PC sales headed for 400 million in 2013

Apple’s Post-PC Era claim is more marketing hubris than fact with PC shipments 6 times higher than iPad

Unit sales 2012 - (Chart - Aquilium Group)

By Stephen Pate – At the new iPad announcement, Apple CEO Tim Cook called this the “Post-PC era.”

In terms of real market size, Apple’s claim of the demise of the PC doesn’t hold up. Continue reading

New Intel 520 Series SSDs outperform at marginal cost premium

New Cherryville series drives achieve high performance benchmark at slightly higher price than Intel’s SATA II 320 Series

By Stephen Pate – SSD drives have been getting faster and less expensive. Intel leads the performance race with its new SATA III 520 Series SSD drives.

SSD drives can boot Windows 7 and now Windows 8 in less than 20 seconds. Continue reading

Download Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview

The download is now available on official Microsoft site

By Stephen Pate – The official download site is Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview

We recommend the download only from Microsoft approved sites. Please note this is not a production version if Windows 8 and may cause your computer to function erratically.