Windows 7 sparked surge in business demand for PCs
Dell is bullish about a recovery in PC demand from businesses, saying the Oct. 22 release of Windows 7 sparked a surge in PC sales. Read more...

Dell's Q3 profit slides 54%

Dell's Q3 profit slides 54%

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Windows 7 sparked surge in business demand for PCs
Dell is bullish about a recovery in PC demand from businesses, saying the Oct. 22 release of Windows 7 sparked a surge in PC sales.

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Many of us now find ourselves working from multiple locations. We sometimes trot around with a laptop, sometimes use different computers in each location and, increasingly often, try to access our files from computers we don't own. Fortunately, you can access files you need at multiple locations, either via synchronizing selective files constantly, or by using remote access tools. Here are four ways you can access your files remotely:

Practical Advice for Laptops and Desktops
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Review: 3 Windows 7 touch-screen laptops
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21.5- and 27-inch iMacs (Late 2009)
Featuring bigger and better screens and shiny new mice, the physical changes to the aluminum iMac in this update are the most dramatic since it was introduced over two years ago, but the speed improvements are marginal at best.

iMac (Late 2009) benchmarks
Apple recently updated its popular iMac line of desktop computers to include larger screens, more standard memory and bigger hard drives. Three of the four new configurations--two 21.5-inch models and one 27-inch model--feature 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo processors and are available now. Macworld Lab has the 3.06GHz trio and we've put them to the test. (A fourth standard configuration, a 2.66GHz Intel Core i5-based 27-inch model, will be the first iMac to sport a quad-core processor. It should be available later this month.)

Mac mini (Late 2009)
Back in March, when I reviewed the previous Mac mini models--officially called the Mac mini (Early 2009)--Apple's smallest desktop computer had just received a long-overdue refresh: it had been 19 months since the company had touched the Mac mini line. But that update was the most significant in the history of the line; while the two models retained the same $599 and $799 price tags as their 2007 predecessors, nearly every aspect of each was upgraded.

ConnectedText
ConnectedText ($40, 30-day free trial) is a personal wiki program. With it, you can very easily create wiki-style documents which can be as simple or as complex as you wish. This format is ideal for research notes, documentation of complex topics, authors, and any other project which involves a lot of information which is both interrelated and easily broken into multiple smaller topics.

Four considerations for SSD deployment
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Getting to know Windows 7? Don't stop now: From speeding up taskbar thumbnails to reining in UAC, here are 20 ways to make Windows 7 act the way you want. Is Motorola's new Droid good enough to vanquish iPhone envy? To find out, we took it on a 3-day trip. Sure, you could always use Linux as a desktop OS, but Corel Linux 1.0 was the first distro designed for ordinary users. It's been a long, strange trip since then. New touch-screen laptops from Fujitsu, HP and Lenovo take advantage of Microsoft Windows 7's touch-friendly infrastructure.

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