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.
Rapid fire changes are to be expected in the tech industry, along with rising/falling fortunes, unusual market developments and sudden turns in conventional wisdom. That said, it’s difficult to think of an area where radical shifts occur more frequently than
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It’s no mystery that playing games on our favorite devices is by far one of the most-loved pastime activities for computer enthusiasts nowadays—right after sci-fi conventions and possibly comic books. And no matter if you like to go with sports,
The Best Gaming Ultrabooks of 2018 Read More »
There is a lot of distrust surrounding the Intel brand at the moment largely due to a sequence of events which included a slow disclosure of a serious security flaw (which appears to be getting worse), a secret early disclosure
HP Steps Up to AMD Laptop/Desktop Opportunity Read More »
I’ve never seen a company so cripple itself as I have with Intel recently. From OEM support, to marketing, to just good governance—Intel appears to have all but abandoned the PC market even though companies like HP (speaking of HP,
AMD Jumps Past Intel with Second-Generation Ryzen Processors Read More »
Laws mean different things to different people. For most, they are immutable structures demanding to be followed or strictures begging to be tested. For others, laws define the line separating conventional and unconventional behavior. For me, the most important (and,
New Dell PCs – Predictable Evolution Delivers Customer Satisfaction Read More »
There are a number of reasons that you might want to transport data on an external, portable storage device like a USB thumb drive or portable hard drive or SSD unit—you may need to share data with or deliver data
Review: iStorage DiskAshur Pro 2 Portable SSD Read More »
Energy efficiency hasn’t always been a big deal for high performance computing (HPC) and supercomputing customers. In fact, for the first four decades (beginning in the early 1960s) that supercomputers were commercially produced, HPC owners were far more concerned with
Lenovo Takes the Heat off HPC Energy Consumption Read More »
It’s hardly a secret that data center-focused vendors celebrate new generation server microprocessors and systems. Coming after years of development and tens of millions of dollars in investment, new systems highlight vendors’ essential capabilities and their success in expanding the
IBM Transforms POWER9 Advances into Mainstream Business Value Read More »
AMD’s APU is really what separates the company from Intel and NVIDIA because AMD is the only firm in their class that can blend the GPU and the CPU into one product. Targeted at the entry-level market, this not only
The Magic of the AMD APU: Making Affordable PCs Interesting and Outpacing Intel Read More »
This month AMD and Dell launched a line of impressive servers, but that is not the big news. The big news is that this signals Intel is vulnerable and that has huge implications for not only the server but the
The Massive Implications of AMD’s Big Dell Server Win Read More »
