So, all this storage talk has gotten you excited about upgrading your laptop’s crappy old 120GB drive? It’s about time, dammit. Traditional hard drive have never been cheaper, and the advent of flash-memory based SSDs—that’s solid-state drives—delivers a storage upgrade path that actually deliver solid, real-world benefits that you’ll …

It’s official: Microsoft got it right this time. After the mistake that was Vista, Windows 7 was greeted like the second coming, and it many ways it really was better than its predecessor: less annoying, faster, smoother, more compatible with various pieces of hardware and software. Initial sales numbers and…

HP promised us a mobile workstation refresh in February, and sure enough, today we are staring down the retail pages for its quartet of upgraded business laptops. The new top of the line EliteBook models come in 14- (8440p/w) and 15.6-inch (8540p/w) varieties, with the w-appended models sporting appropriately beefed …

Wondering about HP’s TM2 tablet we heard about back in September ? Read on and sate thy curiosity, as eCost seems to have updated their database a bit early, spoiling HP’s fun and, if this is accurate, confirming the detailed specs of the TM2-1070US. It’s packing a 1.3GHz Core 2 Duo processor behind …

If you got a new Windows 7 laptop for Christmas, you are truly in luck . But here are 10 things you need to get the most out of it. 1. Take a Spin Around the New Interface : Still glassy, glossy and damn near glittery, the Windows 7 interface is actually a major progression for Microsoft…

Windows 7 is doing well, which gives the number crunching crowd an opportunity to compare it with Mac OS X – if only for a moment. According to Internet metrics company Net Applications, Windows 7 last weekend powered (on average) 5.07% of PCs, while in that week Mac OS X (in all …

Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has never been too modest about Microsoft’s sales numbers; in fact, throughout the Vista era he insisted that the news OS is doing great, selling better than any other Microsoft OS in history. Now, he claims that Windows 7 is selling even better , which we’re inclined to…

Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer was on hand for the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting in Washington, and news of Windows 7 sales came up right away. While delivering the opening remarks, Ballmer said that Microsoft has sold twice as many copies of Win 7 as any previous OS in a comparable time frame. Though no actual…

While it hasn’t exactly been a detriment to their widespread adoption, RFID tags have proven to be relatively easy to exploit in a number of cases . Some researchers at the University of Arkansas say they’ve now found a novel way to change that, however, with a new method that effectively amounts to a …

MSI is on a roll with its Wind Top line of all-in-one machines, the AE2220 being the latest and, for the moment at least, the greatest. Its 21.5-inch screen (curiously .1” smaller than when originally announced ) supports multitouch, backed by Windows 7 Home Premium to ensure you’ll never have a completely…