Articles on Pcs

Report: 2009 to be PC industry's worst year since dot-com implosion - Jul 15, 2009

Crave At the end of this year, the number of PCs shipped is expected to be lower than the previous year, a rarity for the industry. In fact, it would be the ... Read story »

US asks China to drop "mandatory" special filtering software for PCs - Jun 25, 2009

Crave The US Trade Representative has written a letter to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce asking that the country drop its requirement that all new PCs sold in China have special filtering ... Read story »

Dear PC Industry: Please overclock responsibly - May 4, 2009

Crave Dear PC Industry: During the past two weeks we've tested three desktops with ambitiously overclocked Intel Core i7 920 chips. Two of those have failed Prime95, a publicly available benchmark designed ... Read story »

IDC: Netbook shipments up, expect constrained IT budgets - Oct 19, 2008

Crave Worldwide PC shipments were up 15.8 percent in the third quarter, slightly lower than expected. Just over 80 million PCs were shipped around the globe during the third quarter, according to ... Read story »

PC shipments to decrease 4.5 percent in 2009 - Mar 6, 2009

Crave As bad as the second half of 2008 treated the PC industry, 2009 is shaping up to be even worse. PC shipments worldwide will drop 8 percent in the first half ... Read story »

Study: Low-cost laptops to drive PC market growth - Sep 11, 2008

Crave Turns out, the sky isn't falling on the PC industry. That's according to an update from IDC, an analyst firm that tracks the global PC market. Despite economic sluggishness in the ... Read story »

Verdiem's Edison helps you get green - Aug 17, 2008

Crave Sometimes it's the little things that count, especially when it comes to your carbon footprint. When it comes to PC usage, those little things include turning off your computer when you're ... Read story »

Which PC maker will fare best in a bad economy? - Nov 17, 2008

Crave Commercial and consumer spending on technology is expected to fall off in the next year, and the PC industry is bracing for the impact. Already beginning to feel the effects of ... Read story »

Netbooks a temporary Band-aid on PC industry - Oct 15, 2008

Crave Netbooks like Acer's AspireOne are selling well, but are they cannibalizing less-expensive mainstream notebooks? Despite the volatile economy, the PC industry overall appears on the surface to be doing fine ... Read story »

Dell: Global PC demand "steady" - Mar 27, 2009

Crave 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 ... Read story »

Rumor: HP shutting down Voodoo? - Sep 23, 2008

Crave A rumor is circulating that Hewlett-Packard is closing the gaming PC outfit it bought just two years ago. The report comes from a blog called Techgage, which cites an "insider close ... Read story »

PC shipment growth drops to virtually zero in Q4 - Jan 15, 2009

Crave After several years of seemingly tireless 15 percent quarterly growth, the PC industry hit a wall at the end of 2008. Overall PC shipments worldwide dropped 0.4 percent to 77.3 million ... Read story »

Drowning in a sea of gadgets - Oct 7, 2008

Blogs While pondering whether or not I should spring for a Nokia E90 stemming from some opinions and suggestions in my previous post, it was suggested that I also look into a ... Read story »

Acer patent app reveals MID aspirations - Jan 28, 2009

Crave With so much attention paid to Netbooks lately, the MID category has been largely ignored as a portable device that basically exists for accessing the Internet. But not by Acer, which ... Read story »

Averatec bids adieu to the old-fashioned desktop computer? - Apr 29, 2009

Crave Some giants of the PC industry are just beginning to sell tiny and cheap Netbooks and all-in-one desktops, which have the monitor and processor in the same box. Tae-Hyun "Tiger" Cho ... Read story »

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