HP DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CENTER z545

Dec 7, 2004 | audio, computers, hardware, video

HP has introduced a device for the living room that comes closer to a vision of the future than anything else on the market. The HP Digital Entertainment Center z545 ($1,999) is a computer at its heart, but that’s almost incidental. It’s a 480-line...

THE GADGET EXPLOSION

Dec 2, 2004 | hardware

We’re entering the golden age of gadgets. Walking the aisles at Best Buy is an eye-opening experience – there’s already an overwhelming range of choices, innovations, and features at rapidly falling prices, and the pace is only increasing. The level...

LCD PRICES DROPPING

Dec 1, 2004 | hardware

Slowly but surely LCD prices are coming down. An example in today’s junk mail: Costco Online has a good price on some highly rated Xerox flat panel monitors – a 17″ model (Xerox XL775D) for $329.99 or a 19″ model (Xerox XL795D) for...

MULTIMEDIA

Oct 30, 2004 | audio, hardware, video

Aging baby boomers will soon be unable to recognize anything handling media in the home of an affluent 25-year-old. The convergence between the computer world and the audio/video world is happening faster than anyone can follow. There are dozens of devices hitting the...

PRICE DROPS ON MEMORY DEVICES

Sep 9, 2004 | hardware

Prices are down and capacities are up on memory cards and devices. Here’s some random examples from a sale at Buy.com tonight: – 1Gb Compact Flash card for $82. It was impossible to get a gigabyte on a memory card until very recently, and this is marked...

LASER MOUSE

Sep 1, 2004 | hardware

Most of you have switched over to an optical mouse – no more gunk clogging up the ball, no more jerking the mouse hard to force the cursor to move, right? By now you’ve found out that the optical mouse is not quite as forgiving as they made it sound, and...