Welcome to the online arm of Carnegie Digital Computers on the good ol’ WWW.  I hope all is well.  Without any further ado, let’s get straight to this week’s e-mail questions:

What’s the deal with water cooling?  Even Dell offers it now, though only for their ueber-gaming rigs.  The technology has been around for several years now.  When will it finally transition into the mainstream already?

~ Travis “Grognard” Toon

The reason water cooling hasn’t become mainstream is the same reason it will never mainstream at all — much simpler less exotic technology exists that is perfectly adequate for the job.  Even overclockers of the kind who pimp their gaming rigs up the wazoo have generally done quite nicely without such plumbing, so there’s no hope in hell of anyone else actually needing such an arrangement.  Sorry.

I would like to know your personal opinion on the never-ending debate over Macs or PCs.  Since you pride yourself on complete honesty despite being an electronics retailer, I am curious what you would have to say, or whether you can even bring yourself to address this matter at all!

~ bc293@optiline.net

Okay, “bc293″ (what are you, a droid?), let’s get to the point.  You need a girlfriend.  Trust me, she won’t care.  And neither will you once you find her.  Good luck!

What should I buy, the MacBook Air or the Samsung 9?

~ Marty Markowitz

I’m going to assume you mean the Samsung Series 9, the Korean answer to Cupertino’s flagship ultra-portable.  And you know what else I think?  I think you should  get whatever you can afford.  These two are fairly comparable specs-wise, so the only real issue is price.  Believe it or not, the MacBook Air is substantially cheaper.  That’s right!  An Apple product that finally costs less than its rivals.  But if you’re stuck on Wintel configurations, Samsung’s Series 9 is the best in ultra-portable computing available this product cycle!