It is less a post-PC world than a co-PC world.
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To get the best gaming experience possible, he ordered a custom-built PC with a 398-gigabyte hard drive, Bose speakers and an Nvidia GeForce 6800 graphics card.
For instance, in a war-themed video game, a PC-user might be executing attacks, while another player on his iPhone at the same time might be coordinating communications between the virtual fighting units.
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In addition, consumers can automatically sync their AppZone apps with Android-based devices via BlueStacks Cloud Connect, a cloud-based service that enables a Windows-based PC to become an extension of an Android mobile device and vice versa1.
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Not surprisingly, would-be entrepreneurs are hastily developing hardware devices for a non-PC future.
Curious, on the first of these, Michael Dell, on stage at Dell World in December, declared the PC alive and well and rubbished the idea of a post-PC era.
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But in a week packed with the furious skirmishes of a post-PC ground war, Apple is most likely refurbishing its computers and shaving a few inches off its tablet.
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MSI's new 17-inch Crystal 945 barebones PC, however, does just that, allowing you to build a family-friendly PC with the heart of a hacker.
Recently the long-delayed SlingCatcher came out of the gate, which -- with a little finagling on a PC screen-- can display virtually any video content available via broadband on a television using its SlingProjector technology.
The fewer steps a consumer must take -- from opening the box to running a PC--the better, Whalley says.
For instance, according to a 2010 study by Google, advertisers experience, on average, an 11.5% increase in mobile click-through rates when they run a mobile-specific campaign as compared to a hybrid or PC-only campaign.
My money would be on Microsoft if they start to see themselves as a post-PC company.
Take a step back and look at the forest: Apple is following a Post-PC Strategy.
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Wierdly, in some ways this makes the Thrive more of a post-PC device than most of its rivals.
Microsoft is facing the heat of a post-PC environment faster than most expected.
As ZDNET correctly points out, those were 3 acquisitions that have failed to gain traction in a post-PC, tablet-driven market.
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Shadow is yet another tool by Adobe which focuses on HTML 5 development as Flash becomes increasingly irrelevant in a post-PC world.
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He trotted back out Windows Surface, a touch-screen PC inside a table that uses sophisticated cameras and software to synchronize with other gadgets.
While many consider that we are already in a post-PC era due to tablets, the biggest change will be shifting computing increasingly to the Cloud.
Again a piper played a lament - PC Bone, though born in England, had strong connections north of the border and regarded herself as Scottish.
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Third, Tim Cook telegraphed that it is not a post-PC world because the uptake in iPads would encourage Mac purchases, and he suggested further investment in Macs.
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As a full-fledged PC, the 11S also steps up to a higher-quality display: a 1, 600 x 900 IPS screen, compared with a 1, 366 x 768 LCD on the Yoga 11.
As much as Steve Jobs repeatedly saying that we are in a Post-PC era, I am sure deep inside, he would like to re-capture the PC market once again before he leaves Apple.
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Consoles, in turn, are accessible, and if Valve created a mini-PC of sorts (which is what most consoles are) for the living room, they could recreate the console experience many gamers prefer, complete with a controller, while still satiating the hardcore who want to use a wireless mouse and keyboard.
The idea is that you can keep a dish cool in an oven that doubles as a refrigerator for several hours during the day, then set it to defrost and bake using a timer--making any changes from a PC or Web-enabled phone.
Unfortunately, it sounds like both of Fujitsu's latest LifeBooks underperformed in the areas that mattered most, and as PCMag put it, shoving a full-fledged PC (with an integrated optical drive, no less) into a three- to four-pound frame requires quite a few tradeoffs.
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One of many companies demoing a gaze-following setup is Fujitsu, which is showing off a prototype desktop PC with a built-in sensor and infrared LED.
On that day my son Callum and I engaged in some father-son bonding by swapping the faulty motherboard on the family PC - the motherboard is the bit into which you plug all the other parts of a PC - processor, graphics card, memory et cetera.
While it's easy to see how TouchPad and smartphone sales would symbiotically attract developers, it's less clear how much apps for those products would have in common with, say, those on a printer front panel or on a layer living on top of Windows on a PC -- two possibilities that HP has raised for device markets where it is particularly strong.
To demonstrate how fast the new G4 systems are, Jobs staged a series of demos featuring a 500-MHz G4 system battling a PC powered by a 600-MHz Intel Corp.
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