Mini PCs have always been a kind of niche market, though Apple has done well with its Mac Mini. They're not a bad idea if you ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The startup Deta wants to bring back software ownership and personal privacy without losing all the things that ...

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...

Buying a new computer can be a daunting task. The process involves numerous hidden factors that vary depending on your tech skill level, intended uses, and personal or business budget. One size does ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. When I started using a computer in the mid-1970s, it was on a ...

We named it the personal computer. Somewhere along the way, “personal” came to mean “logged into five accounts and re-setting the same preferences on every screen.” That gap, between devices we own ...

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...

I'm not sure if this is the best forum for this, but I thought people on ARS might have an opinion... As a work from independent contractor, largely on open source my home office consists of one well ...