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Acer is Massively Mobile

by Tom Allen

Acer is never an official part of CES. Instead, the company just ‘happens’ to have a suite in a hotel somewhere in Las Vegas in early January! Isn’t it weird how these coincidences just …

Lenovo Deluge Led by OLED Notebook

by Bob Raikes

We met up with Lenovo twice at the show – once during the CES Unveiled event before the show started and also at the Aquaknox restaurant in the Venetian that the firm had rented …

PCs Down, But Replacements Will Boost Demand

by Tom Allen

Global PC shipments will fall 10% YoY in Q4’15, which will weigh annual shipments down to -10.3%, says IDC. Short-term effects, such as the strong US dollar, depressed commodity prices and existing inventory have …

PCs Down, But Replacements Will Boost Demand

by Tom Allen

Delays Expected for Microsoft Surface

by Tom Allen

Sources in Asia have said that ‘some’ Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 orders have been delayed until Q1’16, due to shortages of Intel’s Skylake processor. Supply chain sources predicted 100,000 shipments for the …

Tablets Fall, but Detachables Are Bright Spot

by Tom Allen

Tablet shipments worldwide will decline 8.1% YoY in 2015, says IDC, totalling 211.3 million units. This forecast was made after three consecutive quarters of declining global shipments. However, despite the challenges facing the overall …

Lenovo Develops Hybrid Workstation

by Tom Allen

Lenovo has unveiled several new mobile workstations at Autodesk University 2015, including a convertible flagship called the Thinkpad P40 Yoga. It is designed to negate the need for creative professionals to use two systems: …

Fujitsu Competes With Apple & Microsoft

by Tom Allen

Competing with the iPad Pro and Surface Pro, Fujitsu’s Stylistic R726 is another large hybrid tablet, with a 12.5″ display, pull-away keyboard and up to 12 hours of battery life. Like its competitors, the …

Panasonic Produces ‘World’s First’ Rugged Hybrid

by Tom Allen

A fully rugged, convertible laptop has been introduced by Panasonic – which says that it is the world’s first such unit. The Toughbook 20 features the reliability of the Toughbook brand and the flexibility …

Tablet Adoption Slowing, but Hybrids are ‘Opportunity’

by Tom Allen

A survey by Gartner has found that 17% of consumers in mature markets intend to buy a tablet in the next 12 months. 19,000 consumers were surveyed in early summer, across the UK, USA, …

Apple Wins Patent for Detachable Display on Notebook

by Norbert Hildebrand

Microsoft recently announced its Surface Book as a brand new idea in mobile computing and the first notebook class device that transforms from a notebook computer into a tablet by detaching the display unit …

Surface Book is Hard to Fix

by Milos Pavlovic

iFixit has as given the Microsoft Surface Book a 1 out of 10 score for repairability. The display is bonded and the battery is also glued in, although the SSD is replaceable. http://tinyurl.com/ovzcf8d