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Steve Jobs and the limits of genius

Steve Jobs and the limits of genius

...co-worker appeared, fresh off the plane from San Francisco, clutching a beige box. We plugged in the keyboard and — there's daring — the mouse... Read more

6 October, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

The Weekly Round-Up: Doomsday for desktop PCs, jargon busting and iPad vs Kindle

...in the world of business, right? Everybody in an office needs a beige box on their desk, and that will never change, will it? Bad... Read more

16 September, 2011 by The Round-Up

Smartphone, tablet or PC - which will you be tied to in 2016?

...for the PC, or will you still be working with the same beige box in another five years' time - that's the PC we're... Read more

23 August, 2011 by silicon.com staff

Big Blue backs beige boxes

...exit the business. CEO Sam Palmisano has shown mixed feelings about the beige box. He's stated that IBM is solidly behind the PC, but... Read more

19 November, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

Comdex '99: PC makers look beyond the beige box

Personal computers that come in the form of a large beige box are an endangered species. Or so believe a lot of the... Read more

18 November, 1999 by John Spooner

Death to the 'standard' PC: Let's scrap the beige box NOW

...cousin. So it is with desktops. Apple bravely tried to buck the beige box trend with its slimmed-down, curvy iMac, which was launched in... Read more

28 October, 2002 by silicon.com staff

PC industry ridiculed by academics and researchers

...for tech stocks in the late 1990s and other issues. But the beige box sitting in millions of office cubicles and living rooms also deserves... Read more

14 March, 2001 by Rachel Konrad

The secret history of the PC

The little beige box that changed the world is 20 years old... Twenty years ago... Read more

10 August, 2001 by Pia Heikkila

Intel denies its customers are dull

...innovation engine kind of picks up and that you do see the beige box makers going, 'You know, maybe we could do something that looks... Read more

12 January, 2006 by Ina Fried

Early Internet switch becomes museum piece

...and the rest of the world. "It may look like just a beige box today, but in 200 years it will be seen as a... Read more

30 November, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Apple Power Mac G5

Apple has unveiled its fast, sleek 64-bit Power Mac G5. Get our early impressions of this hot new desktop PC. Read more

24 June, 2003 by Molly Wood

In the PC world, smaller is getting better

...PC landscape. While they may not be about to replace the typical beige box any time soon, PC makers say that many large businesses are... Read more

1 January, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

Microsoft's millions, problematic programs and wicked wireless

News Schmooze: Redmond may make a lot of money, but why doesn't it translate into more secure software? Also, good news for the mobile phone industry Read more

18 October, 2002 by News Schmooze

'Celebrating' the PC's one-billionth birthday

...need a computer, but the days when this necessarily means a large beige box under your desk are fast approaching their end. Sure, the appliances... Read more

3 July, 2002 by Matt Loney

Crusoe discovers the desktop

...and MA80 are similar to the iMac in that there is no beige box -- the processing and input-output capabilities are built into a flat... Read more

9 May, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

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