Michael Brown - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 2/05/2013 Intel lifts the veil on Haswell graphics

Intel is clearly tired of Nvidia and AMD kicking sand in its face when it comes to graphics performance. The company has had a talented GPU engineerin...

Article | 17/04/2013 In Pictures: 13 PC technologies that need to disappear, stat!

Some technology hangs on long after it's needed

Article | 6/03/2013 Meet 60GHz Wi-Fi, the insanely fast future of wireless networking

Get ready for a ridiculous boost in wireless networking speed. Two camps are competing to deliver wireless components that are at least seven times fa...

Article | 10/04/2012 Fifth-generation Wi-Fi is coming: are you ready for 802.11ac?

If your business has kept pace with changes in wireless networking, you've deployed dual-band routers and client adapters that can stream encrypted da...

Article | 21/01/2010 2010 CPU forecast: What's coming for desktop and mobile PCs

No one should be surprised that the big action in the CPU market this year will be in the mobile and low-power processor segments.

Article | 1/12/2009 Home networking: How to avoid traffic jams

In many households today, broadband Internet connections are used not only for e-mail and Web browsing, but also to stream music and video, play onlin...

Article | 24/10/2008 The audiophile’s guide to streaming music

The introduction of the MP3 player enabled people to play their music anywhere, but it has had an unfortunate side effect: Folks have sacrificed the a...