New tablets from Acer, Dell and Lenovo look an awful lot alike.
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What Surface? Dell Venue 11 Pro Takes On Microsoft’s Hybrid
Dell’s latest Windows tablet has an optional slim keyboard cover and lots to configure.
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Michael Mace on the PC Industry’s Woes
The story of Dell’s proposed buyout tells us a lot about the challenges of the PC industry in general.
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Another Reason for Dell’s Decline: The Shrinking Importance of PC Customization
A world that doesn’t need built-to-order PCs doesn’t necessarily need Dell.
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I Remember Dell, Back When It Was Dell
Once upon a time, Michael Dell’s company was as good at what it did as any business on the planet
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More Proof That the Future of Tech Is Unknowable
ZDNet’s Ed Bott has an entertaining post on tech research giant Gartner and its predictions and advice for the tech industry. Such as its 2006 proposal that Apple get out of the computer business and license OS X to Dell:
“Apple should leverage its close relationship with Intel and team up with Intel’s closest ally, Dell,” the report
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Origin EON11-S Review: 11-inch Ultraportable Gaming, Alive and Well
A couple years ago, 11-inch laptop gaming was all the rage. Dell led the charge with the Alienware M11x, a netbook-style 11.6-inch laptop that weighed just 4.5 pounds, featured surprisingly high-end gaming specs, and was updated …
TechnologizerCES 2012
Dell’s Little Big Ultrabook Looks Like a Winner
The more Ultrabooks that got unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show, the more convinced I became that it’s silly to discuss them as if they were a coherent new class of portable computer. No two manufacturers seem to agree …
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Ultrabooks: Bringing Sexy Back to PCs
Once upon a time, the PC had no rivals. Back in the era before smart phones, tablets, Internet-savvy HDTVs and other gadgets-come-lately, it was the most important technology product in the world, and therefore inherently …
Intel’s Big Double Push for 2012: Ultrabooks and Smartphones
This could be a big, busy year for Intel. While the processor giant has reportedly earmarked more advertising dollars for its ultrabook initiative than it’s spent promoting any other project since 2003 – remember Centrino? – …
Dell’s Macbook Air Rival Coming Soon
The Macbook Air rivals are coming.
It started with Samsung’s Series 9, a pair of ultra-thin laptops cased in aircraft-grade materials and running on Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge platform. As you might expect, pricing caused a wince at $1,200 for an 11-inch model and $1,650 for a 13-inch model.
Next up is Dell, which will do its best …
Can Dell Get Tablets Right with a 10-Inch Streak Pro?
In the game of Android tablets, Dell has two strikes against it.
Strike one was the original Dell Streak, a 5-inch tablet remarkable for its lack of identity. Was it an oversized phone, or a diminutive tablet? Dell’s press releases suggested the latter, but the only way to reduce the Streak’s shocking $550 price tag was to sign up for …