Posted 07/17/08 at 02:55:52 PM by Will Smith

I’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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Posted 06/27/08 at 01:55:33 PM by Will Smith

In 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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Posted 06/03/08 at 01:59:22 PM by Will Smith

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

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Posted 04/14/08 at 02:41:48 PM by Will Smith

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

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Posted 02/27/08 at 07:19:05 PM by Will Smith

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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Posted 01/24/08 at 08:30:08 PM by Will Smith

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

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Posted 12/23/07 at 12:42:40 PM by Will Smith

Will is in ur internet, clogging ur toobz.

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Posted 12/03/07 at 03:28:30 PM by Will Smith

It's hard on the streets for an EIC.

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