even out-perform most desktop PCs.

I recently had the opportunity to check out one such machine…

The 2018 High Performance HP 17.3″ Laptop (#ad) comes packed with plenty of power for running your favorite applications, streaming HD video and more, all at a price that would have been unheard of just a year or two ago.

Here’s a quick look at the specs: [Read more…]

Q&A: How can a 30GB program run on a PC that only has 8GB of RAM?

Posted on July 5, 2018

Question from Daniel G.: Hi Rick. I just noticed something that has me puzzled and I hope you can help me understand how it works.

Last night I downloaded a game and installed it on my computer, and it runs just fine.

The thing that’s puzzling me is the game was a 30GB download but it runs on my computer even though it only has 8GB of RAM.

What trick are they using to shoehorn 30GB of code into 8GB of RAM? Is it compressed somehow?

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]

ATTN Xfinity Mobile Customers: Your service is about to get a lot worse.

Posted on July 3, 2018

Have you seen the new ads from Comcast promoting their Xfinity Mobile service?

If you have, you probably think it sounds like a pretty good deal.

Well, that “deal” is about to get a lot worse. [Read more…]

Review: Microsoft Edge for Android

Posted on July 2, 2018

With more people now use mobile devices to access the Internet than laptops or desktop computers, I’m always on the lookout for best mobile web browsers.

Opera Mini has been my favorite mobile browser for a good while now, but I’m beginning to re-think that choice now that I’ve used Microsoft Edge for Android for a while.

Microsoft included their new Edge browser as a replacement for the much-maligned Internet Explorer in Windows 10, and I really like it.

Edge is fast, clean and easy to use. I tend to use multiple browsers simultaneously on my work PC because every browser just seems to work better with specific websites that I use on a daily basis. [Read more…]