Eric Grevstad

 This chic, Wi-Fi-enabled handheld ($749 as tested) is targeted at students, but HardwareCentral.com’s Eric Grevstad thinks its too good to be just for kids. Talk to HP executives, and they’ll tell you that the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC introduced today targets the educational market. Ask about its place in the mainstream laptop segment, and they’ll […]

LAS VEGAS — Donny and Marie Osmond aren’t playing Vegas until this summer, but Intel Corp. President and CEO Paul Otellini’s Monday keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show was a little bit country and a little bit rock ‘n’ roll. The country was China, as seen through Intel’s vision of a new “proactive, predictive, […]

Excuse us for a sec, OK? We’ll start the review momentarily but we just need to switch into our Professional PC Critic Veteran Reviewer Voice: Omigod! That is like the cutest thing EVER! Lemme see, lemme see! Oh, I so have to get one of these RIGHT NOW! Only two pounds? Could you DIE? $400? […]

Reporter’s Notebook: LAS VEGAS — NFL playoffs aside, the usual game of pick-the-winner didn’t play in Las Vegas last week. No single product or announcement dominated the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, aside from Microsoft beating the drum for Windows Vista, days before the operating system’s official retail release. Instead, PC and peripheral vendors’ exhibits were […]

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.

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 high-performance PC market with the launch of its Athlon 64 processor, but this week Intel Corp. is enjoying the spotlight — and telling PC manufacturers and users […]

NVIDIA isn’t the only PC graphics vendor to offer high-end workstation versions of its 3D accelerator cards, but the Santa Clara-based graphics chip maker Tuesday took the wraps off a new series with a very broad reach. The company’s new Quadro FX 3000 and 3000G go way beyond everyday computer-aided design (CAD) or digital content […]

Blazing back after the shock of archrival ATI’s record-setting Radeon 9700 and 9800 Pro and the flop of its own GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, Nvidia Corp. unveiled the GeForce FX 5900 and 5900 Ultra, reclaiming the title of world’s fastest 3D graphics processing unit (GPU) for advanced DirectX 9.0 games like Id Software’s forthcoming Doom […]

When you hear the phrase, “Curves that captivate,” you probably don’t think immediately of a notebook PC. But that’s what Sony Electronics‘ Web site promises for the new Vaio Z series portables — Sony’s first built around Intel’s new Centrino bundle of a battery-thrifty chipset, Pro/Wireless 2100 WiFi (11Mbps 802.11b) wireless network adapter, and Pentium […]

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 new chipset platform and faster system bus — 800MHz instead of the previous 533MHz (technically, quad-pumped 200MHz instead of 133MHz). Using dual-channel DDR400 system memory, the Intel 875P […]

Company To Pursue Both WiFi OEMs and Current Notebook PC Partners While high-end laptop PCs or deep-pocketed commercial users will move to faster 802.11a and 802.11g wireless networking by 2004, AMD predicts, today’s 802.11b WiFi technology will soon be a staple of everything from PDAs and cell phones to car-dashboard information systems — and an […]

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 chipsets that make them possible — silicon that supports faster memory as well as the Hyper-Threading Technology that will debut in the 3.06GHz Pentium 4 processor shipping later […]