Eric Grevstad

PC peripherals, unlike women’s fashions, don’t come in a size zero. Even a downscaled or shrunken object still takes up space. So even if you choose to supplement your laptop’s touchpad with a petite notebook mouse instead of a full-sized desktop model, you still need to find a couple of inches of room in your […]

The next generation of this product is going to be terrific. — HardwareCentral review of HP TouchSmart IQ770, February 23, 2007 Yeah, we know, we’re all thinking it, so we might as well say the word and get it out of the way: iMac iMac iMac. More like next year’s iMac, actually, since Apple hasn’t […]

Source: Dell Dell joins the craze of ultraportable, low-cost notebooks with an 8.9-inch netbook starting at $349 with the popular Linux distribution and $399 with Windows XP. Both solid-state and online storage are standard. Asus’ Eee PC was first; Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Acer, MSI, and Lenovo followed; and now Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) has dived into […]

PC prices have come way down? A thousand bucks will buy you a first-class desktop? Even less will buy you a capable notebook? This is incredible! What’s that you say? Why yes, my name is Van Winkle. How did you know? Obviously it’s no longer news that even non-tech-savvy, non-wealthy consumers are buying PCs at […]

You might associate the image of a busy, BlackBerry-toting exec with the Fortune 500, but New York-based market watchers AMI-Partners say that smartphone e-mail, calendar, and contact access have trickled down from the enterprise to 31 percent of U.S. small businesses, with another 11 percent of such firms planning to purchase one. And one in […]

Whether it’s sold by generic white-box resellers or famous names like Dell and Apple, a huge percentage of PC hardware comes from Taiwan. That’s why the annual Computex trade show in Taipei always generates big news — with the biggest last year being Asus‘ announcement of the Eee PC at a promised price of $199. […]

We can’t keep it. Our eval loan has run out and we have to return this Lenovo ThinkPad X300 review unit next week. But that’s all right. We’ll find a way. We can follow it back to Lenovo’s address in North Carolina. We can stalk it. Someday it’ll be in our arms again and we […]

Back in the day, we ran a regular feature dubbed Grand Openings in which we toured vendors’ Web sites to see how much PC you could buy on a $1,000 budget. These days, of course, spending a grand gets you a fairly formidable desktop or not-half-bad notebook: With the merest glance at BestBuy.com, we found […]

Logitech‘s latest top-of-the-line mouse boasts breathtaking design — a sleek, low-slung, black-and-chrome wedge that looks like a flying car from Blade Runner or a half-sized, sexed-up TV remote. It also features breathtaking versatility: In addition to gliding gracefully about your desk, the cordless MX Air works when held in midair and pointed at a PC […]

Butterfingers? If you’re like us, the word made you think of a candy bar (Get out of our heads, Nestlé! Damn you and your peanut-buttery goodness!), but of course it really refers to a clumsy person, one prone to accidentally dropping things. Like you. Don’t bother to deny it; we’ve all fumbled our car keys […]

Excuse us for a sec, OK? We’ll start the review momentarily but just need to switch into our Professional PC Critic Veteran Reviewer Voice Omigod! That is like the cutest thing EVER lemme see lemme see! Oh I so have to get one of these RIGHT NOW only two pounds could you DIE? Four C’s […]

Worst hangover from 2006: Wasn’t the brainless battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD supposed to be over by now? At least HDTV on PCs, or streamed from the den PC to the living-room TV, will get easier as TV tuners continue their maturation from analog-only to unscrambled over-the-air (antenna) digital to unscrambled cable (ClearQAM) to […]