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Taking a new route..

RavenPC is taking a new route in business, I am going back to the original concept of building and selling custom computers.

There is a few markets out there that seem to be a hit and miss, but the question is how do you sell an hackintosh pc? you can’t not with out Apple breathing down your neck. But… lets say this, osx is built on top of Darwin BSD, so in that situation, why don’t I just market BSD desktops that can be “hackintosh” if the enthusiast is willing to change over.

Other PC’s include Steam Machines, workstations and RavenPC fused laptops, there is alot to cover and bundles we can create per order. Bundle orders will include random loot and maybe a 3 month subscription to lootcrate as I still working out some stuff from there.

There is more coming soon to RavenPC.

Computer Myths… of slow computers, lol.

Next time you have a suspicion of a crappy computer guy who just robbed you of your money.

I found that this is very helpful
http://lifehacker.com/5958001/the-5-biggest-myths-about-slow-pcs-and-how-you-can-actually-fix-them

It explains the 5 biggest myths about slow Computers,  I couldn’t agree more.  As I work I couldn’t help but to read this and notice the issues that is pertained around this.

These myths follow what I have seen in the past 10 years, as an overview.

  1.  People install big bloated expensive with a service Antivirus programs.
    This is something I tend to do, before I would recomend at the time the lightweight most effective antivirus program Norton, McAfee or anything big corp company type is bloat / crap ware to begin with. When I work on PC’s about slowness This is one of the things I recommend. 
  2.  More ram then you actually need
    Unless you are a gamer, sudo movie maker, or doing alot of memory allocated apps. typical user only needs 3GB on a 32bit system and on a 64bit 4gb. 
  3.  Hardware wares out like a rubber band ?!?
    This still has to be a silly one because hardware doesn’t *ware* out per-se. It’s like a light switch it’s on or off or burnt out like a bulb. 
  4.  Registry cleaners,  system maintenance programs, really?
    Seriously you don’t need to keep a maintenance on your system like that if you have read the article written above I would follow it because it’s true and  before even this even occurred I would look more into what do you have installed?  and why? Anything vista and above it rarely needs any maintenance period. 
  5. Lets Re-install Windows again it’s been 3 months.
    I have had windows 7 the same one I purchased when it first came out in 2009 same one isntalled, still running fast and strong and I game, program, and even run various Virtual Box images for server side base testing purposes. This used to be a windows 98 thing because computer guys back in win98 days couldn’t figure out how to fix the system right and it’s an easy way to make a quick buck by “hey, your os is broken $200 to fix and reimage your machine.”  But then again Crapware was also being a major factor in these old days.  It’s been around since windows 98 days not much of windows 95 but 98 started the era of crapware, adware, and malware. Popups, advertising programs, and other misc stuff started then and still exist now and it is started by installing a tool bar or a screen saver and my favorite “button click’ritious” clicking next and not unchecking the tool bar to be installed. Only time an OS needs to be reinstalled if the OS files are corrupted due to a “bad” install or uninstall of a critical program that wrote to the system folders, Virus, Spyware, and Malware issues.  Or bad hardware to a point of no return. 
Has some good articles on how to do the maintenance on your windows  7 machine.