Is it a Good Time to Buy?

Is it a good time to buy a computer? Prices are constantly changing and laptops are getting cheaper all the time.

My answer is: YES

Why? Because hardware manufacturers are actually lowering the prices on computers to help stimulate the economy (and so they PCs don't sit in warehouse shelves forever). For this reason, it's actually a really good time to buy a computer for a great price. On top of that, manufacturers are competing against super-low-priced netbooks that are running only $200-300!

Let's take Lenovo as one example. They already have their "value line" of laptops and traditionally the Thinkpad line has been considered the elite business-class notebooks. Even Lenovo is creating a Thinkpad X200 series that has a lower-cost Celeron processor in it.

Hope you find a great deal if you're looking for a PC. If you're looking for an Apple/ Mac, then leverage the fact that they're trying to clear out their old models of MacBooks (including the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro).

Star Trek and Medical Computers

You may not be surprised to know that I'm a Star Trek fan. I'm not a super-serious fan, but I'm also a bit more than your average fan. Anyways, I love the medical gadgets that appear in science fiction films. I often wonder if we'll see tablet PCs that are thin and light like the ones that appear on Star Trek. Maybe the color touch-screen Amazon Kindle will be the closest thing to the type of small tablet that's seen in science fiction movies.

The medical tricorder is seen in Star Trek as a handheld computer that scans people and immediate provides a diagnosis. We now have handheld ultrasound probes. You can even plug EKG leads to a handheld PDA (running the Palm OS or Windows Mobile). Will we see something like the tricorder in our lifetime?