I have had several inquiries this season about what computer to buy. I wrote up a little guide for a friend of mine, and thought I would post it here as it might help if you too are in the market for a computer.   The two best laptops out there are Toshiba, and Asus, at least at a price under $1k. Asus was for years the premier motherboard maker, and pretty much still is . I built a bunch of computers using Asus parts. Now, their laptops of late,, may not be as good as they once were, but then all manufactures now use a lot of generic parts for their laptops.   I was surprised that one can now buy a laptop for about the same or even less than a desktop. Just seems to me that a desktop for around the house, ties you down to one location setting behind a desk.   But having said all that, I have a HP Probook I special ordered for my work laptop. It has been a good machine, but I tweak it all the time. I was never partial to HP as seems like when I worked at the computer stor...

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Tuesday, November 26, 2013 Available Now:  Amazon  |  iBooks  |  B&N | Indie |  BAM! Buy It!   The Audiobook, Read By Rush Listen to It! Sneak Peek Audio Excerpt YouTube: Simon & Schuster Interview with Rush   "On our pre-Thanksgiving show, there's a tradition that I always read from my book, the Real Story of Thanksgiving, which I will probably do, even though the Real Story of Thanksgiving is in my new book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.  But there's another difference that we're gonna do on actua...