Rob Enderle

As I wrote last September, the Microsoft Duo is a very different smartphone. I tend to think of it now as more of a smartbook. There have been several times I’ve tried to stop using it and go back to a more common smartphone design only to come back to the Duo because I miss […]

There are a handful of companies that I know very well. Intel is one of them, and, for some time, their biggest problem was a culture that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. For instance, when I interviewed there, I turned the interviewing manager in for abuse. (I have extraordinarily little tolerance for abusive […]

One of the most iconic advertising campaigns in the 2000s was the Apple Mac vs. PC campaign.  It was a campaign that stood largely unopposed and made fun of Bill Gates and the PC platform, doing substantial damage to the dominant personal productivity platform’s perceptions. At the time, I wondered why Steve Ballmer, who ran […]

Keynote talks come and go, and often they are more misguided sales pitches than actual keynote talks. That wasn’t the case at Microsoft Ignite this year, when CEO Satya Nadella spoke about a more significant change (it’s worth watching) in 30 minutes than most others talk about over several years of keynotes. He spoke about […]

Crypto-miners have become the bane of graphics processor-card companies. Both AMD and NVIDIA have complained about miners who buy their cards in bulk, resulting in retail shortages. When they ramp up manufacturing, they dump those cards back on the secondary market, resulting in massive inventory problems. Well, NVIDIA finally had enough, but they realized that […]

Virtually every laptop currently in the market was designed before the pandemic. I get to see many laptops long before they are released, and, to date, I have yet to see a laptop specifically designed for how we work now. Think about it: Before the pandemic, portability was essential, long battery life was critical and […]

I’m putting a question mark (others didn’t) on the title because what you and I have as work-from-home space is quite different. For instance, I have a custom desk that can handle a monitor of any size. Still, my wife likes to work out of the kitchen, and her space is limited both horizontally and […]

The Lenovo X1 Carbon and X1 Fold represent very different devices that should appeal to very different users. Interestingly, the most revolutionary of the two products, the X1 Fold, may be better for the pandemic world we have now than the more traditionally designed X1 Carbon. On the other hand, the status aspect of the […]

Two fascinating transportation trends are emerging and haven’t yet, but will be, positively impacted by the pandemic: autonomous cars and autonomous flying cars. The latter is misnamed because autonomous flying cars actually are autonomous personal flying vehicles. Few have any intention of ever driving on roads, and those that do are either not autonomous or […]

When looking at Intel’s earnings, you’d almost think we weren’t in a pandemic. The company set record revenue, exceeding guidance by a whopping $2.6 billion and returned $19.8 billion to shareholders, who could likely use the financial help. [Editor’s note: See additional analysis at the end of this article from Patrick Moorhead.] But the handoff […]