Eric Grevstad

A year ago, HP jumped into the netbook market. Well, stepped in. Well, put a toe in. The HP 2133 was a 2.9-pound portable with a glossy 8.9-inch display and one of the nicest, nearest-to-full-sized keyboards — 92 percent of full size, HP bragged — yet seen in the segment. But while the 2133’s specifications […]

This can’t be right. Fujitsu says its new desktop replacement notebook has a cinematic 16:9-aspect-ratio screen for watching high-definition videos or Blu-ray movies. This LCD divides out to 16:9 all right, but its resolution is too low. And it’s only 4 inches big, for God’s sake, you need to squint to see the actors and […]

The Logitech Illuminated Keyboard is one of the best desktop keyboards we’ve ever tested. So is the Logitech DiNovo Keyboard for Notebooks. Wait a minute. What’s a Keyboard for Notebooks — that’s what it says on the box — doing on a desktop? Doesn’t the name imply some sort of compact or portable device? Not […]

OK, boys and girls, today we’re going on a treasure hunt. Well, treasure may be an exaggeration, but it sounds better than “we’re going on a quite-nice-PC hunt.” Our treasure map isn’t much — it’s just a list of computer retailers torn from the Yellow Pages — but there’s a cryptic message scrawled across it. […]

PC peripherals, unlike women’s fashions, don’t come in a size zero. Even a downscaled or shrunken object still takes up space. So even if you choose to supplement your laptop’s touchpad with a petite notebook mouse instead of a full-sized desktop model, you still need to find a couple of inches of room in your […]

The next generation of this product is going to be terrific. — HardwareCentral review of HP TouchSmart IQ770, February 23, 2007 Yeah, we know, we’re all thinking it, so we might as well say the word and get it out of the way: iMac iMac iMac. More like next year’s iMac, actually, since Apple hasn’t […]

Source: Dell Dell joins the craze of ultraportable, low-cost notebooks with an 8.9-inch netbook starting at $349 with the popular Linux distribution and $399 with Windows XP. Both solid-state and online storage are standard. Asus’ Eee PC was first; Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Acer, MSI, and Lenovo followed; and now Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) has dived into […]

PC prices have come way down? A thousand bucks will buy you a first-class desktop? Even less will buy you a capable notebook? This is incredible! What’s that you say? Why yes, my name is Van Winkle. How did you know? Obviously it’s no longer news that even non-tech-savvy, non-wealthy consumers are buying PCs at […]

You might associate the image of a busy, BlackBerry-toting exec with the Fortune 500, but New York-based market watchers AMI-Partners say that smartphone e-mail, calendar, and contact access have trickled down from the enterprise to 31 percent of U.S. small businesses, with another 11 percent of such firms planning to purchase one. And one in […]

Whether it’s sold by generic white-box resellers or famous names like Dell and Apple, a huge percentage of PC hardware comes from Taiwan. That’s why the annual Computex trade show in Taipei always generates big news — with the biggest last year being Asus‘ announcement of the Eee PC at a promised price of $199. […]