Pentium II Notebooks
If the irresistible temptation in the computer world is to go for the latest and greatest, here's some good news: The Intel Pentium II processor, almost retro by desktop PC standards, is still going strong for portable computers.
Flat-panel displays stand by, waiting for their prices to drop
You've read about flat-panel displays and maybe seen one or two in a plush office or at a computer trade show. Are the streamlined, LCD devices ready to take the place of the high-resolution CRTs that take up so much desktop real estate? Maybe someday, but there's more to that question than meets the eye.
SOMETIMES IT PAYS TO SPEND BIG
Next to a CPU, a monitor is probably the most important component of any computer system you buy. After all, if you cannot see what you're working on, all the power, speed and storage capacity of a high-end PC is wasted. And for engineering, computer-aided design and manufacturing, graphics or desktop publishing tasks, high-resolution 21-inch or larger displays are essential.
THE BOTTOM LINE
First the anthrax vaccine, now citrullus vulgaris. But if truth be known, it was the other way around.
ONLINE BUYING
I would rather eat nails than talk to a salesperson. Granted, their job is to make the sale. I wish more of them realized that to do so, they must give potential buyers all the information they want about a product and then tell them immediately what it costs.
INS employee: Net privatization is a risky venture
You might not be interested in the privatization of the Internet'but Internet privatizers are interested in you. Even now, Internet privateers are watching you, the potentially lucrative market of Web surfers.
The Ins and Outs of Upgrading
To upgrade, or not to upgrade? That is the question.
Free Stuff
Take it with you. Carry a palmtop computer and you have the world in your hands'or so it can seem. Some shareware expands a palm's capabilities in a lot of useful ways, from keeping track of your money to performing quick calculations to sending a fax. You can even use your palm computer to change channels.
PC Card and dual-function NICs emerge from 10/100 product mix
Two fascinating new trends have evolved since GCN/Shopper last looked at 10/100 network interface cards less than a year ago.'' Leading NIC manufacturers are rapidly introducing PC Card NICs into their families of 10/100 products. And a relatively new category of dual-speed, dual-function products that add 56-Kbps modem functionality to the mix is beginning to emerge.
Move To Fast Ethernet - In The NIC Of Time
Dollar for dollar and pound for pound, dual-speed, 10/100-Mbps Ethernet adapters probably represent the best networking investment you'll ever make. Standard 10-Mbps Ethernet is clearly the most popular network architecture in the world, with more than 100 million installed nodes around the globe. But most organizations are anxious to move up to Fast Ethernet as they add new users and high-bandwidth graphical and Internet applications to their daily workloads.
GET UP TO SPEED
Analog modems are going as fast as they can go. Experts say technical limitations make it difficult to squeeze much more speed from the little beeping, buzzing boxes. The technology's current state-of-the-art speed'56 Kbps'appears to be its high-water mark.
With this phone, you can tap your PC's database
The Meridian 9617 USB on my desk has all the bells and whistles of any office phone and one extra feature: It has a Universal Serial Bus cable that connects to my PC.
USB: This Bus Is Going Places
If you haven't yet boarded the Universal Serial Bus bandwagon, you will want to find out where it's going. It's a technology that lives up to its claims and fills a growing need for a way to add peripherals to a system.
VR IS THE REAL DEAL
Virtual reality has long been a technology without a home, unless that home was a supercomputer or, at the least, a high-end mainframe. The many benefits of VR were filed away in most people's minds with rocket cars, 'Star Trek' and cool, futuristic and unattainable worlds.
Visio creates common drawings for artistically challenged users
There is a place for objectivity in technical journalism, but I cannot be objective when writing about drawing applications. Users don't consider just features and price when choosing them; they buy for the feel of them. For me, the drawing system of choice is Visio Corp.'s Visio Standard, no question.
DRAW IT ALL
Users don't ask much from computer-aided drawing software. Just everything.
Search for processing-power grail means more functionality in chips
While the Wintel world waits for the highly anticipated 64-bit Merced microprocessor to appear sometime in the next year, RISC workstation vendors are not sitting still.
Risc Workstations Hold The High Ground
In the technical workstation market, performance rules. Whether you're a medical researcher, aerospace design engineer, military commander running a battle simulation or a microchip designer, you want systems that are fleet enough and powerful enough to minimize your wait for large data sets to load or for complex 3-D images to draw on-screen.
PERSPECTIVES
One of the most difficult aspects about the freshman year of college is accepting the responsibilities of freedom.
FROM THE EDITOR
It was only a couple of years ago that the people who decide what a supercomputer is abandoned defining them in terms of millions of instructions per second or other speeds 'n' feeds. Now, a supercomputer is defined as the fastest computer available.
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