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1. Traveling with the MacBook Air Butt Kicking Dell Adamo 9.99

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   Opinion Butts are kicked dot com I have been using a Dell Adamo 9.99 for several weeks now in its pre-production form.   I’m at EMC’s analyst event this week in Boston which meant I had to spend ...

2. Best Buy sells Acer notebook for $250

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... that it will also offer deals on products like the Samsung netbook, a machine that comes with Windows 7, and Dell Limited Edition netbooks, individually numbered and designed by artists. Best Buy will ...

3. VMWare tempts Mac users with "ultimate" Windows 7 experience

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   ... VMware Fusion 3 user, I don't need to – it just works," said Puckett. "At work I use a Dell laptop running 64-bit Windows 7. At night and on the weekends, VMware Fusion 3 makes it possible for me to ...

4. SSDs inch toward the desktop

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Wednesday, 21 October 2009

   Opinion: There's been a steady flood of news about the emergence of solid state drive (SSD) systems in mainstream products. Samsung has a 64GB miniSATA SSD about half the size of a business card; Dell ...

5. Dell plays coy with anorexic notebook

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 13 October 2009

   You might need to squint to see it: Dell is readying a laptop less than a centimeter thick. You might need to squint to see it: Dell is readying a laptop less than a centimeter thick. The Adamo XPS ...

6. Dell Latitude Z charges wirelessly

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 29 September 2009

   Dell has unveiled its Latitude Z laptop. The high-end machine - which offers wireless docking and inductive charging - weighs 4.5 pounds with a four-cell battery. Dell has unveiled its Latitude Z laptop. ...

7. Dell unveils five Alienware gaming rigs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 23 September 2009

   Dell has introduced five new Alienware gaming machines. The rigs - which were jointly developed with Alienware - include four overclocked liquid-cooled desktop systems and a 15-inch laptop. Dell has introduced ...

8. Wal-Mart offers $298 laptop

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 23 July 2009

   ... attract the cash-strapped as part of its back-to-school push. It is selling Dell Inspiron laptops for $398 in colors ranging from pink to purple to aqua. Analysts are saying that while the deal could ...

9. We can explain everything, Microsoft Russia says

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 10 June 2009

   ... Acer, Asustek, Dell and Samsung were pre-installing Windows XP and couldn't buy notebooks from these firms without it being installed. The CEO said that Microsoft Russia will cooperate with the investigation ...

10. The clock is ticking for Apple’s next big thing

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    ... been afraid to set its own agenda, and in doing so has avoided the brutal sameness of commoditization that has victimized so many of its competitors (Dell, are you listening?) But the two often intersecting ...

11. Dell's Studio 14z laptop targets gamers and students

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 28 May 2009

    Dell has introduced a new Studio laptop powered by NVIDIA's GeForce 9400M graphics processor. The GPU, which delivers up to five times faster graphics performance than Centrino 2 notebooks, significantly accelerates ...

12. First Android netbook to cost $250

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 27 April 2009

    ... other than just cellphones in 2009 and 2010. Reportedly, Dell and HP are both considering use of the Google Android OS in upcoming netbooks and smartphones. If Android can prove to be a reliable operating ...

13. Two worlds collide: Can PC companies build smartphones?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Friday, 27 March 2009

    ... of those companies, Dell, has already tried and failed to crack the handheld market. Sure, its Axim-branded devices were basic, disconnected PDAs. But they exemplified the kind of thinking that most large ...

14. Will Apple lose its power to drive market trends?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 24 March 2009

    ... trends the company sets. Last week I wrote about the Dell Adamo, which has its roots in an Apple idea. And, of course, it is not hard to see how the iPhone is clearly the cell phone every other cell ...

15. Dell's Adamo: A sign of hope for a better tomorrow

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 17 March 2009

    ... exactly something we all are looking forward to. But the Dell Adamo is the first notebook in a long time that is as much a statement as it is a PC. It stands as a counterpoint to the doom and gloom ...

16. Hitachi fined for notebook LCD panel price fixing, sold them to Dell

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 11 March 2009

    ... regarding its sales of the LCDs to Dell -- which proved the company was adhering to the all-agreed-upon prices. Last year the DOJ began announcing the companies involved in the price fixing scheme. ...

17. ChangeWave: MacBook sales up in next 3 months, HP and Dell down

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 19 February 2009

    ... Apple laptop sales will increase in the next 90 days, according to the report, whereas HP and Dell portables will drop as consumers opt for cheaper netbooks. When it comes to desktops, most prefer Dell ...

