Computers
Diablo III on a MacBook Air? I know, it’s like asking Steve Rogers to fight the Red Skull before guzzling the super serum, what with the Air’s low-speed Intel CPU and anemic Intel integrated 3D graphics. Still, other players had me hopeful enough to give it the old college try.
This fall, the tech market will witness a perfect storm as three major technologies and industry forces converge to deliver a whole host of new products for consumers.
From the View-Master to the iPhone, 14 memorable gizmos that exude a style all their own.
A recently-uncovered video and an awards ceremony pay tribute to Andrew Fluegelman — programmer, editor and radical thinker.
If you need a dirt-cheap desktop PC and don’t mind Android, $74 will get you one that fits in your pocket.
Apple’s next 15-inch MacBook Pro will reportedly be much thinner than its predecessors, at the expense of a DVD drive.
HP has a thin-and-light notebook for almost everybody. But you can’t tell the Ultrabooks from the Sleekbooks from the notebooks.
Apple may launch a significantly less expensive MacBook Air to undercut sales of next-gen “ultrabook” style laptops due in the second quarter of this year. It’s just another rumor, mind you, but if it happened, the thinking is that it could frustrate Intel’s plans to push budget-priced ultrabooks in the second half of 2012.
Moore’s Law, Intel’s way of describing the way computing power increases periodically, is finally breaking down, according to theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. So where do we go once Gordon Moore’s axiom runs out of steam?
Surprise, NVIDIA has a new insanely expensive dual-GPU graphics card in the offing, and you can have it already this Thursday, May 3…that is, if you’re willing to pay twice what the company’s charging for its flagship single-GPU model.
Microsoft and Barnes & Noble are joining hands to form a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary that’ll be dubbed “Newco” (get it?) until someone comes up with a better name. The “strategic” venture, into which Microsoft says it will pour $300 million, is designed to “accelerate the transition to e-reading,” as well as symbolically lay to rest a patent dispute that’s been ongoing since March 2011.
