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1. Atom Hackintosh netbooks crash and burn

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... supported but that doesn't mean there won't be a modded kernel around the corner," noted StellaRolla. Indeed, a participant on the MyDellMini forum claims to have discovered one possible workaround by ...

2. Analysts spout crap, charge megabucks

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Friday, 16 October 2009

   ... a mystery as to where the figure of almost two thousand bucks a seat to upgrade to Windows 7 comes from. Especially when a quick glance at Dell’s site tells us we could buy any number of quad core, 4GB ...

3. AMD aims at simplicity for the tech generation

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Wednesday, 09 September 2009

   ... on various aspects of the industry as it is. The venue was Vinopolis, in Borough Market in Bermondsey. Sobon was previously director of marketing for Dell, and has overall responsibility for server, workstation, ...

4. HP announces AMD 6- and 12-core workstations

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 01 July 2009

   ... is available for $7800. Dell is, according to our knowledge, the only major vendor to sell a dual-socket W5580 workstation. A Precision T5500 system equipped with two W5580 processors currently sells ...

5. Apple tax on the latest Mac gear: 40 percent

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 05 March 2009

   ... that seems mostly in sync in terms of price vs specs. In fact, the updated all-in-one comes ahead of similar all-in-one systems from Dell and HP - both in hardware specs and, surprisingly, price. On ...

6. Apple gets another secret Intel processor

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 03 March 2009

   ... server vendors have already received plenty of these chips from Intel, none of them has announced a product with Nehalem Xeons. In fact, I cannot remember that any other major vendor such as Dell or HP ...

7. UPDATE 2: Mobile WiMAX market quadrupled in Q3'2008

   (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

   Monday, 12 January 2009

   Redwood City (CA) - A recent publication by Dell'Oro Group claims the worldwide mobile WiMAX infrastructure revenues quadrupled in Q3'2008 as compared to one year previous. While Dell'Oro's Senior Analyst ...

8. Acer launches bargain quad-core notebook

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 29 December 2008

     Acer has set its focus on Dell and Hewlett-Packard in 2009: Already the third-largest PC manufacturer in the world, the company reportedly wants to surpass Dell – and pricing appears to be main ...

9. Nvidia's Tesla deskside supercomputer returns as a PC

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 17 November 2008

     PC vendors such as Dell will soon begin selling desktop supercomputer built around Nvidia’s Tesla floating point accelerators. Priced around $10,000, these PCs may look innocent, but they pack ...

10. Dell refreshes iMac clone XPS One

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 30 October 2008

      Dell has upgraded its all-in-on system XPS One with a larger LCD and new core hardware components. Prices for the new systems start at $1699. Round Rock (TX) – Dell has upgraded its all-in-on system ...

11. 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 ...

12. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... Visual and Media Businesses. Dell announced AMD-based systems. AMD demonstrates its quad-core x86 server processor based on the Barcelona core and establishes Shanghai Research and Development Center to ...

13. High-end coprocessors: An overview

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 September 2008

    ... in July, 2007.  It contained no coprocessors and was simply a host of 1200 Dell server blades.  Their newly added Lincoln machine will go live in October and is comprised of 192 Dell server blades ...

14. Abe Lincoln and Tesla to reside at NCSA in October

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 11 September 2008

    ... the latest edition to their supercomputing family was just getting ready to be launched.  Abe, a sustainable 61 Teraflop (90 peak) cluster comprised of 1200 Dell PowerEdge 1955s blades, housing 2400 ...

15. Apple battling Acer for the third spot in US computer shipments

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 21 July 2008

    ... third-largest PC vendor in the US? Dell remains top US vendor with 31.9% share of the market (IDC: 32%), up from 29.7% (IDC: 29.6%) from a year-ago quarter. The company shipped an estimated 5.2 million ...

16. Lenovo intros stylish desktop PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 30 June 2008

    ... IBM team actually has created a stylish PC that has all the genes to compete head-to-head with the top 3 PC vendors HP, Dell and Acer (Gateway). Research Triangle Park (NC) – Lenovo announced its first ...

17. Playstation 3 processor powers the world’s first Petaflop supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 June 2008

    ... performance, compared to HP with 22.4%. Dell, SGI and Cray follow with 5.4%, 4.4% and 3.2%, respectively. Looking back in history, the supercomputer ranked at #500 would have been listed at position 200 ...

