Computers
Computers
Hate Windows 8? Microsoft replacing it with Windows 9
ADAM TURNER Microsoft looks set to throw in the towel, with plans to replace the oft-maligned Windows 8.
Computers
HP promotes Windows 7 PCs
Salvador Rodriguez Hewlett-Packard is heavily promoting its Windows 7 PCs over those that run Windows 8, the newer but far less popular version of Microsoft's operating system.
Computers
Solid state hard drives win the race
IMAGING Do you ever feel you're frittering away your life waiting for the computer to do something?
Computers
Windows 9 slated for 2015 as Windows 8 'tanking'
Stan Schroeder The next version of Windows is slated to arrive by April 2015 as the current version, Windows 8, is "tanking", according to a report.
CES
CES 2014: is eye-tracking the future PC mouse?
BEN GRUBB Could gaze be the way we interact with our computers in the future?
Tech
Android sales to pass 1 billion in 2014
Paul Sandle The number of Android smartphones and tablets shipped will break the 1 billion barrier this year, according to Gartner.
Computers
10% of desktop PCs now run Windows 8
Pete Pachal Microsoft Windows 8 is slowly but steadily spreading to more of the world's PCs, though its predecessor Windows 7 is still the version of choice for most users.
Computers
Chromebook sales up sharply in 2013
Salvador Rodriguez While Apple and Microsoft's share of laptops sold in the US decreased in 2013, Google dramatically increased its portion of sales.
Computers
Apple Mac Pro review: a sleek computer with power inside
Molly Wood The Mac Pro is daring, extravagant and elite - or maybe it's just for the elite.
Review
Google Chromebooks do the simple things well
Paddy Wood Google's Chromebooks are no-frills laptops. They're light, simple, fast and cheap.
Privacy
Researchers activate Apple iSight webcams without warning light
Ashkan Soltani, Timothy B. Lee If a laptop has a built-in camera, then someone can access it to spy on the user at any time, and the user would never know.
Computers
LG unveils Chromebase, an all-in-one Google Chrome OS desktop PC
Salvador Rodriguez The new LG Chromebase is the first Chrome OS desktop PC with a built-in monitor.
Computers
New menu for custom-built PC connoisseurs
BLEEDING EDGE Building your own PC has become even better value, as specialised components filter down to the mainstream.
Computers
Windows 8 a certifiable flop
Will Oremus "You'll Hate Windows 8," my former colleague Farhad Manjoo predicted last June. He was right.
Overheating reports suspend HP, Google Chromebook 11 sales
Aaron Ricadela and Brian Womack Google and HP halt sales of the Chromebook 11 laptop after some users reported overheating power supplies.
Computers
Limelight for Apple's MacBook Pro
MACMAN As iPads continue their invasion, desktop PC sales are assuming the trajectory of a brick.
Computers
Dell offers to fix laptops that smell like cat pee
Salvador Rodriguez Everyone knows the internet is all about cats, but Dell may have taken that too literally with one of its new computers.
