A friend came by the other day. He is planning to buy a new laptop and he wanted my advice. He’s an avid gamer and wants to get the fastest machine he can afford. He travels several months out of the ...

Apple Computer has recently received praise for its iTunes music service. But its new Power Mac G5 computers, which went on sale in stores Monday, will probably have a much larger impact on the world ...

Is a 64-bit computer in your future? With all of the hype surrounding 64-bit processors, you probably assume that my answer would be an unequivocal “yes-and pretty darn soon, too!” But put aside the ...

IBM is preparing a 1.8-GHz PowerPC processor, its fastest to date, that will run both 64-bit and 32-bit applications, the company announced today. The PowerPC 970 processor, due out in the second half ...

Q: Will 64-bit computing eventually replace 32-bit, or will they continue to coexist? Can files be shared and backed-up between 32-bit and 64-bit computers? Should consumers be targeting 64-bit for ...

Raspberry Pi is now shipping the Raspberry Pi 3 computer, which at the same $35 price as its Pi 2 predecessor packs a more powerful 64-bit CPU, and for the first time, has built-in wireless ...

Microsoft has announced it is releasing a beta version of Windows XP for AMD’s new 64-bit processor. That’s both good news and bad news for AMD. The good news is that Microsoft is showing significant ...

The Raspberry Pi is arguably the world's most successful and accessible computer platform that anyone can program. The Raspberry Pi foundation has now launched the Pi 3, an upgraded model for the same ...

Sipeed’s new LicheeRV is a tiny computer-on-a-module featuring a 64-bit RISC-V processor, 512MB of RAM, a microSD card for storage and a USB-C port for power and/or debugging. While the tiny computer ...

In the wake of Tuesday’s iPhone event, you’ve likely heard the news that iOS 7 and its core apps have been ported to 64-bit, and Apple’s new iPhone 5s now has a 64-bit “A7” system-on-chip (SoC) inside ...

Intel Corp. (www.intel.com) formally announced the release of its long-awaited Itanium 64-bit processor on May 29 - together with support from Windows hardware offerings from about 30 vendors, and ...