Author Archives: Eric Lai

HP plans to introduce a new business desktop PC that comes with a solid-state disk drive (SSD) to speed up Windows 7 and other applications. Continue reading →

Boston-Power says sales of its long-life Lithium-Ion batteries are ramping up as Hewlett-Packard Co. makes them available for more and more PC models under its exclusive arrangement with the startup. Continue reading →

An Alaskan company is attracting attention for a $3,000 laptop it plans to build that will apparently be the first to sport two 15.4-inch LCD screens. Continue reading →

Intel may still hold bragging rights for having the fastest desktop processors on the market, but AMD believes its newest chips’ value for money will prove more popular in these tough economic times. Continue reading →

Windows 7 may loom, but Nvidia Inc. is bucking the trend, releasing a second member of its ION graphics platform targeted at netbook and net-top PCs running Windows XP. Continue reading →

A new antitrust climate in Washington under the Obama administration, as well as fresh legal scholarship that overturns the assumptions held by regulatory officials in the past eight years, could increase scrutiny of Intel and other companies with mark… Continue reading →

The battery life of laptops is far less than that cited in an industry standard and one critic of the benchmark, Advanced Micro Devices, is calling for change. Continue reading →

Microsoft has released the beta of a free application that helps users determine whether their PC is powerful enough to run the upcoming Windows 7 operating system. Continue reading →

The Radeon HD 4770 graphics processor from ATI Technologies that launched earlier this week is receiving plaudits for incorporating cutting-edge technology at a ground-breaking price. Continue reading →

AMD on Thursday introduced the latest member of its Phenom II X4 family of high-performance quad-core CPUs, which the No. 2 chip maker said it had run as fast as 7 GHz in extreme overclocking tests. Continue reading →