Rob Enderle

Pat Gelsinger was one of the front runners to take over Intel years ago when he was asked to take over Larrabee Microarchitecture; that effort was supposed to finally give Intel a high-end GPU that could compete with NVIDIA and AMD. However, the project ran into big challenges. While internal reporting indicated things were going […]

I have long awaited something like Windows 365, which is Microsoft’s PC in the cloud. So each user is assigned, depending on service level, a virtual PC with various features. In fact, I’ve been waiting for this kind of cloud-based PC ever since Sun demonstrated their old Sun Ray One platform, which was positioned as […]

When the Internet arrived, it caught a whole bunch of people sleeping. Even Microsoft was caught out of position, but Bill Gates immediately understood the risk and rallied the company to confront it, eventually becoming, for a time, the most powerful player. The event enabled Google, Netflix, Amazon, and many other companies that didn’t exist […]

Apple is again making a run at the Enterprise, and Forrester has released a report indicating companies could save around $300 a year in support by moving to Macs.  So why aren’t enterprises flocking to Apple? Ironically, Apple is running at the Enterprise as if it were the 1990s, not the 2020s, and they are […]

Thanks to the pandemic, I’m getting in many Huddle Room solutions to test, and one of them that stands out is the Konftel C2070.  This solution is a platform-independent system, meaning that it uses a PC or laptop for connectivity and isn’t hard tied to any of the video conferencing platforms. Given the diversity of […]

Ever since Satya Nadella took over Microsoft and flipped the company to be a primary Cloud services provider, I’ve been waiting for the announcement of a complete Windows cloud offering. Well, that that wait ended this month with the announcement of Windows 365. Windows 365 is the beginning of the evolution for this offering which […]

The US Jedi project was critical to the future of the US Defense department, far from trivial at $10B dollars, appeared to have been bid correctly, yet it failed due to two problems. One was the perception of impropriety unacceptable in any government contract; additionally, the delays due to contract challenges have rendered the Jedi […]

When the Logitech Brio came out years ago, it was arguably the best 4K camera in the market, and it worked with the Windows face recognition technology called Windows Hello. Initially, it came with things like a digital background utility that wasn’t bad for its time, but since its launch, Logitech decided, for some reason, […]

Last week I talked about the HP Zbook Firefly and how it compared to the HP Dragonfly Max. This week, I’d like to talk about an alternative path for some high-performance notebooks, the Asus ROG Strix G15 AMD Advantage Edition. The industry’s dirty little secret that many users looking for power have gone to gaming […]

I was returning the HP Dragonfly Max I had in for testing last month when HP sent me their new Firefly Workstation laptop. When I compared the prices as configured, they were close to each other. The Dragonfly Max was, as configured, $2,789, and the Firefly mobile workstation was $2,687. That’s only a $102 difference. […]

Intel Evo, as a program, was and is inspired in that it has broad applicability to the need to better assure an Apple-like experience assured by Intel. AMD has responded with a similar program, currently focused on gaming computers, called AMD Advantage, which uses a broader blend of vendors to accomplish a similar goal. AMD […]

Alienware is an exciting company. It represents arguably the most powerful computing brand in the PC gaming space, and it is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies. Gaming laptops used to be more like portable desktop computers; they were heavy, ran hot, and had battery performance that you could measure in minutes. I often wondered why […]