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Consider Your Needs, Then Use This Guide to Buying a Laptop

With laptops outselling desktop PCs, Walt Mossberg offers a quick guide to the key factors you should consider when buying notebook computers.

Published on April 10, 2008 in Personal Technology

Apple’s Time Capsule Gives You Easy Way to Back Up Wirelessly

Apple’s new Time Capsule packs both a giant hard disk and a speedy Wi-Fi wireless router into one slender case, allowing computers to easily back up their hard drives wirelessly.

Published on March 6, 2008 in Personal Technology

Big Update for Vista Leaves Little Changed for Mainstream Users

Microsoft’s first major update to its Windows Vista operating system, called Service Pack 1, is probably worth installing, but for most average consumers it will likely be a nonevent.

Published on February 14, 2008 in Personal Technology

Multitouch Interface Is Starting to Spread Among New Devices

“Multitouch,” the iPhone-style interface that lets users manipulate lists or objects without a mouse or keyboard, is catching on. Rival companies are scrambling to add multitouch features to laptops and other digital gadgets.

Published on January 31, 2008 in Personal Technology

Leopard: Faster, Easier Than Vista

Apple’s new version of OS X, called Leopard, builds on Apple’s quality advantage over Windows, says Walt Mossberg. Leopard is better and faster than Vista, with a set of new features that make Macs even easier to use.

Published on October 25, 2007 in Personal Technology

New Dell Vostro Line Misses Mark in Aim For Tiny Businesses

The new line of Dell computers aimed at small businesses without IT departments are mostly a marketing ploy at the moment. Video

Published on August 23, 2007 in Personal Technology

A $99 Desktop Comes With Software, Backup and Too Many Catches

Walt Mossberg tests a $99 desktop computer that comes with software, online backup, and has a design that cuts energy use. However, there are several catches that prevent him from recommending the computer.

Published on August 9, 2007 in Personal Technology

Nokia’s Marriage To Small Computers Still Has Its Problems

Nokia is pursuing a radical product: a hand-held computer that isn’t a cellphone at all. The N800 has some nice features, Walt says, but the software is unpolished and it’s hard to imagine users carrying it around. (Video)

Published on February 22, 2007 in Personal Technology

Anyone Can Produce, And Star, in a Video — Just like Mine

Walt Mossberg explains how he makes his weekly Web videos — and how viewers can easily do so as well.

Published on February 8, 2007 in Personal Technology

Vista: Worthy, Largely Unexciting

Vista is the best version of Windows that Microsoft has produced, Walt Mossberg says. But while navigation has been improved, the successor to XP isn’t a breakthrough in ease of use.

Published on January 18, 2007 in Personal Technology

H-P and Lenovo Offer New Wave of Laptops: Small and Affordable

New diminutive, portable PCs, from H-P and Lenovo, should help lighten the briefcases of road warriors without lightening their wallets too much.

Published on May 18, 2006 in Personal Technology

Boot Camp Turns Your Mac Into a Reliable Windows PC

Apple’s “Boot Camp” software lets Mac users turn their machines into a fast, full-fledged Windows computer if they choose, with only a few minor annoyances.

Published on April 6, 2006 in Personal Technology

Computer Makers Cater to Big Business, Slight the Rest of Us

The world would be better off if the biggest computer companies started catering more to the non-IT part of the market, where most computers live, writes Walt Mossberg.

Published on December 29, 2005 in Personal Technology

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