Sunday, March 23, 2008

Latest Freewares for all

CCleaner 2.05----Removes unwanted files from your PC.

http://www.ccleaner.com/download

uTorrent 1.7.7------Bittorrent client for those download freaks.

http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.7/utorrent.exe

AVG Free Edition 7.5.519-----An excellent free antivirus.

http://free.grisoft.com/filedir/inst/avg75free_519a1276.exe

VLC Media Player 0.8.6e----An all-in-one media player.

http://www.videolan.org/mirror.html?mirror=http://mirrors.optralan.com/videolan/&file=vlc/0.8.6e/win32/vlc-0.8.6e-win32.exe

HP beats DELL again!!!

After Hewlett Packard took over as the World No. 1 PC manufacturer in 2006, it has continued to extend its lead over DELL Inc. sizeably. Now HP wins the price war as well which has been DELL's forte and strongest USP over the ages. To compare the prices of a mainstream laptop,I chose the HP Pavilion dv9700t series and the DELL Inspiron 1720 which are correspondingly offering similar configurations.
The configuration for the HP Pavilion dv 9700 was:

Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64 bit;
Intel Core2Duo T9300,2.5 GHz, 6MB Cache, 800MHz FSB;
4 GB DDR2 667MHz RAM;
17 inch screen;
512 MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600 GS;
640 GB HDD;
DVD Writer.
Total Price----$1869


Similarly I configured a DELL Inspiron as follows:
Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit;
Intel Core2Duo T9300,2.5 GHz, 6MB Cache, 800MHz FSB;
3 GB DDR2 667MHz RAM;
17 inch screen;
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT;
640 GB HDD;
DVD Writer.

Total Price: $2229

Thus we can see that for a worser configuration,DELL is charging almost 400 dollars more than HP.So I can safely recommend HP over DELL as regard to better prices. Similar results were obtained in other notebook categories where HP triumphs over DELL.