18. The race to kill the MacBook Air is on

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... as Dell preps a challenger. Dell shifted its teasing campaign into a higher gear ahead of the launch of this highly anticipated MacBook Air-killer, dubbed Adamo Thirteen. Chicago (IL) - Although MacBook ...

19. Dell pitches MacBook Air rival, Sony enters netbook market

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 24 December 2008

    Expect IT to begin 2009 with two major announcements in the notebook segment: Dell continues to work on its image and give Apple's MacBook Air a run for its money with a new ultra-thin notebook called ...

20. Dell greens its packaging

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 17 December 2008

    Dell announced plans to reduce desktop and laptop packaging materials by approximately 10% worldwide, increase sustainable content in cushioning and corrugate packaging by 40% and 75% of packaging components ...

21. Dell ships laptops with self-encrypting hard drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 09 November 2008

      Seagate is more aggressively pushing its full disk encryption (FDE) hard drives and said that McAfee is now providing enterprise management level tools. Dell is the first manufacturer to ship ...

22. Dell offering White Spaces connectivity with future Laptops

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 06 November 2008

      Dell said it will be adding a new option for wireless connectivity in future laptops. The company plans to install radio chips that will be capable of connecting to the unused U.S. television ...

23. Dell goes Chinese and strikes gold

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 24 October 2008

      Analyst Opinion - This week I was a few days  in China as Dell’s guest. Steve Felice, Dell’s top executive there, Michael Dell and a number of the top players have spent some time explaining ...

24. Dell to debut Instant-On next week

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 22 October 2008

      Dell announced to customers in Shanghai that the company will be offering a first look at its new instant-on system for Latitude laptops sometime next week. Without booting their computers, users will ...

25. Is Steve Jobs right on Blu-ray and HDMI?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 15 October 2008

    ... of setup and penetration. It is on virtually every HDTV currently shipping and it exists on a number of monitors as well. For instance, I just started using Dell’s Crystal Monitor, which only has an HDMI ...

26. Asus announces quad-core gaming laptop

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... on the chassis. If Asus is able to get this out soon, then it will have beaten Alienware, Voodoo and Dell to the punch with a genuine quad-core laptop.  Dell teased their quad-core M6400 back in ...

27. MontaVista Linux drives Dell's quick-boot feature

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Friday, 03 October 2008

    CEO Rusty Harris revealed MontaVista's role developing the quick-booting, ARM-based processor subsystem expected to ship this year in select Dell laptop models. The "Latitude ON" feature aims to give ...

28. Mac sales may hit record highs despite decline in consumer spending

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 15 September 2008

    ... they're now more likely and only 1% said less likely. Rivals from the PC camp saw less impressive survey results. 28% of respondents said they are planning on buying a Dell desktop or notebook (down from ...

29. Dell mini-notebook offers Linux for a premium

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 04 September 2008

      Dell today announced its first mini-notebook that squarely aims for a market that has been created by products such as the OLPC or Asus EeePC. It comes in a stylish package with an 8.9” screen ...

30. Sony recalls 73,000 Vaio TZ notebooks

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 04 September 2008

    ... and affected every major notebook manufacturer worldwide – including Dell, which recalled 4.2 million computers, 526,000 Lenovo systems 340,000 Toshiba laptops, 287,000 Fujitsu notebooks, 90,000 Sony Vaio ...

31. 5 million iPhone 3Gs and 3 million Macs this quarter, analysts estimate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 22 August 2008

    ... and Gartner rank Apple as the third-largest computer vendor in the U.S., following HP and Dell. On Wall Street, Apple’s market cap is close to Google's market cap.   Student Monitor polled 1200 ...

32. Dell Studio laptops get Mike Ming treatment

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    Dell has begun offering its recently introduced Studio laptop series covered with art created by Brooklyn-based artist Mike Ming. Five different designs are available for the Studio 15 and 17 models. ...

33. Shhh. We have a product but it’s a mystery.

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 July 2008

    ... Apple has hefty margins by computing standards: over 30 percent compared to less than 20 for Dell, and just under 25 for HP. So, they must have something up their sleeve, something worth cutting into their ...

34. Dell channels old school Apple with a twist of Linux

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Sunday, 29 June 2008

      Analyst Opinion - Before the introduction of Dell’s Studio Laptops, you really had only two choices when you were looking for a new PC. You could choose Apple and get a really good user experience, ...

