Using a tablet for serious productivity tasks like writing a report, creating a slide set, or working on a dense spreadsheet can’t be done comfortably or efficiently on a less than a 13-inch screen and ...
As some of you know, I am fond of saying the more you can see, the more you can do. It’s not only Peddie’s 2nd law, it’s true. Likewise, I’ve ranted more than once about ...
If you are a regular sufferer of this page, then you’ve heard me rant on (and on) about the misconception that tablets and phones are killing off PCs. My position has been, and is, that ...
When your personal companion has almost every sensor imaginable and always-connected capability, what it can do is only limited by your imagination and the imaginations of the applications developers. A scenario recently suggested by ARM ...
Developing a good AAA first or third-person game is expensive, takes a long time, and is tricky as hell to get right. You’ve got to have great (not just good) art; a really good, compelling ...
I have a 13-inch common screwdriver, and an 11-inch, an 8-inch, a 6-inch, and a 4-inch Phillips. I can’t use the 13-inch for jobs the 4-inch can do, nor can the 6-inch handle jobs designed ...
{image_1} You think it’s hot in the central U.S. and along the East Coast—that’s nothing compared to the surface of the Sun. A powerful sunstorm—associated with the second biggest solar flare of the current 11-year ...
Time was, Intel made chips, Microsoft made operating systems and other software products, and HP and Dell made computers and other associated products. Time was … Those times and the jolly relationships they spawned are ...
The month started with Computex in Taipei, which overlapped with E3 in LA, PTC World in Orlando, and the SID display conference in Boston. The following week it was the AMD Fusion Developer’s conference (AFDS) ...
For a while now I have referred to the mobile phone as the ultimate PC—not a personal computer, a personal companion. If you look around in any public place, what is the thing you most ...
Our esteemed co-founder, Kathleen Maher, has invented another (thought you already knew about it but didn’t) concept—Digital Reality. Now we add that to virtual reality, augmented reality, and reality TV. Do we need more forms ...
There’s a lot of assumptions running around in this PC industry, based on hearsay and tidbits of data. We just finished running some tests on Nvidia’s new dual-GPU AIB, the GTX 690 (see p. 11). ...
