Eric Grevstad

Anyone looking for a powerful notebook with a price that won’t destroy the company’s bottom line will appreciate the Winbook W360 — unless long-lasting battery life is the next item on the wish list. By including Intel’s new Pentium M 735 processor, Winbook’s used the first-class speedster to build a thin and portable laptop. We […]

The Lexmark C510n may not be built around the latest laser color printer engine, but what it lacks in that particular technology the C510n more than makes up for it in affordable pricing, networking capabilities and quality output. The fully office-and- network ready C510n comes with the magic $999 price tag, 128MB of onboard memory […]

Once you start using WordPerfect Office 12, you won’t miss Microsoft Office. That’s not to say that Microsoft’s dominant productivity suite isn’t great software, or for that matter that Corel’s blows it away; both are first-class, formidably powerful word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation combos, though extra conveniences ranging from friendlier formatting help to built-in Adobe […]

Like to stay ahead of the curve and on top of trends? By the time your buddy joined the fad and bought a Hummer, you’d traded yours in on a Prius? Now that LCD monitors have entered the mainstream, you’re looking at plasma panels? Good. Xeroxwould like to show you what comes after the under-$1,000 […]

For a couple of years, vendors have been referring to full-featured notebook PCs as a “desktop replacements,” but in the case of Fujitsu Computer Systems’ LifeBook N5000 that isn’t strictly accurate. The flagship of the LifeBook line should properly be called a “desktop and monitor replacement,” because it packs not only considerable computing power — […]

We’ve often joined the chorus criticizing Microsoft for hyping forthcoming, oh-boy-it’s-gonna-be-fabulous, don’t-even-think-about-buying-a-competitor products, then sailing far past their promised ship dates. But we think it would have been nice if Works Suite 2004 had been pushed back a couple of months instead of shipping on schedule last fall. That’s because the two main components of […]

No, it doesn’t come with cardboard glasses. When Sharp Systems of America calls the Actius RD3D the world’s first autostereo notebook, it’s referring not to its sound system but to stereoscopic vision — push the big, backlit 3D button above the keyboard, and the laptop’s 15.0-inch LCD screen can show images in three dimensions with […]

If you could have only one program on your PC — not one office suite, just one program — what would it be? A word processor? A Web browser or e-mail client? A spreadsheet, scheduler, database, outliner, newsgroup reader? Micro Logic bills its Info Select as all of the above — but, first and foremost, […]

OK, a color laser printer priced within reach of small offices, workgroups, or even individuals with $800 to spend is no longer new or startling. But how about one that prints faster in color than in monochrome? Cue Bill Murray in Ghostbusters: “Volcanoes, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!” All right, Bill […]

As we took the Gateway 610XL Media Center out of the box, we were already mentally drafting this review: A well-equipped Windows XP Media Center 2004 desktop with stylish all-in-one design for $2,000 … You could get a comparable, conventional HP Media Center PC and separate 17-inch LCD monitor for $250 less, and you’d be […]

Over the years, our quarterly quest for sub-$1,000 desktop and notebook computers has gotten easier and easier — we’ve gone from disqualifying systems that lacked modem and Ethernet ports to disqualifying systems without CD burners — but frankly, 2004 looks like the year this feature stops making compromises, or even making sense. For instance, we […]

Here’s news you already know: Digital cameras just keep getting sharper, more feature-packed, and more affordable. Point-and-shoot cameras with 2-megapixel resolution have all but been replaced by models with truly 8-by-10-inch-print-worthy, 3 or even 4-megapixel clarity. Cameras with 5-megapixel resolution and sophisticated mixes of automatic and manual controls are rapidly entering the mainstream. Price-wise, the […]