Is the Blackberry Playbook Fire Sale Beginning?
Of the biggest tech stories in 2011 it was difficult to beat the news of the HP TouchPad fire sale where silly prices resulted in queues outside stores and websites crashing around […]
Buying a New PC? Don't Get Ripped off by Unscrupulous Salesmen!
I get a fair amount of email in my inbox at mike@MVPs.org from readers asking questions about how to do or fix A, B or C on their PCs. One email I […]
How will we control the computers of tomorrow?
Well that's it! Everybody, well some of the experts anyway seem to agree that the ageing keyboard and mouse just isn't going to cut it any more. It's just not a good enough way […]
Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone Review
In the first year since Microsoft's Windows Phone smartphones first launched I've tested and reviewed a fair few handsets and I've been able to get a good insight into how the operating […]
EXO PC Unveil the Future of Touch
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to get the world exclusive on my personal website for EXO PC's forthcoming EXOdesk. This is a 40-inch, 10 point multi-touch Viewsonic screen […]
Firmware... If it Isn't Broken, Should You Fix it?
It's an issue that polarises opinion and that splits people, those who even know about it anyway, straight down the middle. Should you update the OS or firmware on your device or […]
Intel Announce Knight's Corner, 22nm, 50 Cores
Fancy a processor with 1 teraflop of processing power in your PC? Intel have today unveiled their new Knight's Corner chip that uses a 22nm build process to pack a huge 50 […]
When will the Have-Not's Get PCs and Internet at Home?
It's been announced that US government is about to expand its scheme to get broadband and PCs into low-income households across America. It's a similar scheme to others that have been run […]
How Long Will Your SmartPhone Loyalty Last and Where Might You Jump?
Now that Nokia have launched their new Windows Phones, and cemented their future with Microsoft (at least for the foreseeable future) we're down to just four major players left in the smartphone space. […]
HP May Shut Down WebOS After All. What Does it Mean?
2011 has not been a good year for HP's WebOS tablet operating system. The year began with the company praising the product they had acquired when they bought Palm but there then […]
Acer Aspire Ethos 8951G Laptop Review
Of all the laptops available at the moment, the two categories that interest me most are ultraportables and full desktop replacements. Ultraportables can be incredibly useful for life on the move due […]
USB Big Mouse
When it comes to using a computer mouse, I like mine as plain and simple as possible. I only need three mouse buttons (left, right and middle) and a scroll wheel and […]
Curry's cut PlayBook Price by £150 in UK, but why?
British electronics retailer has today slashed the price of the RIM Playbook from £399.99 down to just £249.99, a decrease of £150. It's the most significant price drop for a tablet since […]
Dell drops to Third-Place Worldwide PC Maker
Figures released for the last quarter by IDC and Gartner show that, despite rumblings at HP that included rumours about dropping their entire PC division, the truly unprecedented Touchpad fire sale and […]
Apacer AC430 External Hard Drive
A few years back, buying an external hard drive meant buying an overpriced, loud, clunky housing, and then having to spring for a hard drive separately. It was, essentially, a pain. Even […]
MSI N550GTX-Ti Graphics Card Review
A video card is not just a video card, as any enthusiast will tell you. There is a hell of a lot that goes into the design and manufacture of these devices, […]
Parrot AR Drone
Remember when you were a kid and there was something that was just so cool that you absolutely had to have it? Even going so far as risking the ire of your […]
Samsung Smart TV D5500 40†LED TV
When it comes to TVs, we are really getting spoiled these days. Never before have we had access to the kind of vibrant picture quality that we can find on the market […]
Is the Amazon Kindle Tablet Coming September 28?
