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Lenovo Recalling ThinkPad X1 Carbon Laptops Over Fire Hazard

by Andrew Fenn

Lenovo is voluntarily recalling some of its ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th Generation laptops, in cooperation with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. The company has determined that a limited number of devices may have …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 05| warranty

Microsoft Boosts Surface PC Range

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has released a lower cost version of its Surface Pro notebook which has a Core M3 processor and costs $799, rather than the Core i5 model that costs $999. The base model has …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 05

BETT 2018 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

3M has been at BETT before, but not recently. At the show, it was highlighting the use of its privacy filters which are now available with higher quality. We couldn’t get technical details, but …

Tags:BETT 2018| Infrared Touch| IWBs| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Pcap (Procap)| Privacy| Vol 25 - Issue 04

CES Busy and Bigger than Ever!

by Bob Raikes

CES was a big show with more space than ever before at 2.75 million sq. ft. (255,500 m2) and the total attendance was expected to be over 170,000. The event seemed very busy this …

Tags:5G| Augmented Reality| Automotive| CES 2018| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| PCs| Virtual Reality| Voice Input

E Ink Spreads Its Reflective Wings

by Ken Werner

Although Amazon does not make sales numbers of its Kindle eReaders public, and it is fashionable in some quarters to announce the death of eBooks, it seems as if sales of Kindles (by far …

Tags:CES 2018| E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Lenovo Smart Display

Lenovo Maintains Innovation at CES

by Bob Raikes

We saw Lenovo at a couple of the evening events and also in the Aquaknox restaurant in the Venetian Hotel. At the evening events we got to see the new Lenovo Smart Displays, which …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CES 2018| Convertible PCs| External GPU (eGPU)| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Thunderbolt| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 02

LG ThinQs about the Future

by Bob Raikes

LG Press Event LG held its press event as the first on the day before the main show started and used very wide LED display as the backdrop that looked very good and exploited …

Tags:CES 2018| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Robotics| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Asus and MSI Achieve Half of All Worldwide Shipments in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

According to unconfirmed reports coming out of Taiwan, Asus and MSI shipped around 2.5 million gaming notebooks in 2017, accounting for approximately half of all worldwide shipments. Mid and high-range gaming notebooks were among …

Tags:Acer| Asus| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Asus OLED Monitor is Previewed

by Bob Raikes

Asus had a couple of suites in the Wynn, one covering just the ROG gaming products and the other covering the rest. We started in the main room looking at smartphones, PCs and monitors. …

Tags:Asus| CES 2018| Convertible PCs| Desktop Monitors| DLP Projectors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Notebooks| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Dell XPS13 Boosts Performance

by Bob Raikes

Dell has updated its XPS 13 notebook and will show the new version at the CES event. The new device will be smaller and lighter than the current model but is claimed to have …

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Lenovo Adds Two Monitors and Upgrades ThinkPads

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo plans to show a new UltraHD monitor at CES. The ThinkVision P32u monitor has Thunderbolt 3 and includes a TB3 output to allow daisy-chaining of devices and charging/power supply. There are also DisplayPort …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Digitimes Research: Global Notebook Shipments Grew in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

Digitimes Research has estimated that global monitor shipments reached approximately 120 million units in 2017, down 3.4% year-on-year, while global notebook shipments are believed to have risen to over 150 million units in 2017 …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 01