"How to Buy a PC" was supposed to be written, as a continuation to an article that I wrote in the Yedioth Ganey Yaar journal, (a journal local to our neighbourhood). However, due to lack of time, and since there was no much demand for it, I decided to save the time and just give a few references. * A great place to learn many hardware issues, including basic introductory documents, is http://www.nospin.org is a great place for learning hardware issues. * For basic learning of hardware issues, one can use http://www.pctechguide.com/ * For specific hardware reviews, there are two good places: http://www.tomshardware.com and http://anandtech.com . * You may also search Usenet for discussion about specific hardware devices, using the advanced Usenet search engine of Googles (originally Deja: http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search ). * There are many PC related mailing lists, a list of a few that I recommend can be retreived by sending a message to LISTSERV@UNL.EDU with the following line as the BODY of your message: GET HN-OTHER.RESOUR Uzi Paz (for e-mail contact: user is uzi4wg and domain is uzipaz.com)