Wired writer Leander Kahney suggests that it is an homage to Macintosh computers, as "The Mac's built-in speech recognition software responds to the command 'OK Computer,' as an alternative to hitting an OK button onscreen".
It will also enable you to purchase and download software from the Playstation Store using your computer, as an alternative to downloading using your actual device.
Sony's Vaio notebook computers offer an alternative to Apple's laptops.
The 8in and 10.1in Galaxy Tab 3 computers offer an alternative to the firm's existing 7in model.
Pokki, which also has deals with Acer and Lenovo, sits on newly shipped computers, providing an alternative to the new Windows Store.
Specifically, we examined the willingness of discharged ED patients to use portable touch-screen computers as an alternative to traditional "paper and pencil" or telephone data collection methods to report postdischarge pain.
(D-Wave Systems, a Canadian company that caused a stir when it announced a thousand-qubit computer last year, uses an alternative approach to quantum computing that isn't suitable for code-breaking).
One professor's husband, a computer expert, recommended an alternative program.
So in many ways, the world of computer games is an alternative model of digital life – a more creative, even contemplative, style of interaction.
His "World of Wires," seen this month at the Kitchen in New York, follows the descent of one brave computer techie into an alternative, digitally simulated universe.
