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Google Chromebook slows, hinting at flagging COVID PC boom  

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Chromebook makers have been ‘slashing’ their orders for components by ‘at least 20%’. That could mean 10 million or so fewer Chromebooks in the market this year. One …

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Links Week Ending 13th August 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. 2021 State Of The Mobile Baseband (I’m …

Tags:Apple| China| Chromebooks| DVB-T & T2| HP Inc| India| Italy| Market Data| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Qualcomm| Smartphones

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Acer Still Gaining from the Pandemic

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer said that it had its highest revenues for seven years in June at $1.07 billion, up 16.9% year on year and up 21% on May. Q2 revenues were up 21.7% …

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Acer Still Sees Strong Chromebook & Gaming Sales

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer reported that it May sales revenues were the best for seven years at $897 million, up 22.9% year on year. YTD sales were $4.38 billion, up 36.6% year on year. …

Tags:Acer| Chromebooks| Financial Data| Game Playing

It’s Still the Early Days for Foldable Device Software

by Bob Raikes

After yesterday’s dig down in the weeds of colour gamut measurement, I’m going in the other direction today with some thoughts about devices and operating systems, prompted by recent changes by Apple in its …

Tags:Android| Apple| Chromebooks| Foldable Devices| Notebook Shells| Operating Systems

Global notebook shipments to surpass 62 million units in 2Q21

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Digitimes Research reported that notebook sales (excluding those with detachable keyboards) were down 8.7% sequentially in Q1 2021 to 57.51 million as good demand from education and gaming helped a smaller …

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