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Walt provides some tips for making laptop purchases. First, you may want to wait to get that new laptop until later this year or early in 2008. There are a number of interesting new hardware features coming.(Video)
Walt gives his annual spring buyer’s guide to desktop PCs, including tips for the Windows Vista operating system.
Many people are furious about so-called craplets, the unwanted programs that come loaded on most new PCs. Until computer makers stop dumping these junk programs on us, here are some strategies for avoiding them.
New PCs force consumers to spend hours weeding out teaser software and ads that slow down the machines. The problem is a lack of respect for the consumer: manufacturers don’t act as if the computer belongs to you.
The FlipStart, part of a new wave of tiny Windows PCs, has a decent battery life, but its awkward, in-between size and $2,000 price tag is likely to keep it a niche product. (Video)
Some of the most interesting video online isn’t on YouTube. In some corners of the Web, people are producing real, episodic TV shows.
Walt Mossberg explains how he makes his weekly Web videos — and how viewers can easily do so as well.
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.
Novatel has come out with a couple of new ExpressCard versions for Cingular and Verizon cellular broadband networks. I recommend both new cards. But the two high-speed networks are very different.
Using small gadgets called Powerline adapters, you can route your Internet connection around your house over your power lines. It really works and it’s fast, Walt Mossberg says. (Video)
A new version of Wi-Fi, generally known as draft-N, promises greater speed, greater range and standardization, but may not deliver any of those things. Walt Mossberg tests some of this latest Wi-Fi gear, with mixed results.
Nokia’s new tiny computer performs its main function, Web browsing, better than other pocket devices. But it falls down badly on many other tasks.
Walt Mossberg looks at the tangled collection of cables, chargers and spare batteries that he carries for his electronic devices and wonders why there isn’t more standardization.
Apple’s Intel-powered computers can run both Windows and Mac OS X, but now there’s an even better approach. Parallels Desktop lets users run Mac and Windows programs simultaneously, giving them the best of both worlds.
There’s a lot to like about Apple’s new MacBook, especially the price. Like other Intel-based Macs, it can run Windows alongside the Mac operating system. But it’s missing features that are standard on Windows-based laptops.
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