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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 …

Tags:Asus| BlackBerry| Convertible PCs| Google| HDMI| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Panasonic| Rugged Displays| Samsung| Smartphones| Smartwatches| tablets| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 16| Wearables

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 …

Tags:Acer| Awards| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| PCs| Vol 22 - Issue 15

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 …

Tags:APAC| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Production| Vol 22 - Issue 15

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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 …

Tags:Chromebooks| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 15| Worldwide

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 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 22 - Issue 15| Worldwide

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 …

Tags:Asus| Chrome| Chromebooks| Google| Haier| Hisense| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 22 - Issue 15

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.

Tags:Distribution| HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Russia| Vol 22 - Issue 14

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 …

Tags:Asus| Notebooks

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 …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 22 - Issue 14

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) …

Tags:Apple| Force Sensing| Gesture Recognition| Haptics| HMI| Multitouch| Notebooks| Touch| Touch Interfaces| Touch Pads| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Mobile Panel Prices Trend Down in March

by Tom Allen

IHS DisplaySearch has released its panel price data for March. Downward trends were seen in almost every market segment. Due to slow demand for notebook and tablet PCs, G5, G6 and G8 LCD fab …

Tags:IHS DisplaySearch| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 13

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 13

by Tom Allen

Acer‘s C910 Chromebook (Acer Iterates on 15″ Chromebook Design) has been released in the USA. The C910-54M1 has a 15.6″ display, 1920 x 1080 resolution, Core i5 processor and eight-hour battery life. It costs …

Tags:Apple| Convertible PCs| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Samsung| Smartphones| tablets| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 13