The process, which uses a desktop machine similar to a slit-lamp, is simple and painless.
However, classifying it as a desktop machine may be a bit of a misnomer.
But it's up to you to keep that info in synch with what's on your desktop machine.
The local Gateway people were kind enough to supply me with their Select 1000 desktop machine, powered by AMD's Athlon chip.
No problem, let me just sit down at my desktop machine and queue something up on that screen so we can watch it on our other screen.
With Edge Inspect, you load an app onto each device you want to test which allows your desktop machine to push the content on its screen to those devices.
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Intel is betting Silverthorne, slated for next year, will help create a new class of lightweight devices that can perform as well as a desktop machine using significantly less power.
The consumer division of Compaq, the world's leading computer maker, is also working on a desktop machine that folds up "like a book, " keyboard and all, when out of use, says Franklin Sze, senior product marketing manager for Compaq's greater China division.
Downloading vital E-mails and telephone numbers from your desktop machine is a cinch and perhaps best of all, the popularity of the PalmPilot series--International Data Corp. reckons there are more than 1.5 million out there--means that there is a wide variety of free software available on the web.
Start-up Bluestacks has produced a software wrapper that lets the phone apps run on a desktop Apple machine.
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Now there's a case to be made that the Powerbook can in many cases literally become the desktop replacement machine so often discussed in the world of high-end Wintel notebook PCs.
In Davos, Picarro put one desktop-computer-size machine in the Swiss hamlet and another in the surrounding mountains.
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Its 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo and full-size drive is way snappy -- the machine boots from cold to desktop in 26 seconds (granted, it's a clean install without any third party software installed).
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To make sure it was the keyboard not the machine itself, I plugged in a desktop USB keyboard and it worked fine.
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Tech-savvy gamers who may disdain the company on the desktop will be watching closely for any defects that indicate the machine is a lemon.
You access the desktop by clicking on the desktop tile and that transforms the device into a traditional looking Windows machine with the familiar interface and access to your old programs.
The numbers show how serious Ballmer is: Microsoft's Office desktop franchise piles up profits faster than even Google 's online advertising money machine.
It should be noted that earlier this year an Apple machine with a chip running at 667 MHz was the second fastest in Apple's desktop G4 lineup.
At the heart of the personal genome machine is a silicon chip with 21 million transistors on it--the equivalent of a desktop computer circa 1995.
If Google rolled their OS efforts behind Android, and worked on a solid desktop distribution for Android, how many manufacturers would be ready to make a switch beyond a single alternative OS machine in their portfolio?
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The desktop printer for creating a signable copy of contracts, W-9 forms, and NDAs, and the fax machine for transmitting them.
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