Eric Grevstad

Here’s something new: Logitech has paired its fanciest flagship mouse with a keyboard designed to reduce mouse usage. Along the way, it’s taken the concept of two-way communication between PC and input device to new heights. Logitech’s Cordless Desktop MX5000 Laser ($150) bundles a Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse with a thumb-sized transceiver that plugs […]

If you’re in the market for a good looking, versatile, 19-inch flat-panel display, you won’t have to go much further than Samsung’s practically acrobatic Syncmaster 970P, which lists for $549. You will, however, have to pay about a $100 more than the going rate for a 19-inch desktop LCD. But the Samsung offers a lot […]

You’ve seen desktop-replacement notebooks with bright, wide screens and roomy, comfortable keyboards — but most of them are eight- or nine-pound bruisers that defy portability and have a battery life that’s so anemic you can’t stray far from an electrical outlet.

Reducing a notebook PC’s weight is always a good thing. Reducing its size is not. Similarly, when we took a ruler to the LifeBook’s downsized keyboard, we found the home-row span was roughly 85 percent as wide as our desktop machine’s. The Libretto’s is just under 75 percent desktop size, but the difference makes all […]

The HP Photosmart 3310 is almost the greatest multifunction peripheral we’ve ever seen. We were practically grinning during our first hours with the color inkjet printer/copier/scanner/fax, enjoying its straightforward control panel and almost startlingly above-average print quality — whether making a routine copy of a color page or shrinking it to a razor-sharp 4- by […]

While desktop PCs are wonderfully affordable these days; desktop-replacement portables are somewhat less so. A jumbo 17-inch-diagonal widescreen laptop with respectable specs — 512MB of memory, an 80GB hard disk, a DVD burner and Wi-Fi — is likely to cost you something between $1,500 and $1,900 from the likes of Dell, Toshiba, or Fujitsu, with […]

Even with almost a quarter-century of experience, we still feel fear and loathing for one computing chore: printing an envelope. Even the smoothest, most easy-going printers on earth turn into snagging and skewing vandals when fed envelopes instead of letterheads. Switching between portrait- and landscape-mode word processing templates is a portrait of frustration. If the […]

Sitting at Starbucks gets expensive. Taking your laptop to work by the hotel pool, only to learn that you must stay in your room is a pain. In short, the Wi-Fi wireless e-mail and Internet access that seemed so wonderful just a year or two ago now gets taken for granted — and grumbled about […]

Offering four different desktop chassis designs, Dell makes it easy for small business owners to pick the computer size that’s “just right” for their needs. The 12.4- by 13.4- by 3.6-inch OptiPlex GX620 is the second-smallest option, and you can attaché it to the back of a Dell-supplied flat-screen display to shrink the PC’s desktop […]

Not every small business can afford a mobile workforce, and while it’s handy to do a quick Web search or check browser-based e-mail at a library, Internet café, or client’s office, a public PC doesn’t have your familiar desktop and data files on it. It may not even have the applications needed to read and […]

Whether you’re snapping photos for your next eBay auction, shooting a five-bedroom, three-bath split level for a real estate Web site or documenting a client’s collection of antique coins, you want the photos to look as professional as possible. That can be tough to do if you’re hands are anything less than steady. Happily, many […]

Automakers call them fleet sales — high-volume, low-profit-margin purchases of scores of sedans by rent-a-car companies or government agencies. PC manufacturers’ equivalent of the Hertz Taurus or Avis Impala is the enterprise desktop: your average office worker’s mini-tower with adequate power for PowerPoint and Excel, a motherboard-mounted graphics chip with no ambition to play 3D […]