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Businesses Warned Against Consumer-class PCs
News Businesses have been warned they risk higher costs if they buy cheaper consumer PCs in favour of business-class systems. Some businesses buy consumer-class PCs and laptops for company use due to their lower initial cost, but analyst Gartner has...
[December 4, 2007, 14:09]
Consumer Satisfaction With PCs Drops
News It probably means for the economy at large that we will see a slowdown in consumer spending [next quarter] and consumer demand as well," he said. That is indicative of consumer satisfaction in general, which increased a mere one percent since the...
[August 14, 2007, 9:47]
UK Waits On Toshiba Desktops
News Toshiba is set to fire its first line of consumer desktop PCs into the US market tomorrow but the UK will not see them until spring 1997 as the Japanese giant is currently carrying out market studies for Europe.
[September 9, 1996, 11:47]
Intel Backpedals On Ambitious Wi-Fi Plans
News Intel has snuffed out a plan to provide consumer desktop PCs with built-in Wi-Fi access points -- the latest wrinkle for the chipmaker, which has faced a number of product setbacks this year. But while Intel still believes in the concept of...
[September 28, 2004, 16:55]
Intel, Linksys Link Consumer Gadgets
News Intel and Linksys are aiming to bridge the gap between PCs and consumer electronics. The device, Linksys' Media Navigator, is based on a reference design from Intel and allows consumer-electronics gadgets to connect to a network and access files on...
[February 20, 2003, 12:22]
Microsoft, Panasonic Sort Media Mess
News Microsoft and Panasonic are trying to get PCs and consumer-electronics devices to play well together when it comes to digital media. Consumer-electronics devices have traditionally differed from PCs in the way they display and open digital files on...
[October 18, 2002, 8:01]
Corel Knocks Microsoft Off HP Desktops
News Hewlett-Packard is booting Microsoft Office software from its Pavilion line of consumer PCs in favour of software from Corel, as more PC makers consider cheaper Microsoft alternatives. Currently, Pavilion PCs come with a choice of the full version...
[August 27, 2002, 9:10]
Chipset From Via Set To Slash PC Prices
News Via Technologies will move to knock up to 10 percent off consumer PCs as early as Christmas, with its upcoming KM133 chipset for AMD processors it announces Tuesday. Via claims manufacturers will be able to shave as much as 10 percent off the...
[November 28, 2000, 15:44]
PC Makers Ready XP, But Optimism Fades
News Computer manufacturers have begun taking orders for consumer PCs featuring Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows XP, and plan to get the first systems in customers' hands by 24 September, about one month before XP's official launch.
[September 19, 2001, 15:28]
Toshiba Mini-notebooks Reach 60GB
News Toshiba on Thursday upped the capacity of its hard drive line for mini-notebooks, tablet PCs and consumer electronics. Using this new drive would allow manufacturers to roughly double the storage capacity of their smallest laptops and other...
[October 3, 2002, 15:10]
HP Restricts Repair To Dealers
News Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that only those who sell their consumer PCs will be able to service them. We are going to limit warranty service authorisation to those retail partners that sell our consumer PC products and will de-authorise all...
[July 3, 2003, 13:44]
Micron To Build Athlon-based PCs
News Micron currently sells AMD's Athlon and Duron chips as well as Intel's Pentium III and Pentium 4 chips in its Millennia line of consumer PCs. Many PC makers offer Advanced Micro Devices' low-cost Athlon chip in consumer lines, but Micron...
[January 3, 2001, 7:36]
Intel Takes Pentium 4 On Road Again
News Intel on Tuesday added to its fleet of mobile Pentium 4 processors for consumer-oriented notebook PCs. The chipmaker normally would pitch its Pentium M processor and Centrino chip package for notebooks, but it recently created the mobile Pentium 4...
[September 24, 2003, 12:20]
Intel Planning Portable Media Device
News Intel aims to boost consumer interest in PCs and its processors by announcing components for a portable personal video player on Monday. The Santa Clara, California-based company even had a division that concentrated on developing consumer...
[July 24, 2002, 7:19]
Singapore Ignores Tablet PCs
News Despite debuting with much fanfare last week, initial consumer response towards tablet PCs has been lukewarm. For the latest on everything from consumer electronics to your rights online, see the Personal Technology News Section.
[November 11, 2002, 11:32]
PocketDrive: A System For Mobile Control Of Desktop PC And Its Applications Using PDAs
White Papers Off late, consumer electronic devices and PCs are inevitable parts of the daily life. One has already universal remote control devices for controlling consumer electronic devices. Similarly, the user may control the desktop and laptop PCs and their...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Mitsubishi Plans Retail Hook For Micro Businesses
News The market for consumer PCs has slowed down and the cost of developing specific consumer models with easy-to-use front-ends for learning to use the system, telephony and other features is high. In terms of systems, that will mean a stripping away...
[March 11, 1998, 14:20]
New PCs Restrict Copying
News Consumer craving for expensive PCs has not been great, given the economy and other factors. Microsoft introduced the new version of Windows, code-named Freestyle, during January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
[September 4, 2002, 8:55]
Dell Brings Back XP Amid User Demand
News Amid significant customer demand, the computer maker said on Thursday that it has returned to offering the older Windows version as an option on some of its consumer PCs. We heard you loud and clear on bringing the Windows XP option back to our...
[April 20, 2007, 17:22]
Q&A: Toshiba's Seabrook On Desktop PCs
News Foir the last 18 months, Seabrook has been formulating his plan and in that time has developed some interesting ideas about the consumer sector and what it takes to win in business PCs. Fundamentally, we came to the decision that it's almost...
[June 3, 1997, 15:04]
