Category: Laptops & PCs

Reading Time: 2 minutesWall Street Journal columnist Walter Mossberg raves about the iMac G5 in his column published today. He says that the computer is “essentially invisible” now that it’s embedded in the rear of a 17-inch or 20-inch flat panel display. The iMac G5 is significantly faster than a PowerBook G4 that Mossberg also…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, Apple Computer announced the iMac G5 at the Apple Expo in Paris. The computer, ranging from a 1.6 to 1.8-Gigahertz 64-bit PowerPC G5 CPU with hard disk and DVD/CD drive, is integrated with a 17 or 20-inch widescreen LCD display in a single 2-inch thick enclosure. The computer is…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe steadily decreasing cost of laptops and PCs is almost universally considered a good thing. But, if you talk to people who have show-stopping technical problems with their inexpensive computers, you realize that customer support is one of the places where costs have been cut. As the article in today’s USA…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe July 19, 2004 issue of Time Magazine contains a six page photo essay called Welcome Aboard: The Democratic Ticket. One of the photos, shot by Diana Walker, shows Presidential Candidate John Kerry talking to John Edwards on the telephone while working on his Apple PowerBook G4 computer. We rarely get…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI spent most of the late morning and afternoon yesterday building my first AMD Athlon-based server from individually bought parts. Here are the pieces that I assembled: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, Western Digital WD Caviar WD1600JD 160GB Serial ATA (quantity 2), AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.83GHz 333FSB 512KB cache, and Corsair…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft Watch reports that Microsoft should release the first official alpha version of Longhorn at WinHEC2004, a hardware engineering conference this week in Seattle. Longhorn is a future generation of Microsoft Windows that will not be ready for “at least a couple of more years”. Ready for some big numbers? Microsoft…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI love Walter Mossberg’s Personal Technology column. He has a terrific ability to explain technology issues to business-oriented people. Earlier today, he published a brief laptop buyer’s guide. Rather than try to entice readers with features of specific models, he offers advice on factors to consider before a laptop purchase is…