Which might be very nice for both Apple and the Chinese manufacturing workers who still have jobs and really rather bad for those who lose them as Dell and HP presumably sell less or move manufacturing elsewhere and certainly would be bad for everyone else who works in Dell, HP and the rest as the companies faced those higher costs.
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Consider the sorry state of HP and Dell, once proud giants of the PC world.
The audience consists of 70 chief marketing officers from companies like IBM, HP and Dell.
Despite its recent loss of share to Acer and HP, Dell might be regaining its position.
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That was good enough to move HP past Dell to the top spot in the PC business.
The effect on the main suppliers is huge with HP, Dell, Microsoft having the most to lose.
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Intel expects more devices from LG and Samsung and possibly HP and Dell.
Our specific examples today are Lenovo, the Chinese PC manufacturer, and its two main competitors, HP and Dell.
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Do we really think a tablet PC from HP or Dell will be better than the iPad and therefore really hurt Apple?
Lenovo finished in third place with a 6.5 percent slice, while HP and Dell trailed behind with 4.8 and 3.2 percent, respectively.
And if you think of it like Microsoft Windows is an operating system that runs on several computers, like HP, Dell, and Toshiba...
Both HP and Dell have been trying for a long time to break into other consumer electronics but really have not been successful.
Most major notebook manufacturers like HP and Dell have already announced that they are working on Windows 8 notebooks and tablets.
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If successful, such a strategy can be a threat to companies like HP and Dell that sell many of the notebook PCs used in businesses today.
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Resiliency and footprint aside, the MacBook remains a member of a different class of computer from the HP and Dell machines that I reviewed, as its price suggests.
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Guadalara, a city in a state dealing with rising levels of inter-cartel violence, is home to IT operations run by HP, Dell, Intel, and an ecosystem of smaller companies.
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That business is tied to declines in PC shipments suffered by HP, Dell, Acer and other computer builders in calendar Q3 -- historically a productive back-to-school buying quarter.
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While the exact numbers vary, the two paint a partly familiar picture of the world stage: HP and Dell are taking a bruising, while ASUS and Lenovo are making huge leaps forward.
Greenpeace ranks Apple in the middle of the pack of tech companies -- behind HP and Dell but ahead of Samsung, Sony and others -- in terms of its sustainability and environmental friendliness.
More recently, a somewhat overlapping group of tech heavyweights called the Green Grid, including Intel, HP, Dell, Microsoft, IBM, Sun and AMD, announced a "roadmap" for the IT industry's adoption of more efficient data center hardware.
The new software will need ever more powerful hardware to work well, and both HP and Dell Computer have been working with Microsoft for over a year to tweak their boxes for the new operating systems.
Apple, the third-largest maker of computers in the U.S. behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell, did see its marketshare rise (to 13.6 percent from 12.5 percent) as both HP and Dell suffered greater year-over-year declines.
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The combination of the two enabled HP, Dell, and Lenovo to introduce tablets that provided the consumer-friendly features of the iPad while allowing enterprise IT to use the same security, provisioning, deployment, management, service, and repair processes and tools as their Windows 7 PCs.
From complex accounting systems to the stuff that tracks employee performance, compensation and inventories, he'll bring it all together and run it for customers in his data centers, saving them the headache and upfront cost of buying hardware from Ellison's shop, HP, Dell or IBM.
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