There's never been a better -- or more confusing -- time to buy a computer. That's because computers are remarkably inexpensive, the selection is broad and varied, and an assortment of advances has ...

Shopping for back to school used to mean a trip to Target to buy notepads, binders, pencils, erasers and a “Spongebob Squarepants” pencil box. Now it means a visit to Best Buy, Office Max or clicking ...

It’s a confusing time for computer buyers, and that makes this annual spring buyer’s guide to desktop computers harder to write than usual. Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system is in its last ...

Here we have a U.S. senator, drafting a new law specifically requiring the government to know what a computer will do before it is purchased. And the law would also require the computer to actually do ...

Apple said on Monday it had expanded a program that provides parts and training to independent repair shops to cover its Mac computers. The Apple-1 Computer motherboard was in the first batch of ...

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, if someone wanted to buy a personal computer, they had to make a trip down to a local computer store to physically check out what was available. Once there, ...

In the midst of the economic downturn and with the growing market for smart phones, low-margined netbook computers and cloud computing, Dell is having a hard go of it in its core business of desktop ...