Amazon have today issued invitations to a "special press conference" on September 28 and the tech community is expecting the online retailer to formally announce the Kindle Tablet. The tablet, which has […]
Dell Precision M6600 Workstation Laptop Review
Laptops come in all shapes and sizes these days from tiny netbooks to sexy ultraportables and everyday value machines. Then however there are the workstations. These laptops are designed with the needs of […]
HP TouchPad Review
The HP TouchPad is dead, long live the HP TouchPad! It feels very odd reviewing a product that you can't buy any more. When you factor in though that this new tablet […]
The HP TouchPad Fire Sale... Was it Worth it?
Last week when HP announced both that it was going to sell off its PC division, but also that it was dropping its WebOS devices, the tech community went into shock. This […]
The Benefits of Raid 5
If you’ve every suffered a hard drive failure, you’ll know how it feels to lose data. Even if you have a backup, it can be a pain having to copy everything back […]
Extend your Wireless Network with a Repeater
If you have a wireless network at home, and your house has many rooms, or if you want to surf the internet while sitting outside on your patio, you may need to […]
HP kills WebOS, PC Business up for Sale!
This can hardly be believed but it's actually true and not some cruel joke. Having only just released the first WebOS tablet after having purchased Palm last year, and having spent the […]
Is the era of the PC over?
PCs are going the way of typewriters according to an engineer who worked on the original IBM PC. Â In a blog post to mark the 30th anniversary of the IBM PC 5150, […]
Lenovo U1 Convertible Tablet finally goes to the FCC
This was the convertible tablet that started it all back in January 2010. The Lenovo U1 hybrid tablet / laptop concept was shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas […]
Logitech G930 Wireless PC Gaming Headset Review
Up until a few days ago I worked with wired PC headset exclusively. That worked considerably well, with the exception of the rate that I burned through those headsets. I usually needed […]
Samsung ML-1865W Laser Printer Review
Have you ever wanted a laser printer at home, or even a wireless laser printer, but not had the money to be able to afford one? Well things have changed radically in […]
Cleaning the Inside of a Computer
The insides of computers get dusty and grubby, it's just a fact of life. Running all those electrical components builds up tiny static charges which draw in dust that clings to the […]
Memory Microchip: No Longer Science Fiction
Since the days of Star Wars and Star Trek, we’ve dreamed of technological advances that would make us faster, stronger and capable of doing more than ever before. Sure, we’re not quite […]
Why can we still not print from Smartphones and Tablets?
When mankind first started using computers one of the very first peripherals anybody would buy was a printer. Printing documents was just about the one thing people liked having computers for, and […]
How the Samsung Series 9 made me fall in love with laptops
Last week I reviewed the Samsung Series 9 laptop and you can read Part 1 and Part 2 of my reviews here. Today the review unit goes back but I thought it […]
Samsung Series 9 Ultraportable Review… Part 2
This week I've been testing Samsung's new Ultraportable laptop, their Macbook Air equivalent. Yesterday I wrote about the hardware itself which is absolutely gorgeous and even lighter than the Air. Today I'll […]
Samsung Series 9 Ultraportable Review... Part 1
In the race to beat the Macbook Air for size and portability, there have been precious few Windows laptops. Indeed so far we've only seen Sony's Z Series and the Dell Adamo […]
Building A Custom PC 2011 Part 2: First Draft
In Building A Custom PC 2011 Part 1: The Assessment I mentioned what I'd needed in a new Pc that I was about to build. I have mentioned my expectations and other […]
Why Smaller Really Is Getting Better
There have been two recent advancements in technology that will make it easier for manufacturers to put a lot more punch in smaller packages. Intel released news about a new 3d transistor […]
Toshiba Self-Encrypting Hard Drives With Host Authorization
The best way to protect data on one of your storage devices is to encrypt it. There are several free solutions out there, for instance by using the Open Source encryption software […]
Building A Custom PC 2011 Part 1: The Assessment
I'm building a new PC every 18 months or so and post the progress of selecting the right PC components here on this blog. I actually spend more most of my time […]
Logitech Illuminated Keyboards Review
As people are using PCs for many more things at home and the computer itself has become, in a few cases, an objet d'art in the case of some all-in-one devices companies are putting […]
