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HP Aims at the Style-Conscious Rich

by Tom Allen

HP held the launch of its latest laptops not at a technology show, but at a showcase for luxury products in Versailles (HP Drops HDMI and Disc Drive for Thinnest Laptop). The choice highlights …

HP Drops HDMI and Disc Drive for Thinnest Laptop

by Tom Allen

HP announced ‘the world’s thinnest laptop’ at the New York Times International Luxury Conference in Versailles this week: the 10.4mm Spectre 13. It is, as HP reminds us, as thin as an AAA battery. …

Tags:HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 13

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 13

by Tom Allen

Dell and HP have become the latest companies to build machines that are specifically certified as VR-ready, for the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. The Dell Precision workstations will have a set of minimum …

Toshiba Confirms Consumer PC Exit

by Tom Allen

The consolidation of Toshiba’s business (Toshiba Updates Forecasts, Deepens Loss) continues, with the news that the company is withdrawing from the consumer laptop business. Although it had previously been reported that Toshiba would sell …

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 13

by Tom Allen

We now have a specification list for Acer‘s laser gaming projector, the Z850 (Acer Brings Laser to Gaming). Despite being described as ‘mirrorless’, it is in fact a DLP unit – there are no …

Aorus Boosts Framerates While Streaming

by Tom Allen

First shown at CES 2016, notebook brand Aorus has now launched its UltraHD gaming product: the 15.6″ X5S V5. The product uses an IPS panel. Running Windows 10 on an Intel Core i7 processor, …

Xiaomi Delays Notebook

by Tom Allen

Taiwan-based supply chain sources claim that Xiaomi will delay the launch of its first notebook (previously rumoured to be 15″, most recently said to be 12.5″) until Q2’16 – one quarter behind the original …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 11| Xiaomi

Cometa Takes Fujitsu

by Tom Allen

Cometa is now distributing Fujitsu’s PCs, notebooks, displays and other products in the central and southern parts of Italy.

NeoNode Enables Notebooks with Touch

by Bob Raikes

Neonode was on the ST Microelectronics booth and on the Swedish booth (it is based in Stockholm) and was showing a bar system that includes an infrared curtain touch system that can be used …

Tags:Infrared Touch| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2016| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Fujitsu’s Tablets are Adaptable

by Tom Allen

Fujitsu has refreshed its series of Lifebook convertible tablets, and added a new model to its Stylistic detachable range. The firm has focused on security in these new devices (Lifebook T936 and T726; Stylistic …

Vaio Pushes Into US Market

by Tom Allen

Vaio, the former Sony PC unit which was spun off in 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 27) has announced two new models for the US market. As normal, they have already been released …

Asus Raises BYD Orders

by Tom Allen

Asus has apparently taken on BYD, a Chinese OEM, to manufacture 1.5 million notebooks. Sources say that this represents less than 10% of Asus’ total planned notebook shipments this year. It is thought that …