At the end of May, Craig Barrett, the chairman and former CEO of Intel and avid horseman, will ride off into the sunset.
One will live. One will die. You make the choice.
it boasts a cinema-quality wide screen and enough power to support graphics-heavy games, it's probably too heavy to carry to the office every day. We can't change that, but we can recommend two top-shelf $1,700 machines that give you one advantage without shortchanging you on the other: a Dell that's as light as a bunch of bananas but performs well, and a powerful HP that fits under your arm. --WILSON ROTHMAN ...
When it comes to laptops, there's a notorious trade-off between performance and mobility. If it's lightweight and portable, it's probably also light on hard-drive capacity and processing power. If ...
AS BACK-TO-SCHOOL shopping season approaches, it's multiple-choice quiz time: What do tech-hungry students really need? Sharpen your pencils. (Kids, a pencil is a handheld, analog writing device ty...
For many years, I've owned six mutual funds from two different major fund companies. I think they're still the solid funds I selected way back when. But how can I be sure I continue to hold them because they're good choices and not just because I've become emotionally attached?
The latest chapter of "Doom," the quintessential action title in computer gaming, is more evolutionary than revolutionary.
Buying the latest technology can be confusing. But keep in mind the points below as you shop.
The economy recaptures Wall Street's attention at the start of the trading week Monday, with the key ISM manufacturing report due shortly after the markets open.
PALO ALTO, Calif. -(Dow Jones)- Intel Corp. (INTC) will unveil its newest Pentium chip Monday, a processor code named Prescott that was delayed from late last year.
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Bright Move Running off juice from your laptop's battery, this portable lamp lets you work on a darkened plane or in a dimly lit hotel room. Kensington FlyLight USB Notebook Light: $23; www.kensing...
One of the most indispensible tools of campus life is the cellphone, and I have two recommendations: the T-Mobile color Sidekick phone/PDA/web browser and e-mail device ($300) and the Nokia 3650 (r...
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Ahhh, spring. It's the time of year when the birds warble sweetly, the sun smiles warmly, and the FedEx delivery person gets really, really cranky because of all the new gadgets arriving at the FOR...
Actually, "Centrino Inside" is the catch phrase that you'll hear ad nauseam starting later this month. What the heck is a Centrino? It's a major departure from earlier mobile microprocessor designs...
It may be the most sophisticated factory ever built. In a cavernous building the size of several football fields, rows of multimillion-dollar machines loom over white-suited workers. Air scrubbed f...
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As we bid adieu to 2002--and not a moment too soon!--let's pause to appreciate the products that brightened an otherwise dull year in personal technology. How tedious was 2002? My favorite new prod...
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Here's our grade-A supply list -- some of it practical, some extravagant -- for kids heading off to start their new life as college students.
1 The tunes Napster's demise hasn't halted student demand for digital music. The latest generation of portable MP3 players just holds more of it. Leading the way has been Apple's elegant little iPo...
The headlong rush of semiconductor miniaturization, it seems, waits for no one. Just because chipmakers are staring at woefully thin order books doesn't mean they can stop following Moore's law, th...
Desktop computers are underrated, unappreciated, neglected, devalued. They're Nasdaq, Gap, and middle siblings all rolled into one. Sales are weak, but that's to be expected with something that's b...
Desktop computers are underrated, unappreciated, neglected, devalued. They're the Gap, Nasdaq, and middle siblings all rolled into one. Sales are weak, but that's to be expected with something that...
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Computer makers -- as well as tech writers -- have long suggested making a laptop your only computer. The appeal is unmistakable: Without a bulky monitor and box, you have more room on your desk; you can use your computer in any room in the house, or even outside; and there's no need to own a second machine for travel.
This Spring, every major PC maker, from Compaq to Toshiba, is coming out this spring with a laptop loaded with the new Pentium 4 laptop chip. Barring parts shortages, you should soon be able to buy one of these machines, featuring performance you used to see only on big desktop models.
Carrying on
Just 18 months ago, Advanced Micro Devices crowed with pride as it beat archrival Intel in the race to introduce the world's first PC microprocessor with a clock speed of 1,000 megahertz, or one gi...
It is worth remembering, now that mighty Intel has fallen from grace, that between 1985 and the turn of the century, this company pulled off one of the most amazing extended runs of technological, ...
Notebooks can finally provide the 3-D video power punch that serious gamers demand, thanks to nVidia's recently released GeForce2 Go 3-D graphics chip.
METROPOLITAN VIEWS Le Meridien's smartly located downtown hotels, cleared of business travelers on weekends, are offering half or more off normal rates until February. A weekend stay in New York Ci...
COOL SUMMER Design your own package trip to Canada's Maritime Provinces through Maxxim Vacations for about 25% less than you'd pay a la carte. You get round-trip Air Canada tickets to Halifax from ...
DIVE TIME A seven-night scuba-diving package at the Blue Horizon Cottage Hotel in Grenada costs $478 per person, double occupancy, from April 16 until Dec. 15. The rate includes a one-bedroom suite...
