In the beginning, there was Apple, and its little computers for individuals were good.
The little computers in our hands that now give us access to all the world's information via the Web will become little computers in our brains giving us access to all the world's information.
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The problem has stemmed from the way giants in the Wi-Fi hardware business, like Cisco Systems and 3Com, build their antennas: They're like little computers, with a lot of networking and security intelligence in the box.
Even though it is fashionable to say that Dell is overpriced, the company is still the star in personal computers and its what people who know a little bit about stocks and a little bit about computers are buying.
Computers have little difficulty putting data files back together again in the right order, but speech is altogether trickier.
But very little of what modern computers do would have been considered impossible, given enough computing power, a half-century ago.
The programming language and its associated software libraries are designed to allow software developers to write programs that can run on otherwise incompatible computers with little modification.
So later this year, vPro desktop computers will roll out with little stickers much like the ones that now say Centrino or Intel Inside.
Sure, it might now be the internet limitations which make Opera popular in Belarus, instead of it being the computers themselves that motivated my little business.
"Peers are faced with working in overcrowded conditions, with limited access to computers and telephones, and little or no space for staff, " the Constitution Unit report said.
But I'm sure they'd move the fancy computers out and we could get a little space.
Switching between the two presents little difficulty for people -- but it drives computers crazy.
Even with the advent of virtual realities and talking computers, the solution is sometimes a little more basic.
Grid solutions can only be used in problems that can be broken up into millions of tiny parts, where tons of small computers can each chew on their own little piece of the puzzle.
As computers get cheaper, many owners have come to view them as little more than appliances like televisions, and are unconcerned about protecting them from hackers.
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Aereo takes broadcast signals for free from the air with thousands of little antennas, recodes them for Internet use and feeds that to subscribers' computers, tablets and smartphones.
That's a little puzzling, considering that stronger-than-expected sales of iPods and Macintosh computers helped the company crank out a 73% rise in earnings.
There's still no word on when we might be able to buy some of the stuff for our home computers, or when it'll be able to hold something a little more impressive (like maybe a whole post), but we're guessing it'll be well into the next decade before your Three 6 Mafia MP3 collection starts ridin' spinning electrons that don't stop.
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While Apple typically updates its personal computers each fall, for the past several years Apple has done so with little fanfare.
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