PCs, Laptops, and Notebooks


Recent PCs, Laptops, and Notebooks Articles

Handling Your Handheld

By Ron Feemster |  Mar 1, 2001

Our CEOs sample Web sites that sell software for personal digital assistants. Here's what they found, what they liked, and what they found lacking.  Read more

Things We Love: A Nightlight for Laptops

By Anne Stuart |  Mar 1, 2001

A review of the Kensington FlyLight -- a nightlight for your laptop.  Read more

It Slices! It Dices! It Doesn't Do Either Very Well!

By Mary Roach |  Mar 1, 2001

Thinking about jumping on the newest gadget bandwagon and buying a 3-in-1 cell phone, PDA, and wireless email? Perhaps you should read this review first.  Read more

Cutting the Cord

By Anne Stuart |  Mar 1, 2001

Wireless workplaces save time and money, and promote mobility -- but, as companies like WebLinc are finding out, they can create new headaches as well.  Read more

Bulletin Board

By Inc. staff |  Nov 1, 2000

A look at various tech trends, including electronic signature software programs, professional services automation, and high-wired limos.  Read more

MEMS the Word

By Gerard J. Holzmann |  Nov 1, 2000

MEMS, which is short for micro-electro-mechanical systems, may be almost too small to see, but they could play a big role in the future.  Read more

Things We Love: CD-ROM Business Cards

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Nov 1, 2000

Pat O'Neill's monthly mailings to prospective new accounts were getting a little stale. Her solution: CD-ROM business cards. First she filmed a thr...  Read more

Vera Goes Digital

By Mary Roach |  Nov 1, 2000

Our new road warrior, Mary Roach, test-drives the latest in digital personal assistants. The bottom line: Don't fire your secretary yet.  Read more

Cable Cutter

By Roger Fillion |  Nov 1, 2000

If Bluetooth flies, we'll all be wired without wires.  Read more

CEO Gear Guide

By Anne Stuart |  Nov 1, 2000

If you're shopping for high-tech gear this holiday season, you're in luck: Executive gadgets keep getting more powerful and more portable.  Read more

Use Two Monitors at Once

By Cheryl Currid |  Oct 10, 2000

Desktop real estate - the amount of monitor screen space you have - comes at a premium these days. As people use more applications, the standard 15- or 17...  Read more

Error of Margin

By Samuel Fromartz |  Oct 1, 2000

The founder of EBC Computers, from the 2000 Inc. 500, knew he could continue to eke a profit out of selling commodity computer parts, but instead he...  Read more

Tomorrow's Workforce

By Samuel Fromartz |  Sep 1, 2000

How one inner-city program is trying to give kids the skills they need -- and the ones you need, too.  Read more

This Is Rocket Science

By David H. Freedman |  Jul 1, 2000

Paul Moller may have been working on his flying car for nearly four decades, but he's no crackpot. His saga is a road map of how to keep a dream moving ahead...  Read more

Software to Watch over Me

By Mike Hofman |  Jul 1, 2000

What if you could mine your employees' e-mail for useful information? You can, thanks to Tacit Knowledge Systems. But will visions of Big Brother watching ov...  Read more

Six Days of Insight

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jun 1, 2000

I Inc. Technology /I 's Road Warrior test-drives the Honda Insight, a hybrid car that uses both gas and electricity, to see ...  Read more

Things We Love: Electronic Whiteboards

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Jun 1, 2000

As everybody knows, whiteboards are an ephemeral medium. (Do the words Do Not Erase mean anything to you?) And clients can't take them off-site a...  Read more

Top Sites for Tech Buying

By Ned Snell |  Jun 1, 2000

A panel of entrepreneurs searches for the best online spots to shop for computers, peripherals, and networking hardware.  Read more

Beauty and the Best

By Anne Stuart |  Jun 1, 2000

Marla Malcolm, a "clicks and bricks" CEO, outfits her fast-growing online and offline business. Her experience has generated useful lessons for start-ups of ...  Read more

A Soloist's Blueprint

By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Jun 1, 2000

An architect relies on good old-fashioned word of mouth to outfit his high-tech office in the woods.  Read more

G Is for Guts

By Steven Berglas |  May 1, 2000

The author argues that Bill Gates should get more respect for showing his true entrepreneurial colors by turning Microsoft operations over to Steve Ballmer a...  Read more

When Your Host Says " No!"

By Bob Kranker |  May 1, 2000

Plan all you want for your Web site. Do the best job you can. But once you've built a great site and it's ready to publish, you may find the world caving ...  Read more

Should I upgrade my office PCs to Windows Millennium Edition instead of Windows 2000?

By Jennifer LeClaire |  May 1, 2000

Information Technology mentor Glenn Weadock responds: You can think about Windows Millennium Edition, aka "Windows Me," as "Windows ...  Read more

Robo Pop

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Mar 1, 2000

I Inc. Technology /I 's Road Warrior test-drives a new personal robot in hopes it will simplify his hectic life. However, he...  Read more

P.C. PCs

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Mar 1, 2000

They sat in a corner, gathering dust: monitors, printers, and central processing units, a couple dozen of them. Cindy Brethauer, network administrator for...  Read more

To Catch a Thief

By Ilan Mochari |  Mar 1, 2000

"Pimps, gangbangers, drug dealers, and prostitutes," says Bill Higginson, CEO of $15-million IMC Property Management, when asked about his biggest busines...  Read more

Things We Love: A Mouse that Fits Your Lifestyle

By Ilan Mochari |  Mar 1, 2000

His friends call him "I.G.," but those aren't the only initials used by Indrajit Ghosh, founder of Atlas Communications, a network-engineering consultancy...  Read more

Cost Cutting: Your Old PCs for the New World's Needy

By Karen E. Carney |  Sep 1, 1994

A look at a charity that collects used computers, repairs them, and sends them to the needy, at home and aboard.  Read more

Travel Pointers in a Laptop

By Robert A. Mamis |  Jan 1, 1993

Software provides business travelers with digitized maps of 30 U.S. cities.  Read more

It May Pay to Lease Your Desktops

By Robert A. Mamis |  Jul 1, 1992

A look at long-term computer leasing deals offered by six mail-order houses.  Read more

Breakthrough in Computer Design

By Joshua Hyatt |  Aug 1, 1985

A major departure in computer design could rekindle entrepreneurship in the industry.  Read more

A Winning Combination for the Personal Computer

Feb 1, 1983

Mitch Kapor of Lotus discusses the advent of personal computing in the business world  Read more

An Apple On Every Desk

By Steve Ditlea |  Oct 1, 1981

How Apple Computer has inaugurated the workplace of the future  Read more

Foiling Laptop Larceny Fast

By Robert A. Mamis

Used-computer brokerages have compiled lists of stolen PCs, reuniting owners with equipment and reassuring buyers.  Read more

Do You Know Where Your Laptop Is?

By Sarah Schafer

A travel-safety expert explains how to keep your laptop safe when you are on the road.  Read more