Notebooks are great travel companions for everyone but gamers and music fanatics. Until now. Toshiba's new Satellite 2805-S402 changes the rules: It's a notebook that can replace a gung ho gamer's ...
You've heard the horror stories: A traveling executive's portable computer, containing highly sensitive company information, is stolen at the airport, forgotten in the taxicab, or left unattended i...
FADE IN: This month's Academy Awards will celebrate the magic of moviemaking. Shortly thereafter, barring an unexpected settlement, the film industry will shout "Cut!" as actors and writers go on s...
DIGITAL DIGIT When I fly, I'm paranoid about losing my laptop--I don't want just anyone to see the financial info and documents on my machine. That's why I tried out the Ethenticator MS 3000 from E...
Okay, I admit it: I used to get excited when the new phone books arrived. But I got over it when they made the type so small that I needed a magnifying glass. And I used to get excited when Intel c...
According to eBrain, the market research wing of the Consumer Electronics Association, nearly 70% of American adults will venture into an electronics store this holiday season in search of a techno...
Dell has never sold computers through retailers like CompUSA. Neither has Gateway (except at its own Country Stores) or Micron. Instead, they offer custom-configured machines direct to consumers at...
Your startup is gasping for air, and there's not an angel investor in sight. Don't panic. Clip and save these simple steps, and you may yet be able to bring your venture back from the brink of bank...
I once heard a standup comedian quip that no men's razor has a rotating head, lubricating strip, and stubble expunger, because it would weigh 45 pounds. If only Aqcess Technologies, creator of the ...
Have you noticed people getting by with less stuff than they used to? Acting less materialistic? Invoking that stern Yankee adage, "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"?
Hey, somebody put a PC in my monitor! The Acer Veriton flat-panel PC sleekly offers the power of a 500MHz Pentium III PC with 128MB of memory and a 15-inch LCD display in a single case less than 9 ...
Okay, it's late. At this time of year, I would normally have already drawn up a long list of things I'd like to improve about myself and, quite frankly, about you. The year would already be in full...
Toys and high tech haven't always been comfortable partners. For years, the most successful marriage of fun and bytes was the videogame player. Sega's Dreamcast, which advances the art of the video...
These days college students leave home for school with a lot more than a stack of composition notebooks and a hot plate. Dorm-room computers, electronic date books, credit cards and cross-country t...
Intel investors might be a little perplexed about the course of their beloved stock these days. This spring the $26 billion chipmaker announced that the rollout of its newest high-speed Pentium III...
Every year high-tech companies create thousands of excellent products that they hope will grab your eye--and your dollars. Of course, only a few of those products ever get either; most vanish with ...
I'm not ready to throw out my boom box, but I'm getting mighty close. With the launch of RealNetworks' RealJukebox, my PC has moved into the ranks of serious music machines.
Computers nowadays come in a dizzying array of sizes, shapes, colors (thanks, iMac) and brands. Prices too: You can buy a machine for much less than $1,000 and get the kind of performance and featu...
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Driving a new Pentium III computer is like slipping behind the wheel of a souped-up Porsche. It's great to see the world whiz by, but it's questionable whether you need all this horsepower just to ...
Like many great inventions, the home video camera has its downside. We tape the stories of our lives, and then we inflict on friends and relatives hours and hours of drooling babies, ghastly birthd...
This past Christmas, I decided to end our family's tradition of technology hand-me-downs. Before that, when I upgraded my home PC, my son would get the old one. But now that he's a teenager, I deci...
If you've been on the fence about purchasing a new computer, you may want to stay put for another month. Why? In March, Intel is expected to unveil its latest processor.
Corporate earnings are up. All right, they're not up. But they're not down. All right, they're down a little, but not as down as we thought they would be. For that reason, the market is all ebullie...
It's a small world, after all.
Something is amiss in the land of computers. On March 4, Intel warned that first-quarter results would come in below expectations; Compaq followed two days later with its own confession. Both stock...
For most of the 1990s, a bet on one of the Nasdaq's four horsemen was as close to a sure thing as you could find on Wall Street. Buy any of these tech giants--Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, or Oracle--an...
Sure, for $1,000 or so you can get a decent PC. It's probably all you really need. You'll write reports, cook up business plans, and browse the Web. That's fine.
When is it irresponsible to spend too little on research?
All stocks ran for cover when the decline in Asian markets dragged down prices throughout the rest of the world. The technology-heavy MONEY 30, which began at 1000 in January 1996, dropped 9.2% to ...
The world of digital technology is famous for its rapid pace of innovation, and the language that describes it changes just as quickly. Because the computer industry is constantly spinning out new ...
Sometimes it seems as though PCs should come stamped with expiration dates, like cartons of milk--fresh technology seems so perishable. Most users cannot replace their machines as fast as the indus...
Is there any better bargain today than the Internet? In most parts of the country, you can go online for 24 hours nonstop, consume all the Web pages you can find, send all the E-mail you can write,...
In the heyday of the muscle cars, Detroit's horsepower race was always hampered by reality: You couldn't go 200 mph on America's highways. The extra horsepower was wasted. There are no speed limits...
Notebook computers remain technological objects of desire, and no wonder. You can put superb design and high-performance computing power in the palm of your hand, or carry it in your briefcase. The...
