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It marks Microsoft's entry into the PC hardware market, posing competition to other computer manufacturers.
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And so why are all the PC hardware manufacturers bringing out Win8 versions in 4Q12?
Meanwhile, the research firm notes that Apple hardware is single-handedly keeping PC hardware sales about the flat line.
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So, PC hardware makers are loading up on Win8 units for the holiday and for the most part eschewing WinRT.
According to reports, the system installs a driver that gives it low-level access to PC hardware drivers and system resources.
Many small businesses are that way, while some larger ones are still loading newly-purchased PC hardware with a standardized Windows XP install.
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With Xbox, where we've got pretty rich protection capability, we'll probably get slightly more video on Xbox than on today's PC hardware.
According to our analysis, PC hardware now constitutes nearly 27% percent of its value, while services accounts for nearly 26% of its value.
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This is the specification that drive suppliers like Seagate and Western Digital meet to sell them to PC hardware OEMs like Dell and HP.
Some analysts have said the focus on wireless technology at Comdex this year is proof that the PC hardware show is no longer relevant.
This is critical analysis for any online game company, PC hardware maker, components maker, service provider, or institutional investor with an eye on China.
If this is the future of post-PC hardware, bring it on.
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After a stint at Salomon Brothers she moved to the research department at Cowen and eventually joined Morgan as a PC hardware and software analyst in 1991.
My colleague Brian Caulfield points out to me that Intel already offers similar functionality for PCs via its vPro technology, which is built into PC hardware.
His evidence showed how Microsoft effectively controlled IBM's PC hardware and software businesses by making the price of Windows considerably higher than for other comparable PC makers.
Apple has a couple structural advantages that distinguish the company from declining businesses of PC hardware makers and commodity cellphone manufacturers, and should help it to maintain its margins.
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Numerous events this year have foreshadowed Valve directly entering the PC hardware game, but boss Gabe Newell made it official during a red carpet interview at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards.
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But if past Windows launches are any guide, Microsoft will help its cause by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on high-profile TV ads, viral whisper campaigns and "co-marketing" money for its PC hardware partners and the resellers who push Microsoft software to big corporations.
If Microsoft can succeed at producing its own videogame hardware and is widely rumored to be working on its own branded portable media player, could it succeed at, say, its own PC hardware -- that is, going beyond the keyboards and mice that it sells very successfully today?
It's hard to get totally excited about a PC hardware peripheral, given the smaller quantity of games (particularly hardware-specific titles) over in desktop land, but with Valve support and what appears to be the perfect control scheme (dual analog sticks, dual fully 3D-sensing motion controllers), we'd say the Hydra has a better shot at winning us over than anything else of its ilk.
Each system is hand crafted for precision performance and uncompromised quality, and has won multiple Editors' Choice awards from publications such as Hot Hardware, PC World, Maximum PC, Computer Shopper and more.
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But to get anywhere, Apple needs to quickly remake its OS to run PC software and license its hardware to anyone willing to make it.
The company develops and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms including PC, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
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The company develops, publishes and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms including PC, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
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In other words, what you can do with the PS4 hardware on a console is not the same thing as what you can do with the same, or similar, hardware in a PC.
Console games are much harder to pirate than PC versions, as the console hardware needs to be modified.
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) is an international, non-profit standards association, representing a global network of hardware, software, PC, display, and component manufacturers committed to developing and promoting the electronics industry.
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The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) is an internationally leading non-profit standards organization, representing a global network of hardware, software, PC, display and component manufacturers committed to developing and promoting the electronics industry.
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Indeed, most of the agenda-setting for the future of the PC occurs at Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference and the Intel Developer Forum.
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