Digital City 140: The future of HP laptops and desktops, your TouchPad questions answered (podcast)
This week: With HP's sudden shift away from the PC business, we look at what the future of that company's laptop and desktop products might be; a handy FAQ answers your pressing TouchPad questions, and Joe and Julie try some tech trivia.
Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming
Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications.
"Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times
Expertise I've been testing and reviewing computer and gaming hardware for over 20 years, covering every console launch since the Dreamcast and every MacBook...ever. Credentials
- Author of the award-winning, NY Times-reviewed nonfiction book The Tetris Effect; Longtime consumer technology expert for CBS Mornings
Watch this: Ep. 140: The future of HP laptops, TouchPad questions answered, and Amazon's tablet play
This week: With HP's sudden shift away from the PC business, we look at what the future of that company's laptop and desktop products might be; a handy FAQ answers your pressing TouchPad questions, and Joe and Julie try some tech trivia.
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