HP APPEARS to be having major problems with its entire line of Core i7 PCs.

According to HP's support forums, the range is fast developing a reputation for locking up, freezing and throwing BSOD's.

The forum has more than 100 pages of customers that have shipped back their machines and received replacement units several times only to see the exact same problem.

The problem appears to affect the entire range of HP's elite Pavilion Series using Core i7 CPUs.

WE’RE QUITE overwhelmed with BFG’s GeForce GTX 295 H20C LE. The liquid-cooled card comes with a 99MHz / 216MHz / 214MHz core, shader and memory overclocks, respectively, and delivers pretty much the ultimate graphics performance of this generation of cards. Noisy, pricey and powerful – it’s an American muscle card. Anandtech takes a look at Asus’ new Eee PC 1005HA. It’s an improvement over previous models, but the anemic Atom processor still slows things down a bit. Think Computers takes on another netbook, the Lenovo Ideapad S10-2.

ACCORDING TO FIGURES published by web insecurity firm ScanSafe, more employers block social notworking websites than almost any other type of Internet content. ScanSafe said the crimes they are a-changing and these days time idled away posting profile snaps and pithy status updates is considered worse than time spent on websites related to banking, sports, shopping and weapons.