More Desktop PCs Opinion

  • 12 November 2012

  • Opinion: Build a killer Windows 8 gaming PC for under $1,000

    Building a fast gaming PC is easier than ever. Building a fast gaming PC on a tight budget is a little harder—not because of the building, but because of the shopping. You have to scour the web (or your favorite retail stores) for the right prices on components.

  • 07 November 2012

  • Opinion: Tiny $57 PC is like the Raspberry Pi, but faster and fully open

    It would be difficult to overstate the popularity of the tiny Raspberry Pi computer that launched earlier this year, but it's just one example of a rapidly growing class of small, inexpensive, Linux-powered devices, as I've already noted on several occasions before.

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Everybody was kung-fu fighting

    Apple may dip Intel chips, OS X 10.9 is waking up from a cat nap, and Amazon's taking home the bacon in Europe. The remainders for Tuesday, November 6, 2012 are fast as lightning.

  • 01 November 2012

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: The world is flat

    Apple executive Eddy Cue gets a flattering write-up, Motorola gets a flat take-it-or-leave-it offer from Cupertino, and how to turn your older Mac's drives into a Fusion Drive in twenty-seven hours flat. The remainders for Wednesday, October 31, 2012 are flat broke.

  • 30 October 2012

  • Opinion: Ding, dong, Wintel witch is dead!

    Could it be that the Wintel duopoly of Microsoft’s Windows plus Intel’s processors, a partnership that had the personal-computer industry in a stranglehold through most of the past two decades, is dead?

  • 29 October 2012

  • Opinion: Increase your laptop's storage

    When you first get a laptop it can seem inconceivable that you might fill up all that empty space on your hard disk. However, it very quickly disappears. Keeping all your video, music and documents stored safely is easy though as there are plenty of options to expand the storage space you have available.

  • 26 October 2012

  • Opinion: Bugs & Fixes: Work-arounds for sound loss, trailer failure, and over-full iPads

    My Apple hardware has recently been bothered by several unrelated bugs—ranging from alert sound loss on my Mac Pro to free space mysteriously disappearing from my iPad. While I’ve figured out satisfactory work-arounds for most of these symptoms, they still defy a complete and permanent solution. Here are a quartet of the ones that have frustrated me the most:

  • Opinion: The Land Before Macs: A field guide

    Since we live in the era of the Mac and the iPhone, we tend to overlook the earliest, non-Mac era of Apple history—a time when lumbering digital beasts roamed the earth. As a result, many misconceptions about Apple's earliest products continue to spread throughout the Internet unchecked. It's time to rectify that with an authoritative field guide to these early creatures.

  • 19 October 2012

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: In living color

    Apple picking up talent on the cheap? Color me surprised. Elsewhere, the company legally has to admit that Samsung’s tablets just aren’t cool enough for school and those new desktop Macs might be almost the same as those old desktop Macs. The remainders for Thursday, October 18, 2012 view the world through rose-colored glasses.

  • 17 October 2012

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Rumor has it

    Rumors abound of Apple updating every single product line at next week’s media event, even as the company apparently winds down its relationship with Samsung. Elsewhere, the iPod nano is dissected … for science! The remainders for Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are a tale told by idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  • 03 October 2012

  • Opinion: Resizing a Boot Camp partition

    Reader Richard Lanier has a Windows issue—no, not that issue, but rather one involving size. He writes:

  • 02 October 2012

  • Opinion: Chips off a new block

    Time was when the processor wars raged between Intel and AMD. New skirmishes are now breaking out in the smartphone and tablet mobile world, with Intel determined to make its presence known by doggedly reducing the size and power requirements of the ageing PC chip architecture.

  • 12 September 2012

  • Opinion: Intel preps tiny 'Next Unit of Computing' for October ship

    Small form factors are the new black, and Intel wants in on the action. Compact systems such as Lenovo's ThinkCentre M92p fill a niche between all-in-one PCs and standard desktop PCs. They take up little space and can be hidden away, yet still offer substantial PC performance. Intel wants to push small form factors even smaller, with its new ultra-compact form factor.

  • 10 September 2012

  • Opinion: HP tries to trump iMac with SpectreONE

    With a refresh of Apple's iMac line expected soon, Hewlett-Packard appears to be trying to steal some of i-maker's thunder with a new sleek-looking all-in-one PC, the SpectreONE, running Microsoft Windows 8.

  • 30 August 2012

  • Opinion: The New 'Pure GNOME' Ubuntu Linux Is Coming This Fall

    Earlier this month fans of the good old GNOME 2 desktop environment got some exciting news when it became clear that a version of Ubuntu Linux featuring the classic desktop was in the works.

  • 27 August 2012

  • Opinion: PC-in-a-Keyboard Comes with Ubuntu Linux Preloaded

    The past six months or so have seen a veritable flurry of tiny, Linux-powered PCs descend upon the market, including not just the widely embraced Raspberry Pi but also the Mele A1000, the MK802, and the Oval Elephant, to name just a few.

  • 17 July 2012

  • Opinion: How to Build a PC for Photographers

    You love taking photos. You carry your DSLR or mirrorless camera along wherever you go. You’re always checking out new Photoshop filters or interesting editing applications. You have a Flickr Pro or Smugmug account, and you upload hundreds of photos a year. Now you want a PC that can be responsive and fast when you're editing and tweaking your pictures.

  • 16 July 2012

  • Opinion: Office 15: 5 Things We Want to See

    Microsoft has said little so far about Office 15, the codename for the successor to the current Office 2010, but on Monday, all will likely be revealed.

  • 13 July 2012

  • Opinion: PC Sales Slip as Shoppers Wait

    Not even Ultrabooks could spur recent PC sales as prospective buyers wait for new Windows 8-powered hardware to debut in October or look to alternative devices such as tablets and smartphones. That's the word from market research firms Gartner and IDC along with their estimates of PC shipment volume for the second quarter of 2012.

  • 26 June 2012

  • Opinion: Casemod Turns Your Desk Into a PC, Looks Stellar

    It's been a while since we've seen a really great casemod, and this impressive--and doable--PC built into a desk is just too good to pass up.

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