Personal Computers

Screen size is a laptop’s defining characteristic, and a major consideration when shopping around. Can you get a bigger display and still retain portability? The creators of the TriMax Pro aim to provide a bigger-screen experience in a still-portable package.

Existing processors in PCs, smartphones and other devices can be supercharged for enormous power and efficiency gains, according to UC Riverside. With no changes to hardware, this new approach to the software squeezes extra juice out of your system.

Smartphones versus personal computers. One tends to be used more for ‘play,’ while the other is favored for work. A new study has found that the way we process deceptive online information very much depends on the device we’re using to view it.

Working remotely, it's not easy to move from a home desk when you require two screens. The CrowView display wants to change that, with its 'plug and play' functionality and easy attachment letting you work anywhere, even from a sun lounge by the beach.

Lighting up Kickstarter this week is the Geminos X, a fresh and very tidy approach to multi-screen monitor setups. Two 24-inch monitors unfold vertically on an ergonomic stand, with a built-in webcam, a sound system, and a single cable to your PC.

Not everybody needs powerful computers – mini PCs can be great for work, media centers, or some modest gaming. Minisforum is now unveiling the EliteMini H31G, a small PC with a dedicated GPU that should let it run some more heavy-duty games.

The ThinkPad X1 Fold unveiled at CES and set to go on sale this year looks almost identical to the prototype Lenovo teased last May and is designed to combine the power and usability of a laptop with the portability of a smartphone.

The Apple-1, launched in July 1976, was the computer that helped propel a two-man business operating from a suburban garage into the world's most valuable company a short 35 years later. This month one of the few remaining Apple-1 operating manuals hits the auction block in Boston.

A cybernetic pioneer in the form of a fully functional "Byte Shop"-style Apple I computer is going on the block at RR Auction. One of the most significant early personal computers of the 1970s, the restored original Apple I board with its components and accessories is estimated to fetch US$300,000.

A 1976 Apple 1 motherboard was sold for US$905,000 at auction, making it the most expensive Apple computer ever sold. It is in working condition and complete with a vintage keyboard and Sanyo monitor. It leads a range of scientific relics sold at last week's History of Science auction in New York.

With the rate of technological advancement sometimes obscuring the true worth of some of our landmark innovations, sales like the upcoming History of Science auction at Bonhams New York could provide fine opportunities for medium-term investments in rare collectibles.

The Silent Power PC ditches noisy electric fans in favor of an open-air metal foam heatsink with an enormous surface area that passively cools the PC through the microcirculation of air through the foam.