Chrome OS laptop computers, built by hardware partners, are currently on sale.
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You want progressive material or movies, it has to be done on all computers, with progressive scan hardware.
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For one thing, it suggests that the software giant has finally concluded that Steve Jobs was right all along: that in order to make consumer-friendly computers one must control both the hardware and the software.
It also wouldn't be difficult for Apple to develop a software-hardware combination that would let its computers record TV shows, much like Hewlett-Packard 's (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) Media Center PC already does.
For although Sun makes most of its money selling server computers and storage devices, it is not just a hardware-maker.
Long focused in personal computers on supplying operating system software, while leaving the hardware side to others, a move into the hardware side of the business would be a bold shift in direction.
Computers will be able to improve their own source codes and hardware in ways we puny humans could never conceive.
These days, software spending is increasing at twice the rate of hardware spending, as businesses struggle to make their new computers work better.
They do not need to invest in new hardware or technology staff, nor install software on existing computers, as all the computing takes place on Salesforce.com's machines.
Furthermore, James Cameron had a bank of about a million computers rendering each frame of that movie, and to think that hardware could all be pressed into a console a few years later is a bit of a stretch.
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We have spent trillions of dollars worldwide for the computers to create and process information, networks to move it around and the hardware to store it.
You generally play a software synth using an external music keyboard plugged into the Mac via some variety of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) hardware device for connecting electronic musical instruments to each other and to computers.
At the time, Apple was having trouble with selling its computers, and Jobs spent most of his time trying to figure out ways to boost hardware sales.
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Like the OLPC laptop, the decTOP's innovations come out of a drive to bring computers and the Internet to rural Africa and Asia: Data Evolution acquired the machine's hardware from Advanced Micro Devices, whose "50x15" program seeks to take 50% of the world's population online by 2015.
Like the OLPC laptop, the decTOP's innovations come out of a drive to bring computers and the Internet to rural Africa and Asia: Data Evolution acquired the machine's hardware from Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ), whose "50x15" program seeks to take 50% of the world's population online by 2015.
That's becoming the crucial element in these "handheld computers" -- you talk about Google and Microsoft and Apple... they make hardware, but they're software companies.
The hardware is based on the kind of x86 processors found in most of the world's computers.
The Department is apparently way behind in getting its computer hardware and software fortified against the so-called Millennium Bug: Unless replaced or adjusted, computers at the turn of the century will behave as if the numerals 00 are 1900 rather than 2000 and may possibly crash.
And if the plans of Apple's rivals in the world of Windows-based computers are any indicator, Apple should by all rights be ready to make another leap into entertainment-oriented hardware.
He bets that corporations will ditch their old wire-line telephone hardware and buy new phones that send and receive calls over the same broadband connections that hook desktop computers to the internet.
The problem has stemmed from the way giants in the Wi-Fi hardware business, like Cisco Systems and 3Com, build their antennas: They're like little computers, with a lot of networking and security intelligence in the box.
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