Oct 26, 2011 | Dell, hardware, laptops
Attentive readers will recall that a new platform for thin and light notebooks was announced by Intel a couple of months ago. The first Ultrabook notebooks are hitting the market in November. I haven’t seen these in person but they strike me as being good...
Oct 18, 2011 | hardware, network, wireless
Recently I set up a Cisco RV220W wireless router, and a Cisco WAP4410N wireless access point. They are part of Cisco’s small business line and cost roughly twice as much as comparable consumer products – roughly $260 for the router, for example. The wireless range...
Sep 29, 2011 | Amazon, Android, Apple, hardware, tablet
With its announcement of the Kindle Fire tablet on Wednesday, Amazon did something worthy of Apple: it invented a niche that it is likely to control, not directly competitive with anything currently on the market. You will see endless discussion about how the Kindle...
Sep 25, 2011 | broadband, hardware, Internet, network
The request was deceptively simple: Six very small offices want to share a single Internet connection. Each office wants to have a secure network for its own computers, not shared with the other offices. The offices want to share a single big Toshiba eStudio...
Sep 15, 2011 | Dell, hardware, shopping
When you’re wrestling with your computer and wondering why everything has to be so complicated, maybe it will help to know that you’re not alone. It’s not any better behind the curtains where we pull the levers and pretend to be wizards. Here’s a random story about...
Sep 6, 2011 | Dell, hardware, laptops, shopping
By the end of the year there will finally be a dozen or more reasonably-priced ultrathin, ultralight notebooks on the market, mostly priced under a thousand dollars. Almost three years ago Apple introduced the MacBook Air, an ultrathin 13” notebook. Even with an...