18. Alienware relaunches flagship ALX desktop with 4 GHz quad-core processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 22 May 2008

      Given Dell’s recent product launches in the high-performance desktop PC segment, Alienware may be in the midst of an identity crisis, as Dell’s house brand was matching almost all specs of Alienware’s high-end ...

19. 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 ...

20. Update: Apple upgrades iMac, gets Intel’s Montevina CPU early, sort of

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 April 2008

    ... company's Santa Rosa platform. We can’t imagine that HP and Dell are happy about the fact that Apple can  officially ship a Core 2 Duo processor that matches most of the specifications of an unannounced ...

21. AMD aims to increase desktop processor sales with business platform pitch

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 27 April 2008

    ... a triple- or dual-core right away and stay with a dual-core only if power consumption matters. Several vendors, including HP, Lenovo and Dell, will be offering AMD’s business platform in their PCs. Prices ...

22. Dell jumps on the Barcelona bandwagon

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 16 April 2008

    AMD said Dell is now offering five quad-core Opteron server platforms. The long-awaited chip has also finally received VMware certification. Read the complete story here.  ...

23. AMD leads Formula 1 supercomputer championship

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 11 April 2008

    ... F1 Team: Dell, Albert2, 512 sockets, 2048 cores (Intel Xeon) Vodafone McLaren Mercedes: Silicon Graphics Altix, 512 Sockets, 1024 cores (Intel Itanium 2) Red Bull Renault: IBM, 512 sockets, 1024 core (upgrading ...

24. AMD launches tri-core assault at Intel dual-core CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 26 March 2008

    ... We will get back to that further down in this article. X3 processors, by the way, have been shipping for some time now. Back in February, we received information that Dell actually was already prepared ...

25. Unreal creator Tim Sweeney: "PCs are good for anything, just not games”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 09 March 2008

    ... PC you are using. Sweeney: My work computers are Dell workstations. Currently, I have a dual-CPU setup, dual-quad cores for a total of eight cores, and 16 GB of memory. We at Epic tend to go to the high-end ...

26. Dell rolls out ESA gaming PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 26 February 2008

    Dell is the first OEM to offer a desktop PC that follows the guidelines of Nvidia’s Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA). Round Rock (TX) – Dell is the first OEM to offer a desktop PC that follows ...

27. Exclusive: Dell set to introduce AMD Tri-Core Phenom

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 16 February 2008

    Still think that Dell is dropping AMD? Think again: TG Daily got to the bottom of the Dell/AMD rumors and discovered that Dell is far from dropping its AMD line-up. In fact, there will be a surprise in ...

28. Dell dumping AMD?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 09 February 2008

    Dell has slimmed down its product line using AMD processors, triggering a wave of speculation that Dell may actually be phasing out its partnership with AMD. The CPU manufacturer however claims that what ...

29. Dell goes against HP, IBM with new blade servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 January 2008

    Dell has updated its blade server portfolio and claims that its latest M-series eclipses its competition in power consumption and power efficiency. Round Rock (TX) – Dell has updated its blade ...

30. Dell announces Penryn workstations

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 27 November 2007

    Dell has begun shipping two new “Precision” workstation models based on Intel’s recently announced 45 nm processors.  Both the T5400 and T7400 are dual-socket systems that are available ...

31. 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 ...

32. Gateway offers sub-$1000 quad-core PC in retail stores

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 11 October 2007

    ... system will have a Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU, Intel’s G33 chipset, 3 GB of memory, a 500 GB hard drive, a GeForce 8500GT graphics card and a DVD burner for $960 (without monitor). Dell is offering a ...

33. Gateway launches “Quad HD” desktop LCD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 04 October 2007

    ... at first sight. It matches the size of previously introduced high-end LCDs from Apple and Dell (HP has stopped offering its 30” LCD) as well as their maximum resolution of 2560x1600 pixels, which ...

34. Microsoft enhances search engine

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 27 September 2007

    ... number of sites it seeks when pulling up information from a search query, according to MS corporate VP Satya Nadella. It also has begun the process of better understanding different variations of the ...