Admit it: The very idea of shopping for a new home computer gives you a headache. In the past the process always boiled down to either spending at least $2,000 or paying less and settling for the P...
The collaboration between Intel and Hewlett-Packard to develop the Merced, a turbocharged big brother to the ubiquitous Pentium microprocessor, has been anything but stealthy. Everybody in Silicon ...
Weary of waiting endlessly for your old computer to download stock or fund prices from the Internet? Are your kids or grandkids bugging you to buy a machine that runs the latest version of Quake? O...
May 13 wasn't a Friday, but it was Intel's unlucky day. Digital Equipment Corp. and Cyrix Corp. separately sued Intel for patent infringement, asserting they have patents that Intel's Pentium, Pent...
Remember that column I wrote last fall, complaining that there wasn't anything left to write about in Silicon Valley, since everybody but Microsoft and Intel was imploding? ("Please Save Me From My...
If there's a high school senior in your house, you know that filling out applications may be the hardest thing about getting into college. These paper and pencil-age relics, which you have to get p...
Over the past month, investors rewarded several MONEY 30 companies for exhibiting the market dominance that qualifies them for our index. Coca-Cola (up 7%) snagged a prized Venezuelan bottling cont...
The disaster known as your corporate computer system got its start many years ago. Back when bewildered executives first encountered personal computers, they scarcely tried to control these strange...
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The sudden rush of boffo third-quarter earnings is turning lots of doomsayers red o' face down on Wall Street. In fact, the Street's own brokerage firms have led the way in posting eye-popping gain...
IT'S A HIGH-TECH VICIOUS CIRCLE. NEW computers get more powerful by the day. Better hardware leads to fancier software, which leads more and more people to bank and E-mail and do their homework by ...
After six years of tinkering with her computer, Jenny still isn't happy. She vents her frustration quietly, shuffling through a pile of bills for a string of electronic face-lifts: a color video ca...
NEXGEN, Milpitas, California Microprocessors for PCs FOUNDED: 1986 REVENUES: $12 million (est.) EMPLOYEES: 136 (NASDAQ: NXGN)
Even though it's a glorious Saturday morning and he's coasting downhill astride his jet-black bicycle, Intel Corp. CEO Andy Grove is hard at work. As usual, he's lagging far behind his more athleti...
Technology stocks have been wall Street's party animals. Since the beginning of 1994, Standard & Poor's three computer stock indexes have risen 35.4% (semiconductors), 33.8% (software) and 36.1% (c...
In a world in which to be admired one year is almost a guarantee of being reviled the next, business reputations remain surprisingly durable. Eight of the top ten companies on Fortune's Corporate R...
Under tremendous pressure from the entire computer industry and a growing army of disgruntled PC users, Intel in late December finally announced it would replace its flawed Pentium chip for any buy...
What do you get when you divide 4,195,835 by 2.9999991? The answer: 1,398,612, unless you're using a PC based on Intel's Pentium processor, which comes up with 1,398,527. The chip has a subtle flaw...
YOU'RE WATCHING Saturday Night Live. At a break you see commercials for beer, two kinds of sporty cars, and ... a computer part? It's not a spoof, it's Intel's ambitious and expensive attempt to ge...
Sanguine retailers, betting that consumers have finally spent all they can stand on replacement furniture and other durable goods, are preparing for hearty Christmas sales this year. But what if th...
The new line of consumer PCs that Compaq Computer announced in mid-September were loaded with hot features like cable-ready TV and speakerphones, but notably lacked one key item: Intel's Pentium ch...
WOULD YOU BASE your business strategy on the assumption that AT&T, IBM, Matsushita, Motorola, Philips, Sega, and Sony won't be able to keep up with you? How about gambling nearly a third of your co...
TO DESCRY THE FUTURE and the rich, complex careers that await there, you need a gaze steady enough to see through a lot of pain. A new, quirky, more democratic U.S. economy is emerging, its informa...
Going over the specifications for a Pentium or PowerPC computer chip is like measuring the engine of a Ferrari. You can tell it's fast by looking, but it's much more fun to drive it. Buyers of comp...
As the Dow Jones industrial average roared to one overvalued record after another in January, investors had much to celebrate. But the Dow's sharp drop in early February reminded them that they had...
If you've ever kept a powerful laptop in your lap for more than a few minutes, you know the expression ''hot microprocessor'' is not just a figure of speech. The faster chips get, the more heat the...
CAR TIPS Ask the man who makes them. Insider did, and new Ford CEO Alex Trotman, 60, shared his views on his competitors' products. ''The Lexus 400 I think is a fine car. The Honda Accord is not a ...
Like any adolescent, the computer industry is given to growth spurts. Just when demand seems to peak, some breakthrough gizmo or application captures users' imaginations and triggers the release of...
Computer dealers this month will start selling PCs with Intel's Pentium chip, which allows the machines to run two to five times faster than today's speediest models. The timesaving chip is especia...
Intel, a standout stock market performer of late, looked like an also-ran just seven years ago. Since then the company has transformed itself from a money- losing producer of commodity memory chips...
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