35. Do sustainable PCs exist?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 26 June 2008

    ... be a difficult decision. We have looked at a sample of three PCs described as sustainable - from Dell, Enano and Everex: Current green PC all boast many similar characteristics, but there are substantial differences ...

36. Mirror, mirror on the wall: Who is the greenest of them all?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 17 June 2008

    ... technology field. The pack is led by Apple, which was described as “green” by 21% of respondents, and is followed by HP (21%), Microsoft (21%), IBM (20%), Intel (20%), Sony (20%) and Dell (19%). If we ...

37. The five big technology trends of 2008

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Friday, 06 June 2008

    ... direction to all-in-one computers seems to be clear at HP, Dell, Sony, and Gateway. They all have been launching products; though Gateway’s offering didn’t does that well.  The most interesting is ...

38. Who needs D-SUB, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort? USB rocks!

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 May 2008

    ... the experience with the device was flawless. Owners of a Macbook Air can use this part to get a second or third monitor. And what is even more interesting: Our screenshot was taken on a Dell 2407WFP-HC ...

39. Dell aims to cut power consumption of PCs by 25%

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

      Dell wants to become the “greenest technology company on the planet” and part of that goal will be to cut the power consumption of its desktops and laptops by 25% by 2010, the company said today.    ...

40. Dell/Alienware, HP/Voodoo, Gateway/FX: Branding power

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Monday, 12 May 2008

      Analyst Opinion - TG Daily recently took a look at the new Dell XPS 730 H2C and spoke about an interesting notion on how this new system was invading Alienware’s territory. Given the proliferation ...

41. Dell's monumental snafu renders UK Vostro laptops useless

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 02 May 2008

    When Jake Gordon from UK bought his new Dell Vostro 1310, he had no idea that his $1289 purchase will actually rebound in a spectacular way.  Jake discovered that his keyboard comes with a letter ...

42. New Dell notebooks to offer EV-DO and HSDPA wireless broadband connectivity

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    Dell today said that its next-generation notebooks will integrate Qualcomm’s Gobi chip, which can connect users to both EV-DO and HSDPA mobile broadband networks. According to the company, the technology ...

43. Dell says SSD failure rate rumors have “no basis in reality”

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 21 March 2008

      Dell is hitting back at reports that its solid state drive laptops are experiencing 20-30% return rates.  According to Lionel Menchaca, Dell's Chief Blogger, return rates of those laptops are ...

44. Acer rolls out new 16” and 18” Blu-ray notebooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 12 March 2008

    ... but this product always had a limited reach. Now that the company has grown into the third largest PC manufacturer worldwide, behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell, it was just a matter of time until the company ...

45. Dell tough: A $4000 notebook you can drop and pour water on

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 04 March 2008

    No, Dell’s idea isn’t new: There is already something like a Panasonic Toughbook, but Dell says its new Latitude XFR630 is faster and offers more service. Round Rock (TX) – No, Dell’s idea isn’t new: ...

46. Is the Consumer Electronics Show on its last leg?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Thursday, 10 January 2008

    ... call for the show organizers.   Show high points: From Wireless TVs, to products that would upset Steve Jobs   The two best monitors I saw were from Dell/AlienWare they had a wrap around ...

47. Rob Enderle: 2008's Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Microsoft and Linux

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 28 December 2007

    ... too. :)  Thank you. ---------- Analysis:  2008's Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Microsoft and Linux by Rob Enderle Introduction Looking ahead to 2008 we are in for one amazing ...

48. Why Dell’s World of Warcraft PC and Best Buy strategy make sense

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 11 December 2007

    ... World of Warcraft laptop, but about Dell opening the doors to Best Buy. Analyst Opinion - Sometimes vendors do something outrageous, so outrageous that you have to stop for a moment and recognize that ...

49. Lojack helps catch laptop thief

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 30 November 2007

    Brunswick (IN) – A now unemployed school janitor was caught with his employer’s laptop thanks to a LoJack tracking device.  Police say 43-year-old Darrell Eller was working as a janitor ...

50. Does AMD’s Spider catch Intel’s Penryn in its Web?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 20 November 2007

    ... wish list for folks in the US and that indicates that volume should be very strong. While we often watch Apple, Dell, HP, Acer (Gateway), and Lenovo in this segment, the big fight is always between AMD ...