The worst part of Windows 7? Internet Explorer
In the latest instalment of our experiment to see whether Windows 7 can convert a hardened Mac user, Chris Brennan tries to get to grips with Internet Explorer A few years ago I really, really liked...
View ArticleSteve Ballmer signs a Mac
Never let it be said that Steve Ballmer doesn’t have a sense of humour. Nor that Nashville students don’t have cojones. Because it takes a brave man to ask the Microsoft boss to sign his computer, when...
View ArticleAdobe: friend or foe of the web design community?
It would be easy to see Adobe as the injured party in its current war with Apple over the absence of Flash Player from the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. With the release of its flagship CS5 series of...
View ArticleThe genius of the Lego Printer: video
Let’s be clear on one thing: Lego is brilliant. The block-based toy started life in Denmark and, since its current design was patented in January 1958, over 400 billion of the little plastic bricks...
View ArticleGlossy vs matte screens: why the PC industry’s out of touch
The following charts neatly encapsulate exactly how out of touch the PC industry is on the issue of glossy vs matte screens. We asked PC Pro readers which type of screen they prefer. They answered as...
View ArticleApple keynote: live(ish) from a London pub
I’ve watched all manner of events on a big screen at the pub: football, rugby, that weird version of rugby that Americans in riot gear play, to name but a few. Last night, however, the London...
View ArticleThe computing relics unearthed in the PC Pro Labs
The PC Pro Lab is a dark, dingy place full of cardboard boxes, benchmarks and more motherboards, processors and PCs than we care to count, but it’s also home to a variety of kit that’s slipped through...
View ArticleIs Apple right to leave old Macs stranded on Mountain Lion?
So here we go again. Another Apple OS with a name that clearly shows that it is running out of big cat monikers. And ever so quietly, another list of Macs bites the OS X dust, as they tell us that the...
View ArticleWindows 8 vs OS X on the Retina MacBook Pro
We’ll be covering exactly how the MacBook Pro’s Retina display works with various resolution and scaling settings in a forthcoming magazine feature, but for now the quickest way to demonstrate is with...
View ArticleWindows 8 sparking little more search interest than Vista
There’s a lot of debate over the popularity of Windows 8. Microsoft claims Windows 8 is outselling Windows 7; British desktop PC makers have told us that up to 93% of new PC buyers still want Windows...
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