Ask people working in an office or living in a multi-story house, and they might tell that strong Wi-Fi coverage is only a dream for them. Regardless of the Wi-Fi devices, they connect to their router, signal strength always remains weak. As for the speed, the absence of signals means they cannot even think about … Read more
How Will Microsoft and HP Re-Invent the Business Desktop? With Xeel It’s the punch line of many a sexist joke, but Microsoft’s Web site links to a New Scientist article in which researchers from the software giant and Carnegie Mellon University told a computer-usability conference that, at least on screen, men really do navigate or read maps … Read more
As notebook computers go, the Lenovo ThinkPad T410 is bread and butter. It’s the company’s mainstream 14.1-inch business laptop, sibling to the 15.6-inch model T510, smack in the middle of Lenovo’s product line. But you know how, when you go to a really nice restaurant, even the bread and butter are exceptional? This ThinkPad may … Read more
IBM today released its Power7 processor and unveiled a wide range of new servers running the chip, giving the company a response to both Intel’s new “Tukwila” Itanium 9300 processor and Oracle’s UltraSparc chips, which Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has repeatedly compared against IBM systems. During an event late last month celebrating the completion of … Read more
Optical Illusion No, it doesn’t come with cardboard glasses. When Sharp Systems of America calls the Actius RD3D the world’s first autostereo notebook, it’s referring not to its sound system but to stereoscopic vision — push the big, backlit 3D button above the keyboard, and the laptop’s 15.0-inch LCD screen can show images in three dimensions with … Read more
Buy One Core, Get One Free Intel may be taking it on the chin in the desktop CPU contest, but its Centrino brand rules the laptop category, where AMD is well behind in both market share and brand awareness. This has been true since the early days of the Pentium M versus Turion 64, but … Read more
A Subcompact Convertible As Microsoft’s Tablet PC portable push enters its fourth year, legal-pad-style “slate” designs have mostly given way to “convertible” notebook PCs whose screens lift to reveal, then swivel and fold down to conceal, the keyboard … and neither has made much of a dent in the overall laptop market. But even before … Read more
Not for Gamers, But Nifty for Office Work Plugging a monitor into a USB port? Ha, ha! That’s right up there with mistaking your CD-ROM drive for a cupholder, or getting a “Press Any Key” message and phoning tech support to say you can’t find the Any key. Mistaking a USB for a VGA port! … Read more