Switching to a new operating system can seem overwhelming or scary, but the joy of learning something new is worth the effort. Let’s take a look at some of the important keyboard shortcuts that work similarly on both Linux and Windows. Although Windows and Linux are inherently different, you can still use most of the … Read more
If there’s one laptop marketing term you’re going to see a lot this year, it’s “hybrid work.” With remote work moving away from the traditional office locations of more businesses to hotels and hot-desking, PC makers are designing laptops to accommodate the needs of work-anywhere professionals. For example, HP’s new Elite Dragonfly G3 laptop, announced … Read more
We are going to see some PCs – laptops and desktops – this year and beyond, all aimed at people who started working from home during the pandemic and are not going to office full time or at all. It’s a change that will benefit everyone, no matter where you’re working from, as it forces … Read more
Acer’s Swift X laptop is a thin and lightweight laptop designed for basic content creation as well as routine day-to-day tasks. Because it’s slim and weighs just 3.1 pounds (1.4 kg), you might not think it’s powerful enough to cut together YouTube videos or edit photos, but under the hood of the 2021 model there’s … Read more
I’ve seen several PC makers try to squeeze a second display into laptops over the years at CES. But Asus and Lenovo are the only companies still experimenting with the idea and, for the most part, are succeeding. Asus is at CES 2022 with its latest dual-screen ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 gaming laptop, which puts … Read more
Instagram has started testing changes to the way you view your feed, including a return to the old chronological format. Under the new system, users will be able to switch between three different types of feed on their home screen, called Home, Favorites and Following, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri tweeted on Wednesday. Home is the … Read more
The Mac Mini is a versatile desktop that benefits from the M1 upgrade. Featuring an 8-core CPU and GPU, it achieves 3x faster CPU performance and up to 6x faster graphics than its predecessor. It also has a 16-core neural engine that is up to 15 times faster for machine learning. At 512GB of storage, … Read more
Virtual reality is set to launch in series production cars this summer, starting with Audi sedans and SUVs. Holoride announced Saturday at the SXSW tech, music and film conference in Austin that its headset-based virtual-reality entertainment system will debut in June in some Audi models with the latest MIB3 software. The announcement is a milestone … Read more
A few weeks ago I got a call from my good friend Ed Dowd at Matoon Chamber, warning me that his column for the week might be a bit “different” in content. When I protested, coughing softly on the phone and weakly saying I’d be sick all week, and to take it easy with heavy … Read more
In the first few years of cloud computing, cost savings were the driving force behind cloud adoption. Nowadays, however, businesses are facing spiraling cloud costs. There’s even a term for the emerging process to tackle this: “FinOps.” Organizations continue to waste significant cloud spending, according to Flexera’s recently released 2022 State of the Cloud report, … Read more