Others argue that since devices like the iPad can't do quite as much as a traditional computer, it's not a PC.
[inaudible] I really love my life and it's like now I think that it's really, for me as a computer scientist it's just a great place to be.
However, as a portable computer, it's not very portable at all.
Unlike most iPod docks, the Audio Dock also doubles as a computer speaker (it's made to live more on the desktop than the countertop).
"We've looked at this building so many times as a computer drawing, it still feels a bit like being in a computer drawing now," the chief executive, Simon Thurley, said.
In 1971 the Intel Corporation produced the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, which was powerful enough to function as a computer although it was produced for use in a Japanese-made calculator.
Given Dr. Spertus's stature as a computer scientist, it might seem incongruous that one achievement she is especially proud of is having been named "Sexiest Geek Alive" in a Silicon Valley pageant in 2001.
Play-To will send a downloaded video file to your TV, but while your computer is doing that, its own display can be used normally, so your laptop can still be used as a computer while it sends video to your television.
As a computer company, it sold two main types of PCs: one aimed at consumers, and one aimed at businesses in the form of Apple III.
It used to be associated with radio manufacturing until it was resurrected by a group of Israeli investors in the 1980s, who correctly guessed that as a computer brand it would be mistaken for Hewlett Packard (nyse: HPQ – news - people ).
