Tech tracker Gartner reported earlier this month that fourth-quarter PC shipments fell 1.4% from the year-ago quarter.
In addition, the desktop grade, dual-core 1.8GHz Atom D525 processor inside the Eee PC 1215N also provides about double the speed and, as we said before, the 12.1-inch Eee PC certainly feels faster in everyday use to us.
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Impress got their hands on an unofficially released MSI Wind PC (the mini-PC, not the low-cost laptop) and subjected the 1.33GHz Atom processor to a suite of standard tests.
The last time we saw Steve Ballmer star in a commercial for Microsoft, he was extolling the virtues of a 286-based PC running the glory that was Windows 1.0 -- in 1986.
He just spent the past six years building a replica of the Cyan game's signature, Age-traveling link books that includes a full Windows XP PC with a 1.6GHz Atom, a 2-hour battery, a 5-inch touchscreen and every playable game from the Myst series stored on a CF card.
In May HP said desktop PC revenue grew 1% year-over-year, for the quarter ended April 30.
Krikorian served on the board of Amazon.com Inc. and also co-founded the Philips Mobile Computing Group where he co-led the team that created the award-winning Velo 1 handheld PC running Windows CE.
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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.
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Examples of assembly language software you may be familiar with are IBM PC DOS and the spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3.
He points to data from Gartner Research that predicts sales of 1.4 billion post-PC devices (a category that he construes as including the Chromebook) by 2015 compared with 540 million traditional PCs.
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AOC's award winning 2230Fm HD3 Display offers the same gaming experience as the 2230Fh, but adds a 4-in-1 memory card reader and built-in multi-media player for playing movies with NO PC REQUIRED.
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While a 1-gigabyte hard drive was fairly expensive in 1995, PC hard drives of 20 GB and up are now fairly typical, reducing the need for the extra PC storage space.
The PC side will run XP Tablet Edition, on a 1.5GHz Via C7-M processor, while the smartphone will run Windows Mobile 5.0.
The model 70CT, with a port replicator, includes a 120-MHz Pentium MMX chip, a 1.5GB hard drive, and PC Card slots.
In May, Microsoft released Kineck for Windows 1.5 with an SDK (Software Developers Kit) to facilitate the creation of PC-centric apps for the motion sensor.
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The basic requirements for running Windows 8 are a processor running at 1 gigahertz or faster, and at least 1 or 2 gigabytes of memory, depending on whether your PC is a less demanding 32-bit or more demanding 64-bit system (the installer tells you).
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It runs on Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows XP and requires a PC with an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium 4 running at 1.3 gigahertz or higher, though a chip running at 2 Ghz or higher is recommended.
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