You love your mom all year long, but on one day in particular you show how her how much. Funny thing is you can do all sorts of stuff to celebrate. Lavish her with sweet gifts, do thoughtful things for her….and maybe even show your….geeky side? I know, it sounds crazy, but there are lots of great ways to create fun things for your mom with what you have sitting right in front of you. I’ve got a couple of suggestions for you right here.

I’m not going to bury the lede – so let’s just cut to the point: If you’ve bought an HP Pavilion HPE Phoenix with an SSD (or, quite frankly, ANY HP PC with an SSD), make sure that you have the latest firmware. In the case of the HPE Phoenix, you can get it RIGHT HERE. For more information....and a life lesson about the importance of updating firmware, read on.

We brought a taste of Brazil to the U.S. with the launch of our newest fashion collaboration! Brazilian designer Alexandre Herchcovitch traveled to NYC to share his co-designed special edition HP Pavilion dm1 notebook with the fashionable bloggers of the Style Coalition (@stylecoalition).

There’s been a lot of talk about codename, “Ivy Bridge”. But forget codenames, the 3^rd generation Intel® Core™ Processor is official and here. For those that haven’t been paying attention, it’s all about faster overall CPU performance and better processor graphics on Intel motherboards– that’s the high-level breakdown of what it means. Want more details -- and learn about some of the PCs featuring this technology? Click on through.

It's been almost 12 years in the making, waiting for the next Diablo game, but it's coming next month. If you can't wait that long, you can play the game this whole weekend FOR FREE. That's right, nada. Nothing. Gratis. Starting at 12:01pm PT today, you can get online and play the beta client -- on your HP PC, of course. (And I don't mean just the obvious gaming rigs like the ENVY 17 and Pavilion HPE Phoenix.) For more insights....and the download link......keep reading.

Lately, I’ve been going on about the games that I’ve been using to test our HP PCs. One of those is the racing game DiRT 3. So, with the pending release of its sequel, DiRT Showdown, I was curious: Would the newest, sweetest-looking racing game hold up on an ENVY 17 laptop? We provided a couple tricked-out units – just like the ENVY 17 that I’ve been using – and put it to the test during a recent press event.

Coachella.  The very word is so loaded with everything that this three-day music festival embodies: music, heat, desert, celebrities, fashion, and…. technology? By now I am sure many of you read about the Tupac hologram that “performed” Sunday night.  Let me tell you, it was a religious experience for someone who has loved Tupac as long as this kid.  While that was not HP’s doing, we did have a pretty cool set-up there ourselves that I got to check out behind the scenes. Read on for the backstage tour....