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Links Week Ending 18th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. LG 2022 TV line-up How to …

Tags:Digital Signage| HFR - High Frame Rate| LED| LG Electronics (LGE)| MicroLED| Outdoor Displays| PCs| Samsung| Smart TV| Smartphones| TVs (TV Sets)| Xiaomi

Notebook shipments to plateau for next 5 years

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Digitimes Research said that it believes that the surge in demand for notebooks, driven by the pandemic, may not be sustainable as it reported shipments of 247 million units in 2021, …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Notebooks| PCs

Apple Enjoys the Holiday Quarter

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple published its Q4 and full year results and the firm hit a new record of $123.9 billion in Q4, up 11%, with $34.6 billion in profit. In a call, Tim …

Tags:Apple| Financial Data| PCs

Links Week Ending 21st January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. (quite a few this week as we …

Tags:Advertising| Automotive| Blu-ray| Covid-19| CPUs| Events| Mediatek| Mergers & Acquisitions| PCs| Roku| Smart TV| Streaming Video| Vizio| Wi-Fi

Windows 11 Needs Correct Settings for Gamers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Gamers have been looking carefully at Windows 11. It seems that the new Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) system, introduced in Windows 10, but in operation by default in Windows 11, can significantly …

Tags:Game Playing| PCs| Windows

Links Week Ending 30th July 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Take A Deep Look At The Incredible …

Tags:BenQ| Broadcast| Dell| Desktop Monitors| Environment| Game Playing| Germany| HP Inc| Italy| Mergers & Acquisitions| Outdoor Displays| PCs| Philips| PlayStation| Pricing| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| sony| TVs (TV Sets)| Xiaomi

Brits have a need for speed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The reliability of displays are, of course, taken for granted. Still it was good to see that in a survey of UK Google Searches on PC problems, displays didn’t feature at …

Tags:PCs

ViewSonic Reveals New Gaming Monitors with Nvidia Reflex Technology

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ViewSonic has new 24.5″ (XG251G – FullHD 360Hz) and 27″ (XG271QG QuadHD 240Hz) monitors that have G-Sync and support for Nvidia Reflex technology. They are both certified to DisplayHDR400 and cover …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| GPUs| PCs| ViewSonic

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Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reported that Apple is planning to use its latest processors to improve its position in the PC market and new MacBook Pros could be here in the summer in 14″ …

Tags:Apple| Notebooks| PCs

Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Geekwire was able to persuade IDC to confirm its PC data by OS that showed that in 2020, Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide for the first time over the year, although this …

Tags:Apple| Chromebooks| Operating Systems| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| PCs| Windows

More Than 75% of All Streaming Time in Q4 Was on Big Screens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Despite the long term trend towards consumption of video on mobile devices, Conviva’s State of Streaming Q4 2020 report shows 75% of all viewing time via connected devices was watched on …

Tags:Consoles| PCs| Smart TV| Smartphones| Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video| tablets