Eric Grevstad

What makes the Fujitsu LifeBook P7230 exceptionally easy to carry? Well, there’s the subnotebook’s small size — 7.9 by 10.8 by 1.2 inches. And its light weight — 2.94 pounds, including the DVD±RW drive that many ultra-portables omit or put at the far end of a USB accessory cable. And there’s an extra touch of […]

Printer marketing has a language all its own, and we don’t mean PCL or PostScript. Take MFP, for example; it usually stands for “multifunction printer” or “multifunction peripheral,” although HP’s spec sheet for the Color LaserJet CM1017 modestly translates the acronym as “multi-function product.” Fair enough, but what’s the difference between an MFP and an […]

You’ve heard the anecdote about how, if automotive technology had progressed as quickly as PC design over the past decade or two, we’d be driving cars that cost $50 and got 2,000 miles per gallon and so on. But that’s nothing. If cars had kept up with inkjet printers lately, Fords and Toyotas would cruise […]

We review half a dozen mice a year, and swapping the previous one for the next is never a big deal (although uninstalling and weeding the former out of the Registry is). Usually we adjust our grip by a few millimeters, practice clicking the buttons a few times, and are accustomed to the new rodent […]

Cordless keyboard and mouse bundles are nothing new. By our count, arch-rivals Logitech and Microsoft offer more than 20 of them, differentiated mostly by details such as LED- versus laser-based optical mice or radio-frequency versus Bluetooth wireless technology. But the advent of Windows Vista gives manufacturers an excuse to polish their product lines, hinting that […]

New Fujifilm Cameras Fujifilm USA has made three additions to its FinePix line of digital cameras, offering its advanced Super CCD sensor in two value-priced models plus a compact camera built to excel in low-light environments. The FinePix F40fd ($299) combines 8-megapixel (3,296 by 2,472) resolution with a Picture Stabilization mode that reduces blur effects […]

Dell’s OptiPlex 745, the top of the company’s business PC line, pairs Intel’s Q965 chipset with your choice of Celeron, Pentium D or cutting-edge Core 2 Duo processors. Scheduled for a 15-month life cycle, the 745 is available in four sizes: a conventional mini-tower, the desktop chassis of our review unit, a small form factor […]

It’s too big to carry to be portable and it doesn’t run on battery power, but otherwise the HP Photosmart D7360 can compete with those miniature inkjets that let you print 4- by 6-inch glossies of your digital-camera images as quickly as we used to watch Polaroid pictures develop. No, the D7360 doesn’t live up […]

Logitech doesn’t beat around the bush when touting its new top-of-the-line MX Revolution: Right there on its elegant, near-impenetrable packaging it says, “The world’s most advanced mouse.” (Pause for skeptics to say, “For $100, it had better be.”) But in this case, while Logitech may be exaggerating a bit, it isn’t lying: Two years in […]

You young whippersnappers won’t remember, but back in the CRT days anything bigger than a 15- or at most 17-inch monitor was a big deal. Having a 20-inch-diagonal display on your desk was a status symbol reserved for graphics professionals with big budgets (even though its actual viewable measurement was something under 19 inches). Hoisting […]

Just because a computer is about the size of a ream of paper doesn’t make it a paper tiger. Small-form-factor PCs are nothing new. While full-sized tower cases live on in servers and exotically equipped game machines, consumer desktops moved to mini-tower chassis long ago, with both business and retail PC suppliers nowadays offering even […]

Outdoor Life: Panasonic Puts 3G Wireless Into Rugged NotebooksPanasonic’s Toughbook notebooks aren’t designed for the cushy indoor life of the average commuter notebooks or even the stressful demands of a road warrior. Toughbooks, the marines of the notebook world, are designed to handle duty in hot spots such as construction sites, field-service calls and the […]