Category: Laptops & PCs

  • iMac G5 Called “A New Gold Standard for PCs” by Walter Mossberg in The Wall Street Journal

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell ponted out that Wall Street Journal columnist Walter Mossberg called the iMac G5 “a new gold standard for PCs” in his The Mossberg Solution column published in today’s print edition. Mossberg wrote: We’ve been testing this new iMac, and our verdict is that it’s the gold standard of desktop…

  • Time to Replace That Windows 98 PC

    Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier today Claude Sanford wrote to me with the following questions: I have a computer running windows 98 that has been giving me a lot of trouble…freezing up, taking forever to crankup, etc. I am on Road runner and I feel like its all the spy programs and firewall stuff that they…

  • miniVox MV100: a Great Portable Speakerphone for VoIP

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteminiVox MV100: Speakerphone for VoIP is available through Amazon.com Yesterday, Andy Abramson of VoIP Watch pointed out a portable speakerphone for use with VoIP services called the miniVox MV100 USB Speakerphone. I had never heard of this before Andy mentioned it. He said: If you think Polycom makes the best desktop…

  • Al Trautwig Using LiveStrong Special Edition Notebook During Tour de France Pre-race Show on OLN

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJosh Hallett of hyku.com asked: Did you notice that {Al Trautwig} had a LiveSTRONG laptop on the desk during the OLN pre-show? I missed that the first time I watched the Pre-race Show, but I was able to go back and look carefully at the lid of Trautwig’s laptop, at the…

  • LiveStrong Notebook PC Now Available at Retailers

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy friend Bruce from AMDprocycling.com pointed out that the LiveStrong Special Edition Notebook PC is now available from authorized e-commerce resellers and will be available shortly at electronics retailers across the country. The e-commerce reseller that we recommend most at this time is Amazon.com because they’ve offered the original version of…

  • AMD-Powered H-P L2000 Special Edition Notebook PC to Benefit LiveStrong Program

    Reading Time: 2 minutesH-P L2000 Special Edition Notebook PC will let PC users LiveStrong. See the high-resolution image for a better idea of what the notebook will look like. [ Photo: Business Wire ]. Advanced Micro Devices and Hewlett-Packard today announced a joint initiative to support the Lance Amrstrong Foundation through a series of special…

  • 12-Inch Powerbook G4 Would Have Made Writing Tour de Georgia Stories Easier

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe working environment for credentialed members of the media when I was at the Dodge Tour de Georgia was different every day. We worked in two different offices, a hotel conference room, the theater in the observation tower at Brasstown Bald, and a conference room at women’s club, depending on where the…

  • PC Magazine Gives Mac mini a “Very Good” Rating

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePC Magazine is out with its review of the Mac mini. They rate it “Very Good” with comments like this: The Apple Mac mini makes an attractive entry point for the Windows-to-Mac switcher, the Mac user who needs an upgrade from a pre-1-GHz Mac, or the user on a budget who…

  • UneasySilence.com Provides Box Unpacking Photos of the Mac mini

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI should have placed an order for a Mac mini with a SuperDrive on the day of Steve Jobs’ keynote at MacWorld, but since I didn’t I’ll have to get my Mac mini fix today with the box unpacking photos that were posted on UNEASYsilence.com yesterday. There are two things that I…