Lenovo’s ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses: Beginning of a Desktop Revolution?
Lenovo has been pushing the innovation button of late, and at CES 2021, they didn’t disappoint anyone. But the most interesting product they launched was the ThinkReality Glasses A3. This solution is the first iteration of an enterprise-grade head-mounted display. Like flat panels revolutionized PCs--incredibly portable PCs--I think head-mounted displays could revolutionize the next generation of mobile PCs. While these...
2020 and CEO Bob Swan’s Impressive Year at Intel
When Bob Swan, Intel's CEO, took over the company from beleaguered Brian Krzanich in 2018, it looked like he had inherited a train wreck. But he appeared to hit the ground running since he had been CFO and knew where all the bodies were buried. He had to rebuild the company that had been ravaged by ill-advised layoffs, a...
Laptops that Defined 2020 and their Respective Makers
As we reach the end of the year, I like to first look back at the products that I think helped define a segment and then look forward to what I think will define the next year. 2020 was a year defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the products that came out this year were mostly defined before it hit....
Tech Topics to Safely Discuss Over the Holidays
Families gather over the holidays, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly suggest they don't. I'm thinking there is another reason to consider not gathering, and that is because political discussions could end badly, particularly here in the U.S. So I figured I'd pick three relatively safe conversations to have that aren't right or left but...
Qualcomm’s Most Interesting New Smartphone Feature
This week was a depressing one for the analysts who cover the smartphone market. Traditionally we fly to Hawaii to attend the Qualcomm event, where we get a sense of what new features the premium phones will have in the next year. Thanks to COVID this year, we got a box with things that reminded us of Hawaii in...
HP Elite c1030 Chromebook: The Corporate Notebook We’ve Been Awaiting
I’ll be honest: I don’t get Chromebooks. When they first came out, they didn’t use Android, which was Google’s most successful OS, and didn’t run Android apps. While they now run Android apps, most are still mostly focused on smartphones, not laptops. I then thought they would be used as a cloud client and do what Microsoft is ramping...