You may have noticed a new link on the right hand side of the page. Senior account manager, Dennis Brounstein, has decided to switch his popular monthly e-mail newsletter over to a blog format so that everyone can enjoy it. Make sure to take a minute to check it out: dennisfromnwcomputer.blogspot.com
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Discarded circuit boards in the town of Guiyu, China, where scientists found environmental contamination from crude recycling practices.Here are a few more demo videos from Apple. These are great videos to watch if you are in the market for an Apple computer, thinking about the big switch from PC's or just curious about Apples new line of laptops.
There have been some interesting moves on the part of Microsoft in the last week or two regarding Windows XP. According to Microsoft, large computer makers will no longer be selling machines with XP after June 30, 2008. Sales of XP will be discontinued after January 31, 2009. I get lots of calls asking if I can still get Windows XP-Professional and as of this point the answer is definitely yes. I am still getting requests for about 80% of my sales with XP. There is still a great deal of fear over Vista. Some people report having conflicts with existing hardware or software but most have not really even tried Vista. Before going any further, Microsoft has said that it will support XP at least through 2014.
Microsoft stated this past week that it will continue to sell Windows XP-Home for lower end systems primarily for use in emerging markets. Machines will need less hardware requirements to run adequately helping to reduce the cost of these computers. This is not going to be a factor for most schools and businesses which require XP-Professional to run on their domains.
Bill Gates also announced last week that Vista's replacement should be available in a year or so. This is referring to 2010 not 2009 like some media has been reporting. Vista's replacement is being called Windows 7. One of the advantages of this version is a less hardware intensive approach. A minimalistic variation of the Windows kernal known as MinWin, is being developed for use in Windows 7. The MinWin development efforts are aimed towards componentizing the Windows kernel and reducing the dependencies with a view to carving out the minimal set of components required to build a self-contained kernel as well as reducing the disk footprint and memory usage according to Mark Russinovich.
Microsoft is suffering from bad publicity over Vista and is still having trouble with it gaining acceptance. 100 million copies of Vista have been sold. Most have been bundled with new machines mostly for the retail market. Most businesses have been happy with Windows XP and have not had the need to upgrade yet. This will change over the next year when Vista is the only product readily available.
Order either Windows XP or Vista machines today. Both operating systems are in stock and ready to ship. Use the configurators on the right side of this page for desktops or notebooks to make your choices. If you prefer to go with Ubuntu or some other OS, please leave a comment on the form.
The first service pack for Windows Vista has just been released. It doesn't look like there are any huge changes to the real meat of the operating system. The update seems to mainly address some stability issues and a few small performance issues. To read a full review of the upgrade check out the great write up at PCPRO. If you are interested in all the little details here a link to Microsoft's list of notable changes.
Vista users that can't wait to upgrade should open their start menu, click the all programs button then click on windows updates to get to the windows update center. If you don't see the service pack 1 update do all other available updates and try again. If you still don't see it you may have to wait just a little longer. Apparently there are some drivers that are having issues with service pack 1 and Microsoft is holding out on providing the update to computers with those drivers until the problems have been fixed with driver updates. The good news is that Microsoft says they will send the driver updates out through windows updates over the next couple months which will unlock the update for many users. Users desperate to upgrade can find a manual installation on Microsoft's website but i wouldn't recommend it.
We have a new section on http://www.nwcomputer.us/ for online ordering! Now you can design a custom Blue Mountain computer and order it from the comfort of your home. We are all really excited about it. Take a minute to play around with the customizer and don't forget to check out the new line of Blue Mountain Computers: online store.
Also keep an eye out for more updates on the ordering section of out web page we have some exciting things in the works.
