Eric Grevstad

Who says color ink-jets will make monochrome laser printers obsolete? Not small offices and workgroups, who continue to churn out mostly text documents. Not Samsung and Lexmark, who’ve found success with under-$250 black-and-white bargains. And not Hewlett-Packard, who’s joining the fray with the new LaserJet 1000, a personal laser priced at $249. Available October 1, […]

You can still find the Select 1400, a desktop using AMD’s 1.4GHz Athlon processor and SDRAM, on Gateway‘s Web site. But the cow-spotted computer company has quietly dropped AMD processors from its updated home and business desktop menu. The previous Gateway Essential, Select, and Performance models have been replaced by the Gateway 300 series, featuring […]

Impatient for Windows XP? So is Hewlett-Packard Co.: Though Microsoft’s new operating system doesn’t officially debut until October 25, HP’s phone banks and retail-store kiosks are now taking orders for desktop and notebook computers with Win XP, some of which will reach retail shelves and be available from the company’s online store as early as […]

As expected, Intel Corp. has unveiled its Intel 845 chipset for Pentium 4-based desktop PCs using PC133 SDRAM memory technology. PC vendors are rushing to offer systems using the new chipset, betting that a lower purchase price will more than offset the performance hit caused by pairing the Pentium 4 with SDRAM instead of its […]

Intel Corp. is preaching to the choir at its annual Intel Developer Forum in San Jose. Today, executive vice president Paul Otellini followed yesterday’s introduction of the 2GHz Pentium 4 processor by demonstrating a laboratory-prototype Pentium 4 running at 3.5GHz, while stating that the P4 microarchitecture is expected to scale to 10GHz during its lifetime. […]

What’s your pleasure — pocket-size photographic convenience or ultra-high-resolution image quality? The newest additions to Sony Electronics‘ digital imaging lineup offer both. Taking the pocket-size products first, two new Cyber-shot digital still cameras are Sony’s smallest to date — even slimmer than the popular DSC-P1. The Cyber-shot DSC-P5 (about $600) features a two-step barrel lens […]

If you’re in a hurry to burn digital images, video, or “original music” (interesting that Sony inserts the qualifying adjective, eh?) onto CD, Sony Electronics answers your need for speed with four fast new CD-RW drives. The company’s latest rewritable drives boast 24X write speed (as well as 10X rewrite and 40X playback), tamed by […]

Intel Corp. has officially unveiled its long-awaited, 0.13-micron Pentium III mobile processor (a.k.a. “Tualatin”), and notebook vendors ranging from Dell and Compaq to Sony and IBM are rushing to ship new laptops featuring the top-of-the-line 1.13GHz CPU — which Intel says can deliver 40 percent longer battery life, 25 percent higher performance with office productivity […]

Though stopping short of splitting the company, Palm Inc. has announced it will separate its operating system and handheld PC businesses, forming a wholly owned subsidiary — the Platform Solutions Group — to develop the Palm OS and license it to PDA vendors — currently including Handspring, Sony, and HandEra as well as Palm — […]

Call it writing on the wall, or on the screen: Tokyo-based Hitachi Ltd. announced today that it’s decided to get out of the CRT monitor business and “concentrate resources on flat panel displays, particularly TFT LCDs.” By the end of 2001, the company says, it will halt production of conventional monitors at its plants in […]

Whether you’re a mobile professional catching a flight or a home PC user hoping to surf from the back porch, Gateway Inc. has a new notebook for you. The cow-spotted company’s slimline Solo 3450 and entry-level Solo 1200 start at $2,199 and $999, respectively. The Solo 3450 weighs just 3 pounds and is just 0.8 […]

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