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...find out how Obama can save himself before it's too late, I consulted the reigning geek of our time, John Hodgman, who plays PC in the Apple ads and wrote a new book called More Information Than You Require. Hodgman thinks that while the Urkel effect hurt Al Gore and John Kerry, America's lack of desire to drink even a malty Belgian beer with Obama will actually help him. "After eight years of jocklike bluster, Obama's technician's calm seems extra-attractive," says Hodgman, who believes that jocks vs. geeks has replaced red vs. blue...
Market-research firm NPD Group dug into the numbers and determined that, on average, you'll spend up to $800 more on an Apple than you would on a comparable PC laptop. And in most cases, PCs come with more bells and whistles, like Blu-ray drives and more ports for special external hard drives and video connectors. So what kind of sucker would be willing to pay the Apple...
Likewise, while some of the PC laptops I tried have two separate sets of mice on board--in case you prefer one type over the other--Apple's pointing system has evolved on the new laptops so that the (only) mouse consists of a single glass touch pad. Push the entire pad down to click, or configure it so a double tap does the same...
...VIDEO GAME Dead Space When a derelict mining ship won't respond to radio contact, it's usually a bad sign. In this top-notch, incredibly bloody sci-fi horror game (PS3, Xbox 360 and PC), the bad guy is an alien life-form that reanimates the dead people on board into zombies. You shoot them...
...desktop computers. Shapiro points to Intel, whose new microprocessors are designed to use 40% less energy to generate 40% more power than the previous generation of chips - just 18 months old. Dell itself has rolled out a new desktop that is up to 70% more efficient than the average PC - an attractive quality for server farms, the computer banks that make up the backbone of the Internet, which have grown increasingly energy hungry in recent years. Reducing energy consumption does a lot for carbon emissions - but even more for the balance sheets of IT companies. "The total cost of powering...