Hardware

For Advisors, All-In-One PCs May Be A Good Choice; Power, Touch-Screen And Cool-Factor In One Neat Package

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With Windows 8 allowing the touch screen features you love on tablets to be used on desktops, all-in-one computers are likely to become popular in advisor offices.   If you make presentations to clients in your office or conference room, doing it on a 27-inch touch screen instead of a tablet can be impressive, although it remains to be seen whether the touch screens will make the users of desktops more productive.

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Help Your Computer Keep Its New Year's Resolution!

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As with the start of every year, we have made resolutions that we hope to keep to make this year better than the last.  Your computer also has made resolutions to be a clean machine and needs your help to carry them out.  

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Review Of Dell's XPS 12 Says It's The Windows 8 Laptop-Tablet Convertible To Beat

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Dell's XPS 12, which has a touchscreen that flips on its axis, is one of the  new breed of "convertibles" -- laptops that do double duty as tablets, may well hit that convertible sweet spot for many.

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Surprisingly, Touchscreen Laptops Don't Suck, Reviewer Says

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The new generation of Windows 8 laptops, ultrabooks, and tablets will be a paradigm change because these devices will combine a touch screen with a mouse for navigating your apps. The late, great Steve Jobs used to say that touchscreens would not work well on devices that stand up and Apple has stayed away from touchscreens on laptops, but Microsoft clearly think Jobs had it wrong. 

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Microsoft’s New Surface Pro Tablet May Make You Dump Your Laptop And iPad; For Advisors On Microsoft OS, Surface Pro Is A Big Deal

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The new Microsoft Surface Pro tablet is likely to make PC laptop users rethink their computer hardware. If you use a laptop, you may be able to replace it with the Surface Pro. Since Surface Pro runs on the Windows 8 operating system and runs the Office suite, you can use it as both a tablet and laptop. Surface Pro will bring a real change in computer hardware options to advisors.

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