Buying a new PC isn’t the traumatic business it once was, if only because the typical price of a decent new desktop has dropped considerably in the last year. Where you used to have to look at around £1,000 for a well-specified computer, you can now look at around half that price, though you’ll usually [...]
With office space at a premium, the need for small, compact PCs becomes even more pressing. But the trick is to fulfil this aim without sacrificing anything in connectivity. With bulky monitors being replaced by flat panel screens as the price of these continues to fall, the main occupier of space becomes the system box.
The [...]
It’s well over a year on from the Year 2000 issue and the bug that never was, and many corporate IT managers are now better placed to view the PC market in a much calmer environment, and open their budgets to new products.
The 133MHz-based platform is now firmly established - not, as was predicted, using [...]
It’s nice to dream. If money really were no object and you were going out to buy a new PC, what would you pick? You can now get a really top-spec PC for around £2,000 and some manufacturers will offer something similarly stunning for a lot less.
Any PC is only as good as the components [...]