Mar 21, 2016 | computers, hardware, laptops, shopping
If you get a solid state hard drive (SSD) instead of a conventional spinning hard drive in your next computer – laptop or desktop PC – it will make more of a difference than any other choice you make for the computer. An SSD changes the performance of a computer more...
Jan 18, 2016 | computers, Internet, LastPass, mobile, phone, security, Windows tips, Windows10, Windows7, Windows8
These are the rules for being safe using a Windows computer in 2016. We are required to be paranoid and vigilant. We run our businesses and manage our personal lives online, and the bad guys are endlessly inventive in their effort to find ways through our defenses....
Jan 6, 2016 | computers, HP, laptops, Lenovo, shopping
The huge electronics trade show CES is in progress in Las Vegas, with manufacturers showing off a dizzying array of new laptops and tablets for 2016, along with talking refrigerators and autonomous drones and a lot of useless gadgets that will never actually make it...
Oct 6, 2015 | Android, Apple, computers, Google, hardware, HoloLens, iPad, Microsoft, shopping, Surface, tablet, Windows10
Executives at Dell and HP and Lenovo put their head in their hands and moaned as they watched Microsoft’s presentation of new hardware on Tuesday. It was Microsoft’s best presentation in years, showing off new phones that can turn into computers; a Hololens augmented...
Sep 7, 2015 | computers, laptops, Lenovo, Microsoft, shopping, Surface, tablet, Windows10
In October the market will be flooded with new laptops and hybrids, powered by a new generation of Intel processor. If it’s convenient, wait a month or two to buy new computers. The manufacturers will almost completely turn over their lineups of computers and laptops...
Apr 26, 2015 | computers, laptops, shopping
It’s the little things that count. My mouse pad makes me happy. It’s my favorite $7 accessory. I’ve used a 3M Precise Mouse Pad for years. 3M calls it a “mousing surface.” It’s got a microtexture on the surface that you can barely feel with your fingers, something...
