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12 Technologies That Changed Everything

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August 2, 2010
Desktop Essentials
Game Changers: 12 Technologies That Changed Everything
New tech crops up daily, but only the rare breakthroughs really change our lives. Here are a dozen advances that transformed our world. - Dan Tynan, PCWorld
The Lighter Side of Desktops
Amiga: 25 Years Later The greatest cult computer of them all made its debut a quarter-century ago this week.
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Desktops Gone Wild Bored with your old beige box? These enterprising modders have you covered. Gorgeous, unwieldy, and rarely pragmatic, here are 15 cases that blur the line between workhorse and work of art.
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Steampunk Tech Mods: A 19th-Century Take on 21st-Century PCs and Gadgets If Sherlock Holmes--or Jack the Ripper--had owned our technology, his equipment might have looked like this.
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Desktop News
Beauty Shots: Technology to Drool Over
Game Changers: 12 Technologies That Changed Everything
Refreshed Magic Trackpad Joins New Mac Pro, iMacs
4 Reasons Apple's Magic Trackpad Won't Kill the Mouse
Apple Updates iMac, Mac Pro, and Display Lineup
Apple's Refreshed iMacs Tout Newest Intel CPUs
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Pros AlienFX customizable lighting; Fantastic performance Cons Display has poor vertical viewing angles; Fan noise gets a little loud
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Pros Auto color calibration for workstation graphics; Excellent CPU performance for a laptop Cons Touch interface is wonky and difficult to use; Surprisingly poor 3D performance
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HP Mini 5102
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Pros Lots of options, including touchscreen display; Good keyboard and touchpad Cons Expensive for a netbook; Limited resolution
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Droid Does Froyo: Your Guide to This Week's Android 2.2 Upgrade Verizon's Motorola Droid is finally getting its Froyo fix this week. Here's a quick refresher on what you can expect once Android 2.2 invades your phone.
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iPhone 3G Software Complaints Surface Analysis: The iPhone 4 is getting the attention, but iOS4 isn't a smooth upgrade for some users of iPhone 3GS.
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Acer's Aspire TimelineX 1830T-3721 Is Sleek and Attractive, but Has Iffy Ergonomics Acer's new ultraportable brings Core i5 power to a diminutive design, but not perfection.
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Downloads: Editor's Collection
The Best Windows 7 DownloadsWe're big fans of Microsoft's latest OS, but we're bigger fans of making Windows better--so we've rounded up the best Windows 7 downloads. They'll let you customize it in any way possible, give it features that Microsoft removed or neglected to include, and more. So get ready to download--you're about to take Windows 7 to a new level.
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Fine-tune your Vista or 7 system with this Tweak UI analogue.
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