John R. Delaney

About

John Delaney is a freelancer writer and frequent contributor to PC Magazine. A 13-year veteran of PC Magazine's Labs (most recently as Director of Operations), John was responsible for the recruitment, training and management of the Labs technical staff, as well as evaluating and maintaining the integrity of the Labs testing machines and procedures.Prior to joining Ziff Davis Publishing, John spent 6 years in retail operations for Federated Stores, Inc. before accepting a purchasing position with Morris Decision Systems, one of New York's first value-added resellers of the original IBM PC. For the next 5 years, he was responsible for buying and configuring IBM PC, XT and AT desktops for many of New York's financial institutions. He then worked for the now defunct ComputerLand chain of PC dealers before joining PC Magazine in 1987.John maintains a mini-lab, complete with a wireless network and a small army of test machines, at his home on Long Island, where he lives with his wife Laura, a former Senior Project Leader with PC Magazine Labs.

A Slick-Looking, But Expensive LCD

ZIFFPAGE TITLEAt A Glance > ZIFFPAGE TITLEFull Review Not everyone has the need (or the desk space) for a 24-inch LCD widescreen monitor, but if you work with large spreadsheets or multipage documents, or require a high-resolution (1,920-by-1,200) display for digital imaging, Samsungs SyncMaster 244T will fill the bill. But its $1,250 street price will […]

Top 10 Desktop Buying Tips

1. Match your desktop configuration to your business needs. If you buy strictly according to price, you may end up with systems that cant handle the workload. Likewise, dont overspend on options youre not likely to use. 2. Leave room for expansion. You may not need lots of memory or recordable optical drives now, but […]

A Wearable PC

With the processor of a PDA but the appearance of a tablet PC, the Xybernaut Atigo-M ($1,895 direct and up, depending on configuration) is a bit of both. This unique portable Web tablet is designed for mobility in the field but is also useful as a thin-client wireless device or as a smart terminal. Youre […]