- PowerBook G4s
Apple’s PowerBook product planners faced a dilemma during the past year: With the G5 processor still too hot for laptops, and no new blockbuster technologies available to add, how could they breathe some vitality into a PowerBook line that’s now more than two years.
- Supercomputers race to predict storms
October 11, 2004
Thousands of miles from the rain and wind of Hurricane Ivan, a model of the storm swirls in the memory and processors of a supercomputer that predicts its likely course and strength.
- Microsoft radio venture gives DJs pause
October 11, 2004
Fans of the Seattle music pop station Kiss 106.1 FM usually have to sit through an array of disc-jockey antics and advertising between listening to favorite artists like Avril Levigne and Ashlee Simpson.
- HP's IPaq Hx4705 Trades Taps for Touches
October 9, 2004
In the notebook PC realm, there have long been two camps on the issue of input devices: Those who prefer the joysticks made famous by IBM's ThinkPads, and those who like touchpads. People tend to have strong opinions on the matter.
- PDA Pundit: The PDA-less Pundit
October 9, 2004
I'm between PDAs, which makes writing a column on them more of a challenge than usual. So this month I'll talk about what can happen when you sell a PDA.
- What's the best way to share a printer on a home network?
October 9, 2004
The easiest and cheapest way is to connect the printer to one PC and allow the other systems on the network to print through that computer. Unfortunately, however, to permit users to print from any other machine on the network, the host computer (the one that has the printer plugged into it) must be powered on.
- Extreme Games
September 12, 2004
There are two types of game-playing geeks in this world: those with pulsing, watt-sucking, over-the-top rigs, and those who are regularly blown into their constituent atoms. An entire industry of boutique system makers has sprung up to cater to the former, and we've rounded up reviews of five top products.
- Audio server pioneers Imerge exhibit
September 10, 2004
Imerge showed off the entire range of SoundServers, network players, PC and handheld control solutions and utilities, a unique loading solution, as well as a good proportion of the third party control systems that interface with the server.
- Rise in server spending
September 8, 2004
Companies are expected to spend $53 billion on servers worldwide by the end of 2004, a rise of 5% on last year, according to market researcher IDC.
- NEC Express5800/TM700
September 8, 2004
Coined a sub entry-level server, NEC’s latest budget-priced offering looks to be severely blurring the lines of distinction between servers and workstations. The small business server is prime territory at the moment, and we’ve already seen many other blue-chip vendors such as HP and Dell looking for a piece of the action with their latest low-cost SMB servers.
- Dell PowerEdge 700
September 8, 2004
Now that Serial ATA (SATA) is fast becoming the storage interface of choice at the SMB level, Dell is embracing this technology with a vengeance. Targeting small businesses and remote branches or offices, the latest PowerEdge 700 brings plenty of SATA storage into play, but adds some impressive expansion options.
- Apple Makes Its Case for the Connected Home in 2004
September 2, 2004
Depending on your perspective, Apple Computer is either an amazing American success story or a colossal failure.
- Evesham Axis 64 34+
September 2, 2004
As a system builder, Evesham has all the basics right. It delivers new technology quickly, offers a good online ordering service, and provides substantial warranties. Most importantly, however, it tends to produce well-specced, powerful PCs at reasonable prices. The Axis 64 34+ is an excellent example of this.
- CCL MS32-XS
September 2, 2004
In many ways, the MS32-XS can be seen as the little brother of the Carrera PC. In a number of areas, CCL has installed a component that’s either one step less powerful or one step lighter in features than the equivalent component in the Zenith. This adds up to a system that, while still feature-heavy and well up to handling most tasks, isn’t quite as desirable as Carrera’s.
- Acer 1502LMi
September 2, 2004
The Acer 1502LMi’s chassis design is familiar enough, but underneath lurks enough new technology to make this one of the best notebooks we’ve seen for many a month.
- Tiny Mediabook MK64-3200+
September 2, 2004
This Mediabook MK64-3200+ has been built around a versatile Athlon 64 processor, running at a speed of 2GHz. While you’ll get good performance from the 754-pin chip, the 32-bit Windows XP environment still doesn’t show it off to its full potential.
- Troubleshooting: 3 Windows annoyances and how to fix them
August 17, 2004
Sometimes your Windows PC misbehaves because it wants to do one thing and you want to do another. Here are three of the most common problems and explanations on how to fix them.
- HP Gets a Handle on Its World
August 16, 2004
Famous for its relationships with Microsoft and Linux distribution vendors like Red Hat and SUSE Linux, HP is revamping its Integrity and HP 9000 high-end servers with new virtualization software based on its HP-UX 11i operating system.
- AMD Marches on Sempron
August 12, 2004
AMD took the wraps off its new entry-level semiconductor family that it hopes will compete more aggressively with Intel's Celeron processors.
- Get the Best View Possible From Your PC's Monitor
August 12, 2004
You spend a large part of your workday staring at it, so why not make it look its best? Not only is a properly calibrated display more attractive, but also it reduces eyestrain and can help produce better-looking prints. Unfortunately, most PC users take their monitor out of the box and make little or no effort to give it the best image it's capable of showing.
- Computers: Turn It Off Or Leave It On?
Are you still confused about whether turning off your computer can hurt the performance of internal parts?
- ATi's Mobile Radeon 9800 Brings Desktop Graphics Ambitions to the Mobile Party
Updated July 28, 2004
Six months after ATi launched its Mobility Radeon 9700, the Canadian developers are pulling the next graphics ace from their sleeve - the MR9800. According to ATi, this extremely short development time is the result of bundling its development staff into two development teams, the desktop and the mobile group.
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