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IDC Revises PC Forecast Downward

by Tom Allen

PC shipments will fall 7.3% YoY in 2016, according to an updated forecast from IDC, followed by progressively smaller declines through 2017, and stabilisation in 2018. The new forecast is roughly 2% lower than …

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 23

by Milos Pavlovic

Asus‘s Designo MX34VQ monitor (Asus is Firmly in Phablets) has a wireless charging pad on the stand, using the Qi standard. Apologies, we missed this when the monitor was announced. BenQ will reveal a …

Detachables Will Drive Return to Tablet Growth

by Tom Allen

Tablet shipments will fall for the second straight year in 2016 – down 9.6% YoY, says IDC. The firm expects tablets to decline in 2016 and 2017, with a slight rebound in 2018 and …

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First 17″ Convertible Coming From Dell

by Tom Allen

Dell showed off a convertible PC, the Inspiron 17 7000, which appears to take cues from Lenovo’s Yoga products. It has a 360° hinge and touchscreen as standard. Available in 13″, 15″ and 17″ …

Asus is Firmly in Phablets

by Tom Allen

Asus used its press conference to introduce several new products, including a robot called ‘Zenbo’. Set to be launched at the end of September for $600, the robot is a home service unit that …

KN1 Microsoft Highlights Importance of Display Interaction

by Bob Raikes

The first of the main SID keynotes was given by Steven Bathiche of Microsoft who said that things had changed a lot since he attended his first SID event in 2001. He keeps coming …

Acer Switches Gears

by Tom Allen

Acer showed off five new products: three notebooks, an UltraHD monitor and a home cinema projector. Its announcements began with the ‘ultra-affordable’ Switch V 10 and Switch One 10. As the names imply, both …

PCs and Tablets Move Towards Hybridisation in Europe

by Tom Allen

Ultraslim convertible and detachable products enjoyed significant growth in the Q1’16 PC and tablet market in Western Europe, says IDC. These products took 18.4% of total consumer PC and tablet shipments and 21.9% of …

HP’s Pavilion Learns From Spectre

by Tom Allen

HP has released a slew of new products, slimming its convertible and laptop PCs while also raising battery life. The new Pavilion PC range includes the x360 convertibles and the more conventional Pavilion laptops. …

Samsung’s 2016 Phones and Tablets Now Available

by Tom Allen

Several small Samsung product announcements were made this week. We have combined them into a single article. The TabPro S professional tablet (Samsung Uses LED in Modular TV Concept), is now being shipped worldwide. …

Apple Beats Microsoft in Detachables

by Tom Allen

The global tablet market fell almost 15% YoY in Q1’16. A combination of the traditional low first quarter and a lack of consumer interest conspired to bring shipments down to 39.6 million units, says …

Hybrids Replace Tablets in Enterprise

by Tom Allen

Juniper Research has published a whitepaper (http://tinyurl.com/za8auhw) discussing the role of hybrid (detachable) devices in the workplace – which are gradually replacing tablets. As well as this, the firm looks at phablets’ cannibalisation of …