We can't say we're completely surprised when Microsoft made an investment in Dell's reorg precisely to safeguard PCs, but it's good to know that Dell's interest in PCs still extends well beyond the server room.
The PCS's ruling national executive committee is demanding further talks with Mr Maude, to explain why it believes the latest offer is unacceptable.
Mr Flynn said the union had been holding talks with management which were due to be discussed by the executive committee of the PCS's immigration section.
Intel uses its manufacturing prowess to skinny the mighty x86 designs its customers build into the world's PCs into a chip that can power a gizmo the size of Apple's iPhone.
The company says it has evidence of a concerted effort to install "malware" on surfer's PCs from April 10 through April 24 but that it doesn't know whether anyone's bank account has actually been breached.
What do we get from all the bells and whistles piled into today's PCs?
Windows is the operating system--the brain and central nervous system--of 90% of the world's PCs.
Applications could include optical storage devices and quantum computers, far quicker and more powerful than today's PCs.
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Apple's PCs and notebook computers--long relegated to a niche status--are tearing off big gobs of the PC market.
In February 2000, a lawsuit was filed in California claiming that the AOL software made unwarranted changes to user's PCs.
That will be the most basic model, doing the computing and word processing tasks of today's PCs as well as such functions as accessing the Internet.
You queried that server to look for a particular artist or song and quickly found hundreds of versions of it on other people's PCs, ready to be downloaded.
Alongside the new state-of-the-art PCs, there's an elegant T Series Ultrabook and portfolio of VAIO PCs that put touch right at the heart of the personal computing experience.
ENGADGET: Sony's VAIO Duo 11 Windows 8 slider goes on sale this month, starts at $1,100
In 2006 Intel sold its nascent