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Thin & Powerful

ASUS ZENBOOK achieves a unique combination of artistic craftsmanship and advanced technology. It arises from the efforts of a dedicated team of designers and engineers, working hard to deliver a portable PC that’s eminently cool, stylish and powerful, gifted with a harmony of great looks and potent features.

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Responsive Performance

No moving parts results in a quiet, cool, highly-rugged solution that offers up to 66% faster system responsiveness than traditional hard disk drives. Boot time, application launches, file loads, sleep recovery, benchmarks; each activity is faster.

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High Performance. Affordable Price.

Intel Pentium G860 Sandy Bridge 3.0GHz Dual-Core
MSI H61M-P21 Motherboard
4GB PC1333 DDR3 RAM
320 GB SATA Hard Drive
Windows 7 Home Premium 64

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Piece of Mind

Synology DiskStation DS212 offers an affordable and full-featured network attached storage solution, specifically designed for small business workgroup users who need to share and protect data cost-effectively, while increasing productivity with comprehensive business-oriented applications. Running on DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system, it delivers ease of use and variety of features.

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Welcome to High Performance Computers

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High Performance Computers is Chicago land's choice in computing solutions since 1983. We offer a wide variety of goods and services, from customized new systems to networking. Our customers are our top priority, so please let us know about anything you would like to see on this site. If you can't find a price on a part you are interested in, would like more information about something, or just want to find a good web site regarding your favorite hobby, send us an email, call us or stop in and we'll be more than happy to help you out.

 

Update on HD Shortages

Evanston Computer Repair

Currently, due to the flooding in South East Asia, there is a significant shortage of disk based hard drives.  This shortage is expected to affect the next two, possibly up to three, business quarters.  Currently prices for hard drives have doubled, and every distributor and retailer has limited supply to one (1) unit per household.  Most of the sales restrictions limit purchase to once a month.  This situation may prove to be the catalyst which shifts the industry away from traditional hard disk drives and onto the newer and much faster SSD (solid state drive) drives.  Prices for SSD’s will most likely become very competitive in relation to hard drives throughout the new year.

One thing to keep in mind is that the prices for hard disk drives had possibly dropped to an artificial low before the flooding, which was created by a surplus of supply in the marketplace.  Prior to the last week of Oct 2011 the cost for a 500GB SATA drive was on average $50.  Current prices have doubled/tripled for these drives.  Current pricing for SSD drives is still higher for comparable data storage capacity, but with the rising cost of hard disk drives, this cost now becomes a feasible alternative when considering the performance of SSD drives compared to traditional hard drives.

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