OS Trends Over Time: XP vs. Vista, 32-bit vs. 64-bit Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 by Jon Bach

This weekend, Puget Systems updated many of our preconfigured systems to default to Windows Vista 64-bit. This is in direct response to a dramatic increase in popularity of 64-bit over the last few months. As part of my research in making this call, I took a look at ...

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How accurate is ResellerRatings.com? Monday, March 16th, 2009 by Jon Bach

The website ResellerRatings.com has been around for a very long time, and is the de facto standard for checking out just about any online retailer in the industry. It provides a place for unbiased reviews of companies by people who have purchased in the past. However, in the ...

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Are Extreme PCs Going Away? Thursday, March 12th, 2009 by Jon Bach

On Monday, Jason Perlow at Tech Broiler wrote about a $16,000 PC we had built, which has recently been making its way around blog headlines. He commented that “Extreme PCs” are no longer relevant, and asked his readers whether these types of PCs, along with build-your-own homebrew PCs were ...

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How SEO Built Our Business Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 by Jon Bach

This isn't a normal thing for me to blog about, but I've had the desire recently to share more about Puget Systems behind the scenes: what makes us tick, what we value, and how we do things. Search engine optimization, or SEO, is something that we have been ...

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Building a $16,000+ PC Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 by Perry Azevedo

We've been receiving a lot of media, blog and Twitter attention regarding the "$16,000+ PC" we built late last year. While most of the reviews have been favorable, the comment fields have been their usual mix of reactions and name-calling. LOL! The extra attention has definitely been fun, although I ...

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