Archive for July, 2009

July 25th, 2009

UK’s best online PC retailer

Let the battle commence…

Which is the cheapest online retailer in the UK? A good question and one that isn’t answered all that quickly, due to the fact that there’s a hell of a lot of online retailers in the UK. But rather than attempting to have a look at all of them, I’ve decided to pick up on a few. Therefore, what exactly would be the criteria for which ones I choose to look at? Well, I simply grabbed my copy of Micromart, and chose to look at each online retailer that had a page advertisement in it. Also, due to popularity, I have also chosen to look at Ebuyer, Scan, and Misco. Basically, I’m going to see which online retailer would be the cheapest one (including P&P) to provide me with an AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Retail CPU, 4GB of Corsair DDR3 RAM, an ASUS M4A79T Deluxe 790FX Socket AM3 motherboard, and a Sapphire HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 Graphics card. So, let’s get started shall we?

1. CClonline.com The first thing that strikes me is the copious amount of things that immediately pop out on the main page of the website, and the quite large images that this online retailer uses. Luckily, it’s quite easy to navigate, so what I wanted took less than 5 minutes to find.

Prices:

  • CPU – £179.45
  • Motherboard - £143.69
  • DDR3 RAM – £52.33
  • Graphics Card – £127.22

Total:

  • Without Shipping – £502.69

Shipping came to £5.65, and as I couldn’t find any sort of “free delivery if send after x amount of days”, the total would come to £508.34, but if I chose the “please can I pick this up” option, I’d save that £5.65 p&p charge.

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July 17th, 2009

Google Chrome OS

Google advances another challenge…

The main news this week is that Corporation Giant, Google, has been doing something that we all knew they had been doing for a very long time – Designing their own Operating System. It didn’t really come as that much of a surprise to most people. Google have already dominated the search engine market for quite some time, and the money they get from having adverts on their search engine has helped given them the resources to make them into a very impressive global company, who has some very, very impressed employee’s.

After Google released their Internet Browser – Google Chrome (which I feel is going to be having “IB” (Internet Browser) added to it so it doesn’t get confused with the Google Chrome OS) – and received many positive reviews for the first (and second) release of GC-IB, and the fact that their Android Mobile OS has been making steady inroads to the mobile devices market since 2007, most predicted it was only a matter of time before Google announced an OS for a computing platform. And guess what – they did.

Google Chrome OS is stated to be released (which I guess means in beta form) mid-2010, mainly for Netbooks to begin with, but rest assured, Laptop and PC versions won’t be far behind. The main goal of Google is to create a “simple, light, fast and secure” Operating system that is based heavily around users of the Internet, which, in case people hadn’t noticed by now, is what the vast preponderance of people do with their Computers in this day and age.

One thinks that even though it was more or less expected, Microsoft and its CEO’s probably pooped their pants when Google finally announced their Operating System. If (I actually think when) Google Chrome OS turns out to be just what people want, due to the fact that the Operating System will be free, although free alternatives to Microsoft’s Windows platform have been around for a very long time now, Microsoft’s dominance in the Operating System market will take a heavy, and very, very, severe hit.

Microsoft best be hoping that the new Windows 7 actually starts to have an impact before Google finally release their Google Chrome OS.

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