Gateway's first notebook PC with a 13.3-inch widescreen display, it sports a small footprint and lightweight 5.3-pound design that is idea for travel and taking to work and class.
ENGADGET: Gateway trots out bargain-minded 15.6-inch MD Series notebooks
Including both the game console and the PC markets, sales of 3-D accelerators jumped from 140, 000 units in 1995 to 34 million last year, according to 4th Wave, an Alexandria, Virginia, research firm.
Divided by console, the Xbox 360 version had 1.22 million pre-orders, the PlayStation 3 version had 550K pre-orders, and the PC version had 204K pre-orders.
Maynard says he now sees PC units growing just 2.5%-3% in 2012.
Furthermore, the No. 3 PC maker warned that full-year revenue may come up short due to a weak economy and flooding in Thailand, which is a major producer of hard disk drives.
FORBES: Dell 3Q Revenue Falls Short; Thailand Floods, Economy May Impact Sales
Net shoppers will buy a sofa while flipping around a crystal-clear 3-D image of their model on-screen and speaking with a salesman by PC.
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Speaking of Free Realms, Sony Online Entertainment has gathered over 17 million registered players for its free-to-play game across PC, Mac, and PlayStation 3 since 2009.
FORBES: LEGO Universe Latest Online Game to Adopt Free-to-Play Business Model
The Prestige family of portable hard drives will also feature 256-bit hardware encryption built-in (PC only) with the transition to USB 3.0 models in the first quarter of 2011.
ENGADGET: Iomega pushes ahead with USB 3.0 transition, promises to keep drives at USB 2.0 prices
Cihra expects global PC shipments to be flat in 2013 after a 3% year-over-year drop in 2012.
FORBES: Intel, AMD, Nvidia: Evercore Slices Ests On Soft PC Sales
Its "Call of Duty: Ghosts" will come to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers this November 5, with next-gen release dates coming later.
You already know that Half-Life 2 for Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and OS X is excellent, but have you tried it on Linux?
As ZDNET correctly points out, those were 3 acquisitions that have failed to gain traction in a post-PC, tablet-driven market.
FORBES: Uh-Oh: Acer Selling More Google Chromebooks Than Windows 8 Laptops?
Breaking with its long-held tradition of PC-exclusivity in the release of new titles, Blizzard has now officially confirmed that Diablo 3 will see a release on consoles.
You can't get a truly hot-rodded box from this outfit, but you can get a special Doom 3 PC to fully experience the hit game.
During the second fiscal quarter, Lenovo's worldwide PC shipments grew 10.3 percent, in a difficult market that was down eight percent year-over-year, the 14th quarter in a row that the company has grown faster than the PC industry as a whole.
ENGADGET: Lenovo Q2 earnings reveal record high sales of $8.7 billion, highest-ever PC market share
Confirming recent signs of weakness, the market research firm Gartner this afternoon said worldwide PC shipments totaled 87.5 million units in the third quarter, down 8.3% from the year-earlier quarter.
FORBES: Worldwide Q3 PC Shipments Off 8.3%; Lenovo Now No. 1 Vendor
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