I’ll have more to say about the IdeaCentre Horizon in a few weeks, after I’ve spent more time with it. But it’s already …
PCs
The iPad-Sized Nail in the PC’s Coffin
There’s no question about it: the perils are deep and wide for companies whose primary business is making PCs.
Xi3′s Piston: A Steam Box Emerges, Sort Of
One of the great tech news stripteases in recent memory is the supposed development of a “Steam Box,” a home gaming system based on Valve’s beloved PC gaming service.
The Tablet Story Is Getting Stronger
2012 has been an interesting year for tablets. We’ve seen forecasts changed and adjusted to demonstrate increasing and rapid market demand. We’ve engaged in the debate both publicly and privately about whether tablets are PCs or …
PC in Your Pocket: $74 Android Stick Goes on Sale
If you need a dirt-cheap desktop PC and don’t mind Android, $74 will get you one that fits in your pocket.
The MK802 “Android 4.0 Mini PC” just popped up at online retailer AliExpress. It has a single-core 1.5 GHz processor, …
Windows 8′s Near-Final ‘Release Preview’ Coming Early June
Microsoft will let users try a near-final version of Windows 8 starting the first week of June.
Coming Soon: Ultrabook Price Cuts
If you’re thinking about buying an Ultrabook–a thin and light Windows laptop that’s meant to rival Apple’s MacBook Air–you might want to wait until April.
That’s when Intel is expected to launch its Ivy Bridge processor …
TechnologizerTechnologizer
Why We Need a New Definition of ‘PC’
It’s time to update our perceptions about a decades-old device that’s evolving more rapidly than ever.
5 Kinect Windows Apps I’d Like to See
Now that Kinect hardware is available for Windows, app developers can get busy bringing voice and motion control to desktop PCs. Microsoft is already working on Kinect Windows apps with hundreds of partners, including American …
TechnologizerComputers
Ten Ways to Celebrate the IBM PC’s 30th Anniversary
Thirty years ago today, IBM announced its first PC, the 5150. It wasn’t the best PC of its era, or even the most interesting—but it was surely the most important one. That’s because it spawned a standard that quickly came to dominate the market, and which continues to this day. If you’re reading this on a Windows computer, you’re using …
TechnologizerComputers
How Long Until the Cloud Renders Hard Drives Obsolete?
Over at TIME.com, my Technologizer column this week is about cloud storage: ways to keep photos, music, movies, and other files on the Internet, so they’re available from all your computers and gizmos. I cover a bunch of ways to get the job done, but none of them are purely cloud based. In every instance, hard drives attached locally to …
TechnologizerTablets
Is It Even Possible to Make Windows Work Well On a Tablet?
Rumor has it that Steven Sinofsky–the guy who runs Windows for Microsoft–will show off the next version of Windows at the Wall Street Journal’s “D” conference next week. (I used that possibility as an excuse to write about the Windows 8 I’d like to see for this week’s Technologizer column over on TIME.com.)
Sinofsky will supposedly …
