Hardware
Decline of former computer icon Dell
Once the leading seller of PCs, Dell has fallen on hard times. It may still be the third biggest PC vendor but disclosures in a recent lawsuit will do its reputation no good. The New York Times reports how the company covered up difficulties from bad capacitors in millions of computers that Dell shipped:
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Laptops as desktop replacements
Recently, there has been a veritable flood of announcements about new models of laptops. I recently posted about the smaller netbooks and here is some information about the larger sizes.
At the large end are desktop replacements. Many home PC users now own laptops instead of desktops. Laptops are no longer an expensive category and are [...]
Netbook coming attractions
New variations on the netbook platform keep appearing. New processors that allow much longer battery life are a common theme. There are also alternatives to Windows as the operating system. In fact, Windows is such a drag on system resources that a number of the new offerings couldn’t run Windows. However, the Android or other [...]
