But HP, a company synonymous with the birth of Silicon Valley, and Compaq Computer, a Houston-based firm which once pioneered PC price-cutting, may yet have to restructure their deal or abandon it entirely.
Looking into the second quarter, Samsung expects to improve profitability in the chip business with a recovery in PC DRAM price and by expanding its new product category with mobile application processors based on 32 nanometer-class process technology.
High-price PC-based premium portable models can now perform cardiology, radiology, and obstetrics functions that once required much more expensive machines.
Dell is confident of remaining among the lowest-price PC producers.
Because large companies buy in quantity, each PC carries a low price.
Windows pricing for PC makers refers to the average price that Microsoft charges for its Windows Operating System to PC manufacturers like H-P and Dell.
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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.
We forecast declines beyond 2012 as we expect that the entry of ARM-based players in PC microprocessor market will fuel price competition.
The bull case assumes HP call get an attractive price for the PC business, and then execute successfully on the rest of the business.
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Even if Dell wanted to retire as king of the PC business, his inflated stock price won't let him.
Traumatized by price competition in the PC disk drive market, Seagate reported lower earnings for the latest quarter, and Western Digital is expecting the same for the current quarter.
The average price that Microsoft charges PC manufacturers like Dell and Hewlett-Packard for its Windows operating system has been declining since 2008, led by an increasing mix of netbooks among PC sales.
The site offers gamers some of the greatest PC games of all time for a low price and free from copy protection.
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Developing games for a uniform system is a huge advantage over the PC market with its wildly diverse array of price and power points.
As with all newly introduced electronic devices, the price of a one-GHz PC will fall considerably if you wait six months or so before you buy.
"Robots that are currently 'luxury' according to price will be commoditized in the future and drop in price, very similar to the PC model, " predicts Dan Kara , president of Robotics Trends .
At the low end, cheap gear such as the Eee PC offer a small form factor at a nice price.
By changing to product segment reporting going forward, but not providing this information for the period just ended, we believe management is intentionally emphasizing declining PC sales in order to justify its inadequate buyout price.
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It was selling Internet service for roughly the same price as other Internet service providers while throwing in a PC.
Dell stock sells near the lowest price it has in years as it flounders in a PC industry that is struggling, as yet unsuccessfully, with how to cope with the iPad and all it has wrought.
Like the wafer-think Dell XPS 13 introduced earlier this year, both machines aim to balance some of the refinement that gives Apple its appeal, with a price low enough to give those thinking of ditching their Windows PC for a Mac pause.
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That minuscule price is attached to Norhtec's Microclient JrSX, a desktop PC the size of a large novel.
Sierra plans on having Mac and PC support for the whole lot, and we'll be digging for details surrounding price and availability.
Denny Arar, senior editor at PC World magazine, said that Me runs too slow and offers consumers too little to justify its price tag.
Although the broader PC market continues to struggle, Apple has maintained its impressive growth in its Mac sales despite its higher price range.
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Apple primarily competes with PC makers like Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Acer, all of which have seen greater notebook price erosion than Apple historically.
"I don't think the price war is going to abate anytime soon, " says Bruce Stephen, vice-president for worldwide PC research at International Data Corp. (IDC).
Outside of ASUS and Lenovo, whose price-focused strategies and key acquisitions kept them ahead of rivals, virtually every major vendor saw its PC shipments collapse versus a year ago, often by more than 10 percent.
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