15 Offbeat Computer Designs
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These creative prototypes take advantage of flexible, foldable screens, unusual designs, and materials that can mold themselves into new shapes.
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A GNOME 2 frontend for the Visual Boy Advance emulator.
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Compact kit for the thumb-generation
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Clever concept takes old-school approach to Apple's mythical gadget. In Cult of Mac.
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Motherboards are a way of life for the growing crowds at the Taiwan trade show. Plus: a new take on the megahertz wars.
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Digital photo frames expand beyond standalone frames into home appliances.
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The Hitachi 2400 Smart Windshield: You think you got clutter on your computer display? Ha! Screech! CRASH!
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As more computer buyers turn to laptops, lesser-known companies that produce PCs will have a hard time keeping up with the big guys.Photos: White-box choices
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What high-powered, high-design, graphics-oriented, Unix-based computers are beloved by their fanatical users? Clue: It's not what you think. By Jason Walsh.
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&#147;I am writing these words on the most elegant desktop computer I&#146;ve ever used,&#148; writes Walt Mossberg about the iMac G5 in the Wall Street Journal, &#147;a computer that is not only uncommonly beautiful but fast and powerful, virus-free and surprisingly affordable. This machine takes up no more space on a desk than a flat-panel monitor. In fact, the entire computer is contained behind a flat-panel screen in a space just 2 inches thick &#151; thinner than most flat-panel monitors alone.&#148; [Sep 23]
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Hot G5 chip requires some serious effort to avoid overheating in all-in-one desktop design.
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For decades, computer performance has been driven largely by the increasing numbers of ever-smaller transistors squeezed into the machines' silicon brains. With each generation, speeds jumped and prices dropped.
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Cruising through the booths on the CES show floor, a few things catch our eye, though most are on the horizon, not available yet. A fuzzy keyboard, Dick Tracy "watch" and a sci-fi keyboard with mouse should be fun.
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Tired of Apple's elegant, understated product design? A host of companies banish the bland with custom designs for iPhones, iPods, MacBooks and other products. Commentary by Leander Kahney.
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A new computer should deliver about 10 times the performance of a desktop personal computer.
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If youngsters could design their own laptop computers from scratch, what functions would they include?
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Mac OS X âLeopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots â and most of them are bright ones,â declares David Pogue (New York Times). He points, for example, to two âroutine-changingâ features. Time Machine, which offers âthe shortest setup of any backup system in history.â And Quick Look, which lets you âview the contents of a documentâs icon at full size, right at the desktop, without having to open the program that created it.â Pogue says âitâs fantastic.â