After swallowing the bitter pill of defeat in the protracted high-definition DVD format war with Sony, Toshiba may be preparing to launch its own Blu-ray player, a Japanese newspaper reports.
– Technology company Toshiba, which lost a protracted high-definition DVD
format war with rival Sony (Toshiba backed HD DVD
technology, but Sony’s Blu-ray player prevailed) is getting ready to produce
Blu-ray players of its own, according to the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri. The
newspaper didn’t cit…
Apple competitors HP, Dell and Acer pull away from Apple as a down economy makes netbooks, smaller, less expensive notebooks more attractive to consumers. Apple has repeatedly stated it has no interest in the netbook market.
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Reports from research firms Gartner, Inc. and IDC show
Apple, Inc., the company whose products are synonymous with style and
substance at a price lagging behind its less sophisticated, but far less expensive,
competitors Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dell and Toshiba. This weeks report fr…
Apple competitors HP, Dell and Acer pull away from Apple as a down economy makes netbooks smaller, less expensive notebooks more attractive to consumers. Apple has repeatedly stated it has no interest in the netbook market.
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Reports from research firms Gartner and IDC show
Apple, the company whose products are synonymous with style and
substance at a price lagging behind its less sophisticated, but far less expensive,
competitors Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Toshiba. This weeks report from IDC
projected…
HP beat Dell in worldwide PC shipments for the second quarter of 2009, but in the U.S. market, aggressive pricing enabled Dell to take the lead. Acer followed in third position in the U.S., with a neck-and-neck Apple and Toshiba vying for the next two spots.
– Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, Garter is reporting. The number represents a 5 percent decline from the second quarter of 2008.
IDC, in a separate July 15 report, estimates second quarter 2009 numbers including desktops and portable PCs but ex…
HP beat Dell in worldwide PC shipments for the second quarter of 2009, but in the U.S. market, aggressive pricing enabled Dell to take the lead. Acer followed in third position in the U.S., with a neck-and-neck Apple and Toshiba vying for the next two spots.
– Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, Garter is reporting. The number represents a 5 percent decline from the second quarter of 2008.
IDC, in a separate July 15 report, estimates second quarter 2009 numbers including desktops and portable PCs but ex…
As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher, notebooks with solid-state drives such as Toshiba’s 512GB SSD laptop become more and more useful for both business and personal purposes. But prices remain 20 percent to 40 percent higher than standard spinning disk drive portables.
– Industry analysts and vendors are predicting
that solid-state disks for computing and storage are the wave of the future
for laptop computers, and for a lot of reasons.
As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher Toshiba
has a 512GB laptop available, and 1TB units are only months away they…
Product: Mini NB205 Netbook Manufacturer: ToshibaWired Rating: 7Toshiba is late to the netbook game, and with its 10.1-inch Mini NB205, the company overcompensates and complicates things a bit too much. But it still delivers a capable, quality machine….
