One issue to which the company is particularly sensitive is the criticism that Xbox games are really just PC games that have been ported to the new platform.
Users want services optimized for their mobile phones, not just a PC sync experience.
Even just a PC running iTunes, or geez, at least a measly iPod.
David Hitz, cofounder and head of engineering at NetApp, agrees that low-end storage technologies will move up the performance ladder, just as PC technologies did.
If you only ask the IT staff, the answer will be that most use just a PC, some use a smartphone, and a few use a tablet.
He crossed a set of traffic lights on his motorcycle at the crossroads with Talbot Road and Christchurch Road at about 19.00 GMT, just as PC Stewart was driving through a red light.
Apple's Tim Cook boasted that 100 million had been sold in just two and a half years, and the tablet was now outselling not just every PC, but the entire range of any PC-maker.
The dynamic of entertainment online is quickly changing from just a PC or laptop experience to one that can be taken on-the-go with mobile devices or enjoyed at home on a traditional big screen TV.
For times when your PC just won't boot, you need to have a working boot disk stowed away.
What makes the smartphone and tablet so special is that they are essentially just like your PC, small computers powered by a central processing unit .
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Just as the PC usurped the mainframe and set off explosive change in computers, new optical technologies may someday overtake electronics and topple the established telecom order.
Denial of service becomes distributed denial of service, because instead of just a single PC, there are thousands or maybe even hundreds of thousands of machines involved in the attack.
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Of course, they haven't built a living genetic PC just yet, but to speed up its development, the team has contributed all the transcriptor-based logic gates to the public domain.
There are also devices designed to connect your PC to your home entertainment system so you can play MP3 music from the Internet over your home system, not just on your PC.
Mr. STEVENSON: Now, I happen to have a digital camera from Japan, and it works just fine with my PC.
With its manufacturing efficiency and strong brand name, he says, Dell can defeat the cheap-PC guys just as it beat Packard Bell earlier in the decade.
No surprise then that market watcher Gartner just lowered its 2011 PC growth forecast from 9.3% to 3.8% and its 2012 figure from 12.8% to 10.9%.
Teusink demonstrated at the Hack In The Box talk how he could run a Metasploit exploit on the victim PC with just a few keystrokes to remotely hijack the machine.
And just about every other PC maker has anorexic profit margins, boring products, and customers eager to abandon them the moment they can save a buck on a model from someone else.
Then when Gartner came out and reduced their forecast for PC sales just before 10:00 am, things got ugly and it looked as if the bears were ready to break on through to the other side.
The IdeaCentre Q190, the world's smallest1 full-function desktop PC at just 22mm (0.86 inches) wide, packs multimedia features that can turn any display in your home into an entertainment hub for videos, games, web browsing and more.
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In fact, in what was perhaps most interesting is the remark by CEO Steve Jobs that they are moving the Cloud to the center of the computing experience, and turning the Mac and PC into just another device.
Which might indeed be a valid way of looking at things: I think we can all see a day coming, and coming soon, when a desktop PC is just not considered an essential piece of equipment at all.
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Put a Cius into its dock with a landline handset connected to a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and it could load your virtual Mac or Windows desktop and act just like a traditional PC as well as a desk phone.
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.
That means trouble for HP, whose newly successful PC business had just stolen the sales crown from Dell.
He notes that the company remains one of just two remaining players in PC graphics, along with Nvidia.
We also want to release brand new PC titles, just like we did last year with The Witcher 2.
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