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Apple to host WWDC in early June
Tom Krazit | Mar 27, 2009
The company will host about 5,000 engineers in San Francisco's Moscone West convention center the week of June 8 through June 12. Some Apple developers were starting to get nervous that Apple had yet to confirm the dates in order for them to make travel plans.
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HP finally introduces Core i7 desktops
Rich Brown | Mar 27, 2009
Both Dell and Gateway launched Core i7 PCs in time with Intel's announcement of its new chip family last November. We don't know why HP has waited to make the switch, but with today's announcement of the Pavilion Elite m9600 desktop series, a quad-core Core i7-equipped HP can be yours starting at S$2,999 (US$2,133.76).
We've found Intel's Core i7 chips very fast, especially in the most demanding tasks like consumer-level digital media editing and multitasking. Core i7 has also been hailed as an expensive platform, as Intel is the only source for the necessary motherboard chipset, which also requires DDR3 memory, a pricier standard than more common DDR2 RAM. Those extra expenses are largely why AMD's Phenom and Phenom II, and Intel's own Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad chips are still common in lower-end retail desktops, although it remains likely that Intel will continue to ease pricing throughout 2009 to ensure wider Core i7 adoption.
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Dell: Global PC demand "steady"
Erica Ogg | Mar 27, 2009
Dell founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell appeared optimistic about the PC market during a speech given in China Thursday, according to a Bloomberg report.
Speaking about the global market, he said, "Week on week, the demand for PC sales has been steady." He added that he anticipates "encouraging" demand from US consumers, though he did not provide detail as to why. Research firm IDC said it expects global PC shipments to drop 4.5 percent during 2009.
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Alienware to arrive in Q2
John Chan | Mar 26, 2009
During the launch of the Dell Adamo in China, the company's VP of consumer business Michael Yang revealed that the Alienware lineup will reach the Asia-Pacific region soon.
Alienware started out as a premium manufacturer for high-end gaming systems. It was acquired by Dell in 2006 and still makes a range of high-performance desktop and notebook computers for gamers. Its business has remained mainly in the US, but an earlier report indicated that the company has intentions to appear in many other countries in the later part of 2009.
Gamers who can afford Alienware's expensive and over-the-top machines will not have to wait that long as Yang told journalists that it would be available throughout Asia Pacific in Q2 this year. No other details were announced, so we don't know which notebook or desktop models will be made available. But it's already the end of Q1, so we can expect to hear more regarding this very soon.
Lenovo separates Think, Idea product groups
Erica Ogg | Mar 26, 2009
Lenovo announced an internal overhaul, reorganizing both its regional and product groups.
Think products, like the iconic ThinkPad and the desktop ThinkStation, will be separated from the Idea group, which makes the IdeaPad and IdeaCentre PCs. The Think group will focus on commercial customers as well as high-end small and medium businesses (SMB). The Idea group will target consumer and SMB transactional customers.
The reorganization also spawned two new business units
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