Eric Grevstad

We can’t keep it. Our eval loan has run out and we have to return this Lenovo ThinkPad X300 review unit next week. But that’s all right. We’ll find a way. We can follow it back to Lenovo’s address in North Carolina. We can stalk it. Someday it’ll be in our arms again and we […]

Back in the day, we ran a regular feature dubbed Grand Openings in which we toured vendors’ Web sites to see how much PC you could buy on a $1,000 budget. These days, of course, spending a grand gets you a fairly formidable desktop or not-half-bad notebook: With the merest glance at BestBuy.com, we found […]

Logitech‘s latest top-of-the-line mouse boasts breathtaking design — a sleek, low-slung, black-and-chrome wedge that looks like a flying car from Blade Runner or a half-sized, sexed-up TV remote. It also features breathtaking versatility: In addition to gliding gracefully about your desk, the cordless MX Air works when held in midair and pointed at a PC […]

Butterfingers? If you’re like us, the word made you think of a candy bar (Get out of our heads, Nestlé! Damn you and your peanut-buttery goodness!), but of course it really refers to a clumsy person, one prone to accidentally dropping things. Like you. Don’t bother to deny it; we’ve all fumbled our car keys […]

Excuse us for a sec, OK? We’ll start the review momentarily but just need to switch into our Professional PC Critic Veteran Reviewer Voice Omigod! That is like the cutest thing EVER lemme see lemme see! Oh I so have to get one of these RIGHT NOW only two pounds could you DIE? Four C’s […]

Worst hangover from 2006: Wasn’t the brainless battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD supposed to be over by now? At least HDTV on PCs, or streamed from the den PC to the living-room TV, will get easier as TV tuners continue their maturation from analog-only to unscrambled over-the-air (antenna) digital to unscrambled cable (ClearQAM) to […]

Come on in! We’ve shoved monitors, printers, and laptops aside to make room for cake on the Labs, Weather, & Sports Desk, because it’s time for our fifth annual roundup of the most delightful and most dumbfounding products and technologies of the year. Got some cake? Got a fork? Flame on. Most boring, hard-to-follow battle: […]

How Much Desktop or Laptop Does $1,000 Get You? Forty years ago, TV viewers first marveled at the stop-motion puppet animation of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and sighed over the spotted elephant, Charlie- instead of Jack-in-the-box, and other denizens of the Island of Misfit Toys. Today, of course, stop-motion animation means playing Half-Life 2 on […]

The following is an excerpt from sister site CPU Planet. A full version of the story can be found by clicking here. Next week AMD will blitz the high-performance PC market with the launch of its Athlon 64 processor, but this week Intel Corp.is enjoying the spotlight — and telling PC manufacturers and users what […]

How Will Microsoft and HP Re-Invent the Business Desktop? With Xeel It’s the punch line of many a sexist joke, but Microsoft’s Web site links to a New Scientist article in which researchers from the software giant and Carnegie Mellon University told a computer-usability conference that, at least on screen, men really do navigate or […]