About 3 weeks ago I took all Google Adsense off this blog.  I decided I had to in order to make sure I wasn’t getting smart priced. If you want to read more about smart pricing you can at Court’s Internet Marketing School. It is not as though I was making very much anyway and most of you are probably in the same boat with your blogs.

I wanted to make sure that I was getting what I should be getting per click on the few Bans sites and niche blogs I have with Adsense. All the Adsense blogging ads on DayJobNuker were ”make money online ads” and those  hardly pay more than a nickle. They had to go, especially if there was a chance they were hurting me somewhere else.

I have now applied to and have just put up some similar looking Yahoo ads. It is my understanding that you cannot get smart priced with these ads so there is no risk of putting them up. If they do poorly on this site (which they will because it is a “make money” site), it won’t hurt me if I put them on other sites as well. I won’t hurt my whole network of ads in other words.

The Yahoo Publishers ads are new and I think they are still in the process of signing up a lot more advertisers. Right now there are only a couple ads showing on my sidebar when there will eventually be 4 or 5.  Looks like it is working well now (it just takes more than 24 hours to start working and pulling the correct ads.  The number of ads definitely fluctuates. It looks kind of strange right now but I hope it will get better over time. This is the link to Yahoo Publishers ads if you want to check it out. It took almost 2 weeks for them to accept me so you will have to be patient.

I’ve been spending the last two days transfering all my files and setting up my new laptop PC that I just bought. I got the HP Pavilion dv9740us Notebook PC and in the end the decision to buy a PC over a MacBook Pro was easy.

I love new and cool technology and I really wanted to buy a Mac but the price was just not competitive on any level. I have heard and read so much about how great the Mac’s are and their new operating system Leopard seems to be very well liked. I love the Mac vs. PC commercials and the Mac’s just seem to be cooler. I so badly wanted to try something new and cool!

Ahhh. A brand new laptop fresh in the box (feet sold seperately)

I needed to get a 17 inch screen as I do a lot of work with Excel and Access for my job and having the wider screen will be great. So, I was looking to buy the MacBook Pro 17″ or a PC with a 17″ screen. The price difference between the two was HUGE!

MacBook Pro 17″ comes with:
2 GB of Ram
One 160 GB hard drive
$2799.00 price tag

The HP Pavilion dv9740us Notebook PC comes with:
3 GB of Ram
Two 160 GB hard drives
$1199.00 price tag (after $50.00 mail in rebate)

 My new laptop PC!

The MacBooks never seem to go on sale and so how could I possibly justify paying more than double for something that got less Ram and storage? I couldn’t and that is why I got the PC. It also comes with 4 USP ports, is BlueRay DVD compatible, and can be hooked up to your cable TV and used as a TV (it even has a remote for that). 

I don’t like the fact that it no longer comes with the operating system backup discs and it says you need to burn them yourself. I guess this is the new trend. It also has a pretty slim instruction manual as they want you to go online now for everything it seems. I love the fact that it has 2 hard drives so I can put Microsoft XP on one of the hard drives if I end up disliking Vista. Without the two hard drives you would have to partition your one hard drive in order to install the second operating system. That is something I hope I never have to attempt. 

So, that is what I have been and will be doing for a while. Getting a new laptop is fun but getting it all set up and everything transferred is quite boring. It’s amazing how old and clunky my 4+ year old Dell seems after getting the new laptop. Now I have to make some money with it!

Old Dell Inspiron on the left, new HP on the right

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