35. Skulltrail shows off some 45nm Penryn prowess

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 20 September 2007

    ... MT/s FSB.  It was able to run CINEBENCH and 3D Mark and, as you can see, the score is northing to shake a stick at.     Two Dell laptops were also shown.  These were identical except ...

36. The AMD Barcelona back story

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 13 September 2007

    ... it was a very powerful statement.    Michael Dell advocates AMD This was probably the most powerful, in terms of AMD support, presentation of the night.   I have rarely seen any ...

37. AMD's Barcelona introduction: A celebration without fireworks

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Monday, 10 September 2007

    ... Dell chief marketing officer Mark Jarvis. Yes, there were a lot of people that congratulated AMD; it was a continuous flow of messages about great new products and one of the most comprehensive shoulder-padding ...

38. TG Daily Coverage: AMD's Barcelona launch event

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 September 2007

    ... is aiming for #4 shortly and would like to eventually get to #3. The quad-core Opteron will be a critical component in Sun achieving this goal, he said.   Dell Mark Jarvis, Dell's chief ...

39. UPDATE: AMD announces Barcelona quad-core processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 September 2007

    ... processor was approximately 3 years. Barcelona will be shipping this month, AMD said. First systems are scheduled to be available from HP, Dell, IBM, Sun as well as Appro, Egenera, Gateway, Rackable ...

40. NCSA: A look inside one of the world's most capable supercomputer facilities

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 01 July 2007

    ... comprised of 1200 Dell PowerEdge 1955s blades. Each blade sports two 2.33 GHz Quad-Core Xeons (Clovertown core) on a 1333 GHz FSB operating in Intel64 mode (true 64-bit computing). That's 2400 physical ...

41. Computex Wars: AMD vs. Intel vs. VIA - and some unexpected implications

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 08 June 2007

    ... strength and Intel was on the defensive. This year, while AMD continued to show penetration into protected Intel accounts like Dell and Toshiba, Intel hit back hard with announcements that showcased its ...

42. Sun introduces first Intel servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 June 2007

    ... a strategic problem for the company: The fact that AMD still has not announced its Barcelona quad-core Opteron put Sun at a disadvantage against competitors who offer x86 quad-core servers, including Dell. ...

43. Analyst opinion: Dell’s and Gateway’s gaming strategies compared

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 25 May 2007

    Dell and Gateway are getting more serious to capture market share in the PC gaming market. Rob Enderle has a look at both strategies and the products behind it.When I first started out covering PCs, Dell ...

44. Analyst opinion: Intel kicks laptops into high gear

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 11 May 2007

    ... right now.   Great new hardware If you haven’t noticed the Hardware OEMS are starting to invest heavily in industrial design and you’ve already seen big changes in Dell and HP consumer ...

45. Quad-core PCs starting to play with mainstream market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 May 2007

    ...   Gateway FX-series desktop. Click here to see more images of the PC.     A quick look over to the competition reveals that Dell has not yet adjusted its PCs for the new price of the Core ...

46. How AMD plans to sail through the "perfect storm"

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 April 2007

    ... customers such as Dell and Lenovo. Pricing pressure remained intense, as Intel “did everything in its power to protect its monopoly,” Meyer said. Delayed products, especially in the GPU segment, ...

47. Gateway adds Blu-ray drive, OC graphics card to enthusiast PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 19 April 2007

    With Dell and HP having established a presence in then enthusiast PC market, the third largest PC maker in U.S. is getting more serious about computers that deliver more than just the basics. Irvine ...

48. PC trends 2007

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Friday, 13 April 2007

    ... It’s also a Blame Magnet!!  I’m thinking that may not be a good sign… Dell Dell has tripled their design resources and is making a hard run at the consumer market. By the end ...

49. Analysis: AMD loses dominance in U.S. retail channel to Intel

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 10 April 2007

    ... enough processors to all of its customers during the Christmas quarter and gave the larger customers such as Dell preferential treatment. “Resellers were certainly inconvenienced in Q4,” Brookwood ...

50. Best Buy sends Geek Squad to Second Life

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 05 April 2007

    ...  Second Life plays host to over a dozen virtual corporate spaces, including Sun Microsystems, Dell, Philips, and even the National Oceanic and Aeronautic Administration (NOAA) and the Swedish governme ...