Manufacturers and suppliers of notebooks are sometimes rather too free with their use of the term ‘desktop replacement’. They would have us believe that this or that portable PC will simply make a conventional desktop redundant by doing all the same tricks but out of a vastly smaller box.
This is misleading, but it doesn’t necessarily [...]
Personal digital assistants (PDAs, or palmtops if you prefer) have come of age. Whatever the operating system they use, these gadgets are now as popular with consumers as they are with the business community. So we’ve decided to take another look (you can read our last round-up here) at these pocket-sized computers.
Microsoft’s recently launched Pocket [...]
It wasn’t so long ago that the sub-notebook was thought of as an expensive toy: fine for people doing lightweight work on the move, but of no use for serious business applications.
How times have changed. Today’s ultra portables are now hard on the heels of their bigger brothers, in terms of both performance and functionality, [...]
Get ready; the year 2000 is going to be the year of DVD. While the movie giants have been arguing over disc formats and various schemes to protect their distribution and source material on DVD-ROM, another format has been gaining ground, so here we’re taking a look at five DVD-RAM drives that are available now [...]