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• In Pictures: A deep dive into Windows 8 Consumer Preview

  By Preston Gralla | 06 March, 2012 09:02

  Windows 8 Consumer Preview offers a new look at Microsoft's upcoming interface for both computers and tablets. Is one device being shortchanged in favor of the other?

• Android: Coming soon to a desktop near you?

  By Katherine Noyes | 25 February, 2012 05:16

  If ever there was a week to make plain the writing on the proverbial wall of the personal computing world, this week has been it.

• Desktop PC killers: Past, present, and future

  By Ian Paul | 25 January, 2012 02:04

  The desktop PC is dead; the era of the gleaming beige tower is over. The age of smartphones, laptops, and tablets is here--or so say numerous pundits and critics.

• Smartphones on rampage: next, camcorders

  By Brennon Slattery | 10 January, 2012 03:57

  The smartphone is on a device-killing rampage, and camcorders are next on its hit list.

• Google releases Chrome desktop-sharing feature

  By Christina DesMarais | 10 October, 2011 02:53

  Google isn’t reinventing the wheel with a new feature it is testing that allows any two computers using its Chrome browser to connect with each other.

• HP or no HP: The PC lives

  By Ian Paul | 21 August, 2011 06:41

  Suggestions that the PC is dead are greatly exaggerated. Flexibility, innovation and users' storage needs will keep it around a good long while.

• Tiny Linux plug PC offers a Cloud computing alternative

  By Katherine Noyes | 14 June, 2011 03:43

  Linux-based plug computers such as the Sheevaplug have been drawing fresh attention for some time already, but on Monday MimoMonitors launched the new MimoPlug, a tiny, cube-shaped contender that's designed as a desktop PC alternative for cloud computing applications.

• OS X Lion features could make Google Chromebooks tough sell

  By Ian Paul | 14 June, 2011 00:39

  Apple's new version of its desktop operating system is expected to allow quick access to the Internet without having to log back in when your system is locked.

• Analysis: Why Linux is a desktop flop

  By Maria Korolov | 30 April, 2012 21:28

  It's free, easier to use than ever, IT staffers know it and love it, and it has fewer viruses and Trojans than Windows.

• CES 2011: Lenovo announces IdeaCentre all-in-ones

  By Nate Ralph | 05 January, 2011 12:49

  Lenovo's IdeaCentre All-in-One desktops have been revamped for 2011, offering up a host of new features, and functionality. There's something for everyone here, with 3D displays, multitouch, TV tuners and new processors from AMD and Intel.

• Denying Death: The desktop digs in

  By Trevor Clarke | 06 May, 2009 02:05

  Despite the notebook’s surge in popularity, the stalwart desktop remains strong with solid sales and innovative iterations. TREVOR CLARKE reports.