In the personal computer category, Amazon said the Apple MacBook, Nokia Internet Tablet PC and HP Pavilion Entertainment Notebook PC were strong sellers.
In the personal computer category, Amazon said the Apple MacBook, Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) Internet Tablet PC and HP Pavilion Entertainment Notebook PC were strong sellers.
Do we really think a tablet PC from HP or Dell will be better than the iPad and therefore really hurt Apple?
The tiny machine joins Dell's Inspiron Mini 9, the Asus Eee PC 900, the HP Mini-Note 2133 and the Intel Classmate PC among the new class of machines offering cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.
No, scratch that, the PC company that HP might spin off might revive the TouchPad computer.
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That mindset sets Lenovo apart from other PC giants (HP, Dell) that have moved towards selling higher-margin services and cloud computing.
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Investors will be watching closely for any signs of a slowdown in PC sales or a drop in average PC prices for HP.
Outsourcing PC manufacturing allows HP to focus on strategic core competencies, including supply chain design, new product and services development, supplier management and customer relationship management.
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"Our customers want the highest storage capacity with the ability to access their data easily and quickly, " said Fredrik Hamberger, vice president, consumer PC business, HP.
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Engadget reports that it will also be also include VoIP and e-reader functionality as well as include a "fridge" app that allows family members to scribble notes on it, functionality seen in the far larger and pricier PC-based HP TouchSmart desktop PCs.
Every PC maker (HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba), every mobile phone producer (Samsung, LG, Nokia, Research In Motion, Sony Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE), every Asian network builder (Acer, Asus) and even the second largest seller of TV sets in the U.S. (Vizio) are planning to unveil new tablet models in 2011.
Bracelin figures HP's U.S. retail PC sales will sink by 7%, a drop that will drag sales growth down for HP's entire PC business.
The solutions offered by HP will include an executive desktop solution running on an HP TouchSmart PC.
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First, doing so vaults Apple into third place globally in Q4 among PC vendors, behind HP and Acer, according to Canalys.
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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Second, while the Asus Eee PC may have been closer to a computing appliance or companion than a PC, the deluge of netbooks from large PC companies such as HP, Acer and Dell that have followed have overwhelmingly run Windows and have been embraced by consumers as small and cheap, if underpowered, laptops.
In May HP said desktop PC revenue grew 1% year-over-year, for the quarter ended April 30.
Couple that with souring consumer sentiment, and the sales growth at HP's PC group could start to slow.
HP's PC money came from retail, while Compaq had a profitable Web-based business.
At the same time, HP's PC group is the company's weakest business, with earnings from operations that amounted to just 5.3% of the unit's revenues during fiscal year 2007.
The PC giant, like rivals HP, Dell, Lenovo and Asus, is currently launching tablets and preparing a number of tablets for release later this year.
Criminal hackers are spending more time investigating security flaws in Mac computers, Reuters reports, as Apple gains further market share in desktop computers from PC makers like Dell, HP and Lenovo.
The tablet PC market has grown exponentially with leading PC makers like Dell and HP introducing their own versions of tablets like the Streak and Slate, respectively, in order to compete better with the iPad.
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Even though Quanta makes laptops for PC heavyweights like Dell, HP, and IBM, that doesn't necessarily mean that they'll want to implement Quanta's integration technology (to say nothing of the countless mobile device manufacturers that would have to get behind this).
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With a beautifully simple brushed-aluminum design and optional backlit keyboard, the HP ENVY m4 PC features a 14-inch diagonal HD display and third-generation Intel Core processors that deliver a rich visual experience and a burst of speed for heavy processing tasks.
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With HP now the largest PC maker, that could be all AMD needs to reverse its fortune.
Of course HP hopes that this PC will find its way out of the den somehow.
These were 25-digit activation keys used by big PC makers such as Dell and HP to activate Windows.
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