PC Magazine has a nice analysis of why tablets are selling well and will continue to sell well, but they aren’t taking over the entire industry. PCs are mature and not changing a lot at this point, while tablets are
The post Why PC makers love tablets, or should appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
I went looking for a resource-friendly browser that would run well on a 1 GHz-ish Android tablet. Everything I read said that Baidu was the lightest browser on resources. Since Baidu is a Chinese company and very low-end Android tablets
The post Baidu: The lightweight browser for low-end Android appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
I’ve been hearing predictions for a year that after Windows XP went out of support, it would only be a matter of time before people started backporting patches to it. As it turns out, they don’t have to. Windows XP
The post Windows XP rises from the dead… accidentally appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
I wanted to be able to stream from Windows Media Player to Android. I have lots of media stored on my Windows computers, but what if I’m in a room that doesn’t have a computer, or outside? Good GenXer that I
The post Stream from Windows Media Player to Android appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
I had a maddening issue in Windows Media Player on my Windows 10 machine where I could only rip CDs at a maximum bit rate of 192 kbps. Since storage is so cheap anymore, I prefer to rip at 320
The post Enabling 320kbps bitrate MP3s in Windows Media Player in Windows 10 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Last year, a flood of $99 tablets built with extremely low-end hardware running dated versions of Android appeared. This year, slightly better tablets running slightly less dated versions of Android are readily available, sometimes for as little as $60. And
The post How to buy a sub-$100 Android tablet and not get burned appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Microsoft is willing to install a clean copy of Windows in its retail stores on any PC for a flat fee of $99. (Windows license not included, of course.) They’ll also optionally include Microsoft’s Windows Live Essentials programs, the ad-supported
The post I can save you $99 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Right around a year ago, I wrote about the difficulties of making a good $100 tablet. But then, today, I read on Slashdot about someone finding a nice $45 Android tablet in a Chinese bazaar, then finding a similar unit
The post The good (or at least decent) $89 tablet appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Slashdot accuses the new Nook HD and HD+ of punching above their weight. Now, granted, B&N has an uphill fight. But to me, there are several compelling things about these new devices. Maybe these devices don’t have what that particular
The post Barnes & Noble punches back appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
I like the idea of a really big tablet, but I think Viewsonic and I have different ideas of “really big.” This week Viewsonic announced a 24-inch Android 4.1 tablet. Here’s the problem with that. A 24-inch display measures roughly
The post I’m not sure if this really big tablet is a really big idea appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
PC Magazine has a nice analysis of why tablets are selling well and will continue to sell well, but they aren’t taking over the entire industry. PCs are mature and not changing a lot at this point, while tablets are
The post Why PC makers love tablets, or should appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
I went looking for a resource-friendly browser that would run well on a 1 GHz-ish Android tablet. Everything I read said that Baidu was the lightest browser on resources. Since Baidu is a Chinese company and very low-end Android tablets
The post Baidu: The lightweight browser for low-end Android appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
I’ve been hearing predictions for a year that after Windows XP went out of support, it would only be a matter of time before people started backporting patches to it. As it turns out, they don’t have to. Windows XP
The post Windows XP rises from the dead… accidentally appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
I wanted to be able to stream from Windows Media Player to Android. I have lots of media stored on my Windows computers, but what if I’m in a room that doesn’t have a computer, or outside? Good GenXer that I
The post Stream from Windows Media Player to Android appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
I had a maddening issue in Windows Media Player on my Windows 10 machine where I could only rip CDs at a maximum bit rate of 192 kbps. Since storage is so cheap anymore, I prefer to rip at 320
The post Enabling 320kbps bitrate MP3s in Windows Media Player in Windows 10 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Last year, a flood of $99 tablets built with extremely low-end hardware running dated versions of Android appeared. This year, slightly better tablets running slightly less dated versions of Android are readily available, sometimes for as little as $60. And
The post How to buy a sub-$100 Android tablet and not get burned appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Microsoft is willing to install a clean copy of Windows in its retail stores on any PC for a flat fee of $99. (Windows license not included, of course.) They’ll also optionally include Microsoft’s Windows Live Essentials programs, the ad-supported
The post I can save you $99 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Right around a year ago, I wrote about the difficulties of making a good $100 tablet. But then, today, I read on Slashdot about someone finding a nice $45 Android tablet in a Chinese bazaar, then finding a similar unit
The post The good (or at least decent) $89 tablet appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Slashdot accuses the new Nook HD and HD+ of punching above their weight. Now, granted, B&N has an uphill fight. But to me, there are several compelling things about these new devices. Maybe these devices don’t have what that particular
The post Barnes & Noble punches back appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
I like the idea of a really big tablet, but I think Viewsonic and I have different ideas of “really big.” This week Viewsonic announced a 24-inch Android 4.1 tablet. Here’s the problem with that. A 24-inch display measures roughly
The post I’m not sure if this really big tablet is a really big idea appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
