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Continuing trends in computing — and your choices

Posted on December 18, 2023 at 02:43 CST by Ben Myers • Comment in the Forums

BEN’S WORKSHOP

By Ben Myers

Let Windows 11 and other major trends be your guide to greater productivity, reliability, and security.

Computer hardware and software continue their relentless advances — mostly progress, sometimes a hiccup. Paying attention to the various changes in our world of computing can save you time and money — and, after all, time is money. These trends may influence your near-term buying decisions, as our annual two-month Black Friday buying spree morphs into the January White Sale of unsold gear.

These trends are the distillation of my experience based upon hundreds of computers making a stop in Ben’s Workshop along their way — whether from a factory or an auction house, as a trade-in, or simply for repair — and then into the hands of people using them or off to my convenient e-cycler.

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.51.0, 2023-12-18).

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