ColumnsWaiting for a Windows Renaissance

Will SmithI’ve written about Apple’s OS X many times before, and it’s no secret that I’ve long been impressed with Apple’s operating systems. This month, I reviewed the MacBook Air, which gave me the opportunity to spend some quality time with Apple’s latest OS, Leopard, and I had an epiphany: Windows users are in the same exact position that Mac users were in 1999.

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ColumnsWhere Lies the Point of Diminishing Returns?

Will SmithIn the July issue, I tested HP’s Mini-Note—the small, cheap notebook is HP’s answer to the subcompact, sub-$500 Asus Eee PC. HP’s tiny notebook got me thinking about the point of diminishing PC returns—the point at which adding more hardware oomph doesn’t deliver a perceptible performance boost to the user.

I didn’t have any major complaints with its performance in my most common activities: web browsing, checking email, writing documents, and listening to music. Is this Mini-Note’s 1.2GHz VIA C7-M CPU fast enough for me?

Hit the jump for my conclusions.

 

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NewsEd Word: Welcome to the New MaximumPC!

We've finished our print redesign, and we're introducing new columnists. It's a banner month!

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NewsEd Word: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPhone

Will Smith accepts Gordon's scorn and finally gets an iPhone. Turns out it's pretty neat these days.

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ColumnsEd Word: Profile of an Adolescent OS

OSes mature much less slowly than human beings. Windows is in its gawky adolescent phase - what will it look like when it grows up?

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FROM THE ARCHIVEEd Word: The Maximum PC Promise to Readers

Will Smith sets the record straight on the crowbar separation between advertising and editorial content.

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FROM THE ARCHIVEEd Word: Are you there, Internet? It's me, Will.

Will is in ur internet, clogging ur toobz.

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FROM THE ARCHIVEEd Word: Managing Maximum Expectations

It's hard on the streets for an EIC.

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