Computers Archive
One nice thing about PC gaming is that you get to choose your controls and accessories. This simply isn’t the case for console players. For instance, if you own an Xbox One, you have a single input: the Xbox controller. Sure, you can modify the controller with aftermarket thumb sticks. If you want to get really fancy, you can use a racing wheel or other …
If you go back just a few years, there was no reason to use a smartphone with an external monitor. To begin with, the displays were very low quality. Blowing up a crummy, low-quality picture is just going to get you a bigger, low-quality picture. But modern smartphones are nearly on par with laptops when it comes to display quality. You can even watch and …
Over the past few decades, computers have simultaneously gotten smaller and more powerful. For the most part, this trend has done a lot of good. Back in the early 90s, laptops were big, fat, and heavy, and they weren’t terribly powerful. They could easily give you a cramp if you used them for long periods, and they tended to get warm. As in, “burn your …
As technology advances, electronics keep getting smaller and smaller. For example, the first hard drive was shipped in 1956, and held only 5 megabytes of data. And when we say “shipped”, we’re not just using a generic term. It was the size of two refrigerators, and had to be moved with a forklift. Today, we have three-terabyte hard drives and tiny flash drives that can …
Some computer upgrades are easier than others. Upgrading your graphics card, for example, is quick and painless. Turn off your computer, unplug it, remove the old graphics card, pop in the new one, and restart. Wait a minute for the drivers to install, and you’re ready to rock. Upgrading your processor, on the other hand, can be a real nightmare. You have to carefully remove …
