Computer buyers now have many more options for purchasing personal computing devices, including the Microsoft Surface tablet. (Nigel Treblin/Getty Images) Forget about the gigahertz. Don’t worry about ...

Ever notice how there are a lot of acronyms for computer stuff? API, BIOS, CPU, DOS (not to be confused with DoS), DRAM, GPU, HDD, RAM, ROM, and a whole lot more... It can get downright overwhelming.

Ross Donald has sent three kids to college. And a fourth starts this fall. That makes the physician from Ketchum, Idaho, something of an expert in buying computers, having bought one for each of his ...

Can you guess what devices are in the images below? The images come in pairs. The first will be a close up. Try to guess what you are looking at before scrolling down to the next one, which will show ...

This week I got an email from a reader asking for the best and most economical way to back up his computer. That’s a very good question. The best way to back up your computer is to choose a method ...