Reports of 19% decline in Western European PC market show structural change
As if we needed telling, a new Gartner report shows a steep decline in the PC market in Western Europe. A “PC” in this context includes Macs but excludes smartphones and what Gartner called “media...
View ArticleSanity prevails at HP which is keeping its PC division
HP has announced that HP is keeping its Personal Systems Group, its PC division. “HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG. It’s clear after our...
View ArticleMoving Windows with its applications: too difficult
I have just replaced my PC – well, if you count new motherboard, new CPU, new hard drive, new RAM as replacement, though it sits in the same case – and faced again the question of what to do with my...
View ArticleWill Windows 8 save the PC? Gartner reports 8% year on year sales decline
Gartner has reported on third quarter worldwide PC sales and they do not look good: At 87.5 million units, they have declined 8.3% compared with the same quarter in 2011 HP is down 16.4%, Dell is down...
View ArticleHow many clouds is too many? AcerCloud announced in Las Vegas
Acer has announced its AcerCloud in the run-up to CES in Las Vegas. This is a service that spans mobile devices, PCs and the internet, the aim being that pictures, documents and multimedia are...
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Building a cheap PC, and why it still beats tablets and laptops for value
I thought the Google Nexus tablet was good value, and compared to an Apple iPad or most other tablets out there it is, but for sheer capability on a budget a desktop PC has it beat. Needing a cheap...
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This may be why your computer is crashing
I was asked to look at a PC which was misbehaving. Sometimes it worked, but increasingly it was freezing or crashing. Sometimes the hard drive would corrupt and needed Windows repair before it would...
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Amazon.com sales stats snapshot shows why Microsoft is reinventing Windows
Anyone who questions the need for Microsoft’s radical reinvention of Windows need look no further than Amazon’s sales stats. I was on Amazon.com checking out the specs for Samsung’s new Ativ slate, and...
View ArticleSpectre and Meltdown woes continue as Intel confesses to broken updates
Intel’s Navin Shenoy says the company has asked PC vendors to stop shipping its microcode updates that fix the speculative execution vulnerabilities identified by Google’s Project Zero team: We...
View ArticleRumours of a new Mac Mini? It is about time.
Bloomberg is reporting rumours of a new Mac Mini in time for the back-to-school market this year. The source of the rumours is claimed to be “people familiar with the plans”. Apple is also planning the...
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