Eric Grevstad

It may be cliché, but in this case good things do come in small packages. And HardwareCentral.com has all the details on the smallest desktop we’ve seen — the Viewsonic PC Mini VOT132. It’s thin, but it’s no thin client: ViewSonic‘s VOT132 ($449 at ViewSonic’s online store) is one of the smallest PCs you can […]

Looking for a lightweight powerhouse that you can tote on the road without paying a portable premium? HardwareCentral.com has the in-depth details on Gateway’s EC1430u netbook. Netbooks are great. They’re light (less than three pounds), low-priced ($300 to $400), handy traveling companions that are great for surfing the Web and checking e-mail and adequate for […]

Ready to project the image of a successful entrepreneur, but your wallet didn’t get the memo yet? HardwareCentral.com takes a close look at HP’s latest ultraportable notebook — it’s got a price you can’t help but love. Looks aren’t everything. There’s also money. That sounds pretty shallow of us, but appearance and price are the […]

Here’s a small business shopping scenario: You’ve got two printers at virtually the same price. One is brand-spanking new…the other is slightly older, but it offers more and better features. Which one would you buy? That’s the dilemma Eric Grevsted takes on over at HardwareCentral.com as he reviews the latest color laser from Xerox. It’s […]

Plenty of small businesses want and need to set a stylish tone for the public areas in their offices. The good news is they don’t have to spend big bucks to do it. Eric Grevstad at HardwareCentral.com reviews the HP’s Pavilion All-in-One MS214 and finds that it offers a lot more than good looks. We’ve […]

A dot-matrix printer. Seriously, that’s what came to mind when we saw the fastest or draft-mode output of the Epson WorkForce 610. We gaped, gawked, flashed back to the early days of PC printing: wiggly, jaggedy text — or illegible hieroglyphics in the case of small fonts — and pale, widely spaced dots forming ghostly […]

Glass: The final frontier. For as long as there have been optical mice, there have been disclaimers that they don’t work on glass-topped desks or tables because the smooth, featureless surface doesn’t give the mouse sensor enough contrast to compare its position from one millisecond to the next. Even as LED optical designs have yielded […]

There’s Savings in the Suffix Someone at Toshiba has an M.B.A. in customer confusion. The company sells two different netbooks, each called the Mini NB205. The way to tell the pair apart is to look at either the keyboard or price tag. The system seen here, model number NB205-N210, has a conventional grid-style keyboard and […]

If you’re a fan of Flip 3D, you’ll like Microsoft‘s new cordless keyboard-and-mouse combo. The keyboard has a dedicated key — to the right of the space bar, between Alt and the context-menu key — that summons Windows’ shuffle-stack of active application screens. Pressing the key repeatedly cycles through the screens; pressing Enter brings a […]

If there’s one thing you can tell about Lenovo, it’s that the company doesn’t like having idle hands around the place: Even as its netbook engineers were working on the company’s new 12-inch model, the IdeaPad S12, Lenovo called for a makeover of its existing 10.1-inch netbook. So say goodbye to the IdeaPad S10 and […]

When they’re not trading tales of taxi-line traumas and bad-hotel horror stories, frequent travelers like to swap brags and boasts: One time I jumped from standby for coach to a free seat in business class. I made it from O’Hare gate C2 to B17 in ten minutes flat. Or, with the Logitech Bluetooth Mouse M555b: […]

If you could get a full-featured notebook that weighed and cost only a little more than a netbook, would you? Duh, of course you would. The trouble is, “real” laptops in the price range of Asus Eees and HP Minis and MSI Winds tend to be big, clunky things, while most ultra-portables — 12.1-inch notebooks […]