Docking Stations Archive
In one sense, laptop docks have been with us almost as long as laptops themselves. Even back in the early 90s, you could buy a docking station specific for your machine. This allowed you to get the benefits of both a laptop and a desktop computer. You could travel with your laptop by itself. Then, when you were at your desk, you could click into …
If you go back just a few years, there was no reason to use a smartphone with an external monitor. To begin with, the displays were very low quality. Blowing up a crummy, low-quality picture is just going to get you a bigger, low-quality picture. But modern smartphones are nearly on par with laptops when it comes to display quality. You can even watch and …
Over the past few decades, computers have simultaneously gotten smaller and more powerful. For the most part, this trend has done a lot of good. Back in the early 90s, laptops were big, fat, and heavy, and they weren’t terribly powerful. They could easily give you a cramp if you used them for long periods, and they tended to get warm. As in, “burn your …
As technology advances, electronics keep getting smaller and smaller. For example, the first hard drive was shipped in 1956, and held only 5 megabytes of data. And when we say “shipped”, we’re not just using a generic term. It was the size of two refrigerators, and had to be moved with a forklift. Today, we have three-terabyte hard drives and tiny flash drives that can …
When tablet computers were first released, many people responded with skepticism. What’s wrong with your laptop or your smartphone? As it turns out, tablets fill an important niche. They’re more compact and portable than a laptop, but more powerful and easier to read than a smartphone. But sometimes, you want the look and feel of a stationary computer. You want a better view of the …
