Notebooks – Page 50 – Display Daily

Quanta Rises in March, But Q1 is Down

by Tom Allen

Quanta shipped 4 million notebooks in March, rising 48.1% MoM and 11.1% YoY. The company says that its Q1 shipments were 9.9 million – down 22.7% QoQ and 5.7% YoY. Shipments in April and …

Pegatron Capacity Utilisation Falls

by Tom Allen

Pegatron says that its notebook shipments were up between 30% and 40% MoM in March, to 650,000 – 700,000. Q1 shipments were not so bright, falling 20% QoQ and 20% – 30% YoY, to …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 16

by Tom Allen

UK and US customers can now pre-order Apple‘s new 12″ Macbook (Apple Plugs TV, Adds a New MacBook and erm…. Shows Some Watches), which features a single USB-C port. The waiting time is drastically …

Acer Notebooks Win Red Dot

by Tom Allen

Acer has won five Red Dot design awards, four of which are for the company’s notebooks. The Aspire Switch 12, Travelmate P645, Aspire R13 and Aspire V Nitro were honoured, as well as the …

Inventec Eyes APAC Expansion

by Tom Allen

Inventec chairman Richard Lee has said that the company is considering establishing factories in Japan and Singapore this year. The depreciation of the yen against the dollar has led to requests for local assembly …

ABI: Tablets Will Overtake Notebooks in Mobile Category

by Tom Allen

Tablets will overtake notebooks as the largest mobile PC category this year, says ABI Research. According to the firm, tablets will take 52% of the global market by the end of the year, while …

Panel Non-Adjustments to Cause Notebook Oversupply – MIC

by Tom Allen

There are no plans to lower notebook panel shipments this year, says Taiwan’s MIC. Concerns have thus been raised over excess supply and price competition. A YoY comparison puts the panel/notebook unit shipment declines …

Asus Reveals First Chrome Hybrid

by Tom Allen

Four new Chromebooks have been previewed at a Google event in the USA – including the first convertible device running the Chrome OS. Owners of Asus’ new C100 Chromebook Flip can switch between tablet …

Packard Bell Notebooks Available in Russia

by Helen Vince

Acer’s Russian distributor, MICS, is now offering the Taiwanese company’s Packard Bell-branded notebooks throughout the region.

ASUS Transformer Book Chi Available for Preorders

by Helen Vince

ASUS begins accepting preorders for the Transformer Book Chi family from the ASUS Store and select resellers. Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show 2015 (CES), the Transformer Book Chi is a family of razor-thin …

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And Finally… – Vol 22 No 14

by Tom Allen

A man has fixed his dead laptop by baking it in an oven. Sean Buckley, writing for Gizmodo, fixed his device following a recipe from the world’s greatest cookbook: the internet. The actual problem …

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Apple Points the Way for User Interface Advances

by Phillip Wright

Apple’s March 9, 2015 press event disclosed a fairly extensive range of new products and initiatives. As I reported in my prior Display Daily (Notebook Computer Displays Evolve), the new MacBook (available April 10) …