Category: Laptops & PCs
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Why I’m Recommending a MacBook Pro as My Wife’s Next Computer
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy wife Kathleen has used a Pentium II desktop computer with a gigantic 21-inch CRT monitor as her home computer for at least five years. The hard disk drive on that computer is dying, and so we are looking at buying her a brand new computer for the first time since she…
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Successful Executives Building “Treadputers” to Work While They Exercise
Reading Time: 2 minutesBrad Feld’s Treadputer: Venture capitalist Brad Feld added a 3.2-GHz IBM ThinkCentre to his Vision Fitness T9450HRT Treadmill. This lets him get his runs in while he’s on conference calls. [ Photo: Brad Feld ]. Brad Feld is a managing director at Mobius Venture Capital based in Boulder, Colorado. He challenges himself by running…
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Apple Mail Recommended as a Replacement for Eudora 6 on Intel-based Macs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell is the proud owner of a new MacBook Pro. He reports that Apple Mail, part of Mac OS X Tiger is a significant improvement over Eudora 6, the latest version available for the Mac. Martin writes: I’ve been using Apple Mail 2.0.8 for about 10 days now, and I’ve…
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Boot Camp Should Be the First Step Toward Windows Virtualization on Intel-Based Macs
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was thrilled to see that Apple introduced Boot Camp yesterday. Boot Camp is a free-standing add-on to the next release of Mac OS X that gives Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers dual boot capability. All you need to do to run Microsoft Windows on the same machine is to install your own…
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Viewsonic VX2025 Wins 20-inch Widescreen Monitor Shootout at Bit-Tech
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe ViewSonic VX2025 won a 20-inch Widescreen Monitor Group Test published yesterday at Bit-Tech.net. The VX2025 was judged the best value for the money against the following competitors: BenQ FP202W NEC MultiSync 20WGX, apparently not available in the U.S. but the closest model is the NEC MultiSync 20WMGX2-BK Acer AL2032WA On…
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Windows Vista to Be Delayed Until January 2007
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft will delay the general release of Windows Vista until January 2007. According to the article, “Mr. Allchin {co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services Division} said that the major reason for this delay — which amounts to several weeks beyond the original expected launch date…
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Buy the MacBook Pro for the User Experience
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve noticed recently that a lot of people commenting on the Apple MacBook Pro who aren’t Macintosh users have focused on the comparing the CPU speeds of the new models with the final Apple PowerBook models and found the MacBook Pro models somehow lacking. It’s hard to believe that the people making…
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What Color “Screen of Death” Does Your Favorite Gadget Produce?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhile researching my article on the White Screen of Death problem my Treo is having, I ran across a recent piece by Stewart Alsop where he asks “Do the vendors choose the color of the death screen intentionally?” He says that the screens of death for his favorite gadgets are: Blue…
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12-inch iBook G4 Rated Most Reliable Mac Laptop by Macintouch
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMacintouch produced a very detailed Macintosh laptop reliability study with responses from its readers. Forty-one different models of Mac laptops are covered: everything from 233-Megahertz PowerBook G3s to 1.67-Gigahertz 17-inch PowerBook G4s. There are a lot of interesting results here, well worth reading for Mac laptop users and non-Mac users alike.…