On the heels of announcing blockbuster earnings for the past quarter, Apple unveils a slew of new products, including a pair of iMacs with razor-sharp, 16:9 displays, a redesigned plastic MacBook, and a new mouse that you can swipe with your fingertip, à Read More

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Solid-state hard drives are rapidly moving from luxury splurge item that CEOs drop into their $3,500 laptops to gear suitable for the mainstream. ... Read More

Remember Compaq? Hewlett-Packard acquired the venerable computer company way back in 2002, but it's kept the name alive as a secondary brand ever since, mainly relegating Compaq to overseas markets (Compaq is particularly popular in Asia) and as second-ti Read More

Why'd your computer crash on you? It's easy to blame Microsoft or a bum device driver (I know, I do it all the time, myself), but any number of issues may really be at fault when the blue screen of death comes a-callin'. ... Read More

Patent applications from Apple are a dime a dozen, but this one's particularly intriguing: imagine a contoured touch-sensitive surface that lets you type, swipe, and tap using all ten of your fingers at once, including the ability to use fingers on both h Read More

Quick, what are the first six letters on the top left of the computer keyboard? You know them by heart, and "QWERTY" has become a standard of almost insurmountable proportions.Now everyone knows that QWERTY is inefficient. ... Read More

As any regular reader of this blog should know by now, Windows 7 arrives on October 22.But waiting for the doors to open? That's for suckers only. ... Read More

Please, please, please don't block the sale of Microsoft Word.That's the Read More

Baffled by whether you need DDR2 or DDR3 RAM? Don't know whether a 7200rpm hard drive is required on your rig or if 5400rpm is good enough? And what are your thoughts on that most arcane of PC specs: The size of your microchip's L2 cache?If you're confuse Read More