For the first Tips N Tweaks article, lets talk about the single most important, easiest and one of the cheapest means of improving the performance of any computer – RAM.  RAM or Random Access Memory is the one part of the computer that is fairly easy to upgrade or add once you know what type your computer supports.  Having enough RAM is absolutely crucial in that all of the programs, hardware and the operating system all take up different sized chunks of memory as soon as you turn the computer on.  (more…)

Wicked in the sense of wicked-good for computer DJs that is!  The stage of computer technology is set to change drastically before our eyes in just the next ten years.  What does that mean for those of us already using a Computerized Performance System or a laptop now?  For lack of a better term, I’ll call it a major shift in paradigm from fragile components and trying to squeeze more speed out of CPUs to totally integrated solid-state memory and storage to absurd numbers of cores on a single chip as well as integrated CPU/GPU functionality.  (more…)