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Apple's WWDC keynote in photos
News The 15-inch MacBook is scheduled to go on sale on Monday, alongside an upgraded 17-inch version. These are the configurations for the 15-inch MacBook. Schiller went on to launch a new version of the 15-inch MacBook Pro.
[June 10, 2009, 15:35]
Apple 17" MacBook Pro Graphics Firmware
Downloads This firmware update is recommended for all 17-inch MacBook Pro (Early 2009) users and addresses the appearance of vertical lines or distorted graphics on the notebook display.
[March 25, 2009, 20:34]
Media and MacBook updates in spotlight at Macworld
News He unveiled updates to many Apple products, including a 17-inch MacBook Pro and DRM-free songs in iTunes. Schiller also introduced a new 17-inch MacBook Pro. The 17-inch MacBook Pro announced on Tuesday has the glass trackpad used on the latest...
[January 7, 2009, 15:59]
UK's Microvitec pictures 13.3-inch LCD monitor
News Separately, in October the firm will ship a 13.3-inch TFT external display that it claims can be viewed at an angle of 140 degrees and equals the viewing area of a 17-inch CRT monitor. The £499+VAT unit is likely to sell on the street at about £500...
[July 30, 1996, 15:09]
Apple laptop gets jumbo screen
News On the two-year birthday of the high-end Titanium PowerBook, Apple on Tuesday upped the ante by introducing a model with a massive 17-inch display. To achieve that goal, the company created a new PowerBook that is one inch thick, slightly thinner...
[January 7, 2003, 19:51]
Apple unveils the eMac
News Aiming to boost its fortunes in the education market, Apple on Monday unveiled the eMac, an all-in-one computer similar to the original iMac, but built around a 17-inch flat-screen monitor. A 17-inch version of the iMac has been rumored to be under...
[April 29, 2002, 13:36]
Acer widens notebook screen
News Acer is geared up to unveil on Wednesday the Aspire 1710, a notebook with a 17-inch screen and a relatively low entry price of $1,499 (£811). For a review of the 1705 SCi, an earlier Acer model with a 17-inch screen, click here.
[March 3, 2004, 10:35]
Congratulations Mr Schiller
Blog Given the meagre new offering of Macworld this year- two software updates and a new 17 inch MBP unibody enclosure - I really think good old Phil did rather well. And you know what for all he marketing showmanship I am not sure Jobs was that missed.
[January 7, 2009, 11:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Apple does its bit for schools by launching the eMac, a testosterone-fuelled old-style iMac with a 17-inch CRT screen. Monday 29/04/2002 Lord, it's huge! Weighing in at some 50lbs, the thing looks from a distance like its old curvy sibling, but the...
[May 3, 2002, 17:43]
Apple's answer to the netbook is a large screen ipod touch ?
Blog With the rumour mill cranking up to tomorrow's keynote I really hope Apple have given Mr Schiller something of interest to WOW the crowds with, and apart from the updated Mac Mini and maybe a unibody 17 inch Macbook, one of the most interesting...
[January 5, 2009, 10:49]
Compaq offers free monitor deal on Deskpro
News Systems based on Pentium Pro or Pentium II processors come with Compaq's V70 17-inch monitor, saving the usual £510 purchase price. Pentium and Pentium MMX models ship with a V50 or P50 15-inch screen, saving £305.
[August 5, 1997, 9:19]
Samsung announces 'largest ever' organic LED display
News Samsung SDI, the Korean giant's display division, has announced prototypes of a 17-inch active matrix organic light emitting diode (OLED) display. It will consume no more power than a 15-inch display and be a third of the thickness of existing LCD...
[May 18, 2004, 18:35]
Intel sees sub-£1K PII PCs
News Documents from the firm suggests that it sees 233MHz systems with 32Mb RAM and 14-inch monitor starting at about £999 + VAT and 17-inch monitor systems from name-brand vendors clocking in at £1,249 + VAT.
[October 27, 1997, 15:14]
Nuggets: More space, less cash
News UK monitor stalwart iiyama wants you to ditch your pokey little 15-inch monitor and upgrade to something a little easier on the eyes. So it's offering its latest 17-inch monitor at a price to tempt you to do just that.
[January 5, 2000, 10:55]
ADI to build £10.5m UK monitor factory
News The factory will concentrate on the production of 15 inch and 17 inch monitors although ADI is not ruling out the possibility of making14 inch screens for both ADI and its OEM market. The UK announcement follows the launch of a similar factory in...
[December 5, 1997, 13:52]
IBM flat-screen the largest commercial display yet
News The IBM-badged 16.1-inch colour flat-screen monitor (around £5,000 + VAT) can display 16.7 million colours at 1280 x 1024 resolution and has a choice of cards which allow it to support output from either a PC's monitor port, or an RS6000 or Sun...
[November 20, 1996, 14:28]
IBM phases out all-in-one PC
News It incorporates a 15-inch display. The desktop, which combined a PC and a 15- or 17-inch flat-panel display into a compact package that could be mounted on a swinging crane arm, at one time symbolised the company's effort to revitalise its PC...
[July 1, 2002, 12:03]
Dell to offer giant screen notebook
News Dell will be the first big player to release a notebook PC with 15-inch screen - due this Autumn. The huge LCD will support XGA resolutions of 1280x1024 pixels and offer a viewing area just an inch less than an orthodox 17-inch CRT desktop monitor...
[July 14, 1998, 6:32]
Fujitsu launches three-way system attack
News The ErgoPro e 452/120 (£1,040 + VAT) is an entry-level 120MHz-based Pentium model with 8Mb EDO RAM, 850Mb hard drive and 14-inch monitor. At the high-end, the ErgoPro xs 453/200s (£3,290 + VAT) is a 200MHz Pentium-based PC with 32Mb RAM, 3.2Gb hard...
[October 4, 1996, 15:15]
US Report: SGI to boost performance of workstations and cut prices
News An O2 workstation based on the chip and including a 32-bit graphics subsystem, 1MB of secondary cache, 64MB of memory, a 9GB SCSI hard drive and a CD-ROM drive will sell for $14,495 (£8,840) with a 17-inch monitor.
[May 21, 1998, 9:32]
