Eric Grevstad

The Best, the Worst and the Ugliest: 2005

Come on in! We've shoved monitors, printers, and laptops aside to make room for cake on the Labs, Weather, & Sports Desk, because it's time for our...

Grand Openings, December 2004

How Much Desktop or Laptop Does $1,000 Get You? Forty years ago, TV viewers first marveled at the stop-motion puppet animation of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"...

Intel Gets Extreme

The following is an excerpt from sister site CPU Planet. A full version of the story can be found by clicking here. Next week AMD will blitz the...

E.G. for Example: The ‘Athens’ PC — It’s Greek To Me

How Will Microsoft and HP Re-Invent the Business Desktop? With Xeel It's the punch line of many a sexist joke, but Microsoft's Web site links to a New...

Intel Accelerates Pentium 4 Platform

Last week, Intel Corp.'s flagship processor was a Pentium 4 running at 3.06GHz; today, it's a Pentium 4 running at the fractionally slower 3.0GHz. What happened? A...

Intel Centrino, AMD Athlon XP-M Spark Lightweight Laptop Blitz

Everybody Get Unplugged This article also appears on Jupitermedia's CPU Planet site. Desktops? Those old things? If you've seen the advertising spreads in this morning's papers, you know...

Intel Unveils Four New Pentium 4 Chipsets

A few hours after partners like Dell and Gateway posted new PC offerings on their Web sites, Intel Corp. has formally announced the new Pentium 4 desktop...

PC State of the Union

Mr. Speaker, members of forums, honored guests, my fellow Americans and PC users worldwide: Our constitution decrees that the columnist shall from time to time give information...

The Best, the Worst, and the Ugliest

Few of us would call 2001 a good year, and all of us would gladly trade an even worse recession or high-tech slump for a...

Opinion: Microsoft’s First Amendment

I'm trying to stay calm about this. Actually, I'm trying to think of a comparable example of a company having an image problem, yet plowing ahead, bull-headed...

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