TechSpective’s Hardware section covers the devices, components, and platforms that enterprise and professional users depend on — with a focus on how hardware decisions intersect with AI readiness, productivity, and long-term value. With 27 pages of archives, it’s one of the site’s most extensive content areas. This section tracks hardware as infrastructure, not just consumer gadgetry, with consistent attention to performance, longevity, security integration, and the platforms powering the next wave of AI-driven work.
Sometimes it’s all about the cores, particularly when it comes to creating video and VR content. AMD’s new Threadripper and Epyc processors currently have a significant advantage when it comes to creating video content because many of the tools are
Velocity Micro Moves Aggressively on AMD Epyc Threadripper Workstation Opportunity Read More »
I’ve been involved with a lot of amazing products over the years and one thing that is almost always the case with an amazing product is that it doesn’t go through the normal product development path. More often they come
AMD Threadripper and Why We Need Products Built on Passion Read More »
Successful business organizations seldom rest on their laurels but that’s hardly a surprise. Between continually shifting markets, constantly evolving economic and political developments and competitors looking for exploitable opportunities, companies that fail to maintain forward motion often find themselves at
IBM’s New Gen LinuxONE – Modernizing the Mainframe and Benefitting Customers Read More »
Consumer Reports was famously not a fan of supplemental support and extended warranty programs. In fact, they were outspoken about the fact they were generally a waste of money a few years back. The only big exception I recall back
Dell Premium Support Plus: Why Premium Support Makes Sense for PCs Read More »
Even smart, successful people can get things very, very wrong. Take Apple CEO Tim Cook and the 2015 interview where he stated, “I think if you’re looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore? No really, why
Why Would You Buy a PC? Intel’s 8th Gen Core Offers a Powerful Argument Read More »
This week AMD announced they had signed Lenovo and Sugon as OEM partners and Tencent and JD.com as datacenter customers in China as they roll their EPYC platform into China’s cloud market. Other firms supporting this launch are Acer, Asus,
AMD’s EPYC Move into China Read More »
Compute performance is expressed most often in terms of benchmark tests, and the resulting gains new systems offer over previous generation solutions. But such analysis can benefit from situational details, like a ruggedized system’s ability to survive extreme temperatures, humidity
Dell Precision – SIGGRAPH 2017 and Democratizing Visual Computing Read More »
It is summer and time to consider whether that aging laptop you’ve been lugging around should be replaced. You now have the time to migrate all your crap from the old machine to the new one, and I have some
Choosing A New Laptop: A Tale Of Two ThinkPads Read More »
The mouse has been more or less a required peripheral since the invention of the Macintosh and the introduction of the first Windows operating system—the one that still required you to also install DOS first and then add Windows as
Review: Contour RollerMouse Red Read More »
I picked up a 32GB Intel Optane memory module a couple of weeks back and the installation process has been an “experience”. Easy this isn’t yet, though I expect they will improve it over time otherwise they’ll likely see many
Intel Optane Memory: Pain To Install But Oh So Worth It Read More »
