The cost of flying has been rising sharply lately due to the increasing prices of oil coupled with still strong demand for flights. For students that enjoy traveling and exploring the world the cost of getting there has become the largest chunk of the cost. You can quite easily slum it a bit to [...]

When I used to live in the Midwest I couldn’t imagine a place in the U.S. that people would actually ride trains to get around. Then I spent some time working in New York and came to understand how that without a car Amtrak is a real boon to getting between cities on the [...]

The Dell Vostro 1000 is the budget offering in the Dell Small Business lineup of laptops. It has a 15.4′ screen and comes with an AMD Turion processor. The Dell Vostro 1000 is priced at under $500 with a basic configuration, so the price really can’t be complained about. But does the low price equate [...]