The company has a dedicated tablet section in many of its stores and sells Tegra-powered Android devices from Samsung, Acer, Asus, Toshiba and others, including the Samsung Google Nexus 7, Acer Iconia, ASUS TF300t, and the Toshiba Excite 10.
So far, there are just a handful of ultrabooks, from Asus, Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba.
Among the products announced were new notebooks from Apple, Samsung, Dell, HP, Asus, Acer, Lenovo, and Sony.
Hardware partners such as HP, Asus, Acer and Dell are also expected to make the best use of the holiday season to boost PC demand with their respective launches of Windows 8-powered ultrabooks, tablets and PCs.
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In fact, we'll be eagerly awaiting reactions from the likes of ASUS, Acer, HP, Toshiba, Dell and the rest of the lot -- Microsoft just made itself a rival in a lot of ways, and only time will tell how prudent that decision was.
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That mix makes Dell a particularly valuable barometer, since Dell competes with Apple in high-end PC market, Asus and Acer in the mainstream PC market, HTC and Samsung in tablets and smartphones, IBM in the data center, and HP just about everywhere.
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Almost everyone else: HP, Dell, Sony, Blackberry, Acer, Asus, Google, Microsoft and Motorola were essentially noise in the survey.
Other device manufacturers such as HP, Asus, Sony and Acer are quickly developing their own tablet offerings to tap growing consumer interest in these devices.
The company also notes that starting today you can pre-order new Windows 8 PCs and tablets from various OEMs, including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Samsung and Sony.
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But hold on a minute, just because the exact models from Acer and Asus are no longer being manufactured does not mean that the netbook concept is dead.
Meanwhile, Dell been hustling to build computers with more curb appeal in a consumer market where it faces tough competition from Apple, HP, Acer, Asus, Samsung, and a host of others.
Dell's Latitude 10, the ASUS Tablet 810, Acer's Iconia W510 and W700, Lenovo's ThinkPad 2, the HP Envy x2 and Samsung's Series 5 were all there.
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Windows 8 is coming in some very attractive packages from Acer, ASUS, Samsung, Fujitsu and even Dell and HP you can look over the range or products from the Intel Ultrabook page.
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Even as the final Windows 8 trial was being announced, reports were surfacing that Asus, Toshiba and Acer all plan to unveil Windows tablets next week at the Computex trade show in Taipei.
The mobile market continues to evolve at a rapid rate with new smartphones and tablets being introduced by Apple, Samsung, Acer, Asus, HP, Toshiba, Vizio and other big companies at a brisk (almost monthly) pace.
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Hot on the heels of the Windows 8 Release Preview, it's claimed by the ever-present "people with knowledge of the matter" that Acer, ASUS and Toshiba will all be showing tablets with the new OS at the Taipei show.
Several firms that had been Asian ODMs Acer and ASUS, in particular spun off their manufacturing arms Wistron and Pegatron, respectively and morphed their companies into strong brands, buying their manufacturing in the contract marketplace rather than doing it themselves.
Every PC maker (HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba), every mobile phone producer (Samsung, LG, Nokia, Research In Motion, Sony Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE), every Asian network builder (Acer, Asus) and even the second largest seller of TV sets in the U.S. (Vizio) are planning to unveil new tablet models in 2011.
Worldwide, it's a different picture than it was a few months ago: HP is back on top at 15.7 percent, followed by Lenovo, Dell, Acer and ASUS. The American climate is somewhat more familiar, with HP in front at 25.1 percent while being chased by Dell, Apple, Toshiba and Lenovo.
Specifically, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Microsoft reps in Taipei found it difficult to navigate their own OS due to hardware issues with their demo devices -- namely, new all-in-one PCs from Acer and ASUS. There were said to be issues with opening and closing apps, possibly due to the implementation of touch on such large screen sizes of 23-inches and over.
Among the top five manufacturers, Dell, Lenovo, and Asus saw solid growth while HP and Acer dipped.
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Keep in mind that we've already seen this Frame Zero concept pictured above from Fujitsu and Acer's arch-rival ASUS has been showing off its dual-display laptop prototype with touchscreen keyboard for months.
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Most current models, including Samsung's NC10, much of the Asus Eee range, the MSI Wind and the Acer Aspire One, use Intel's Atom as their central processor.
Acer, with 9.9%, and Asus, with 7.3%, round out the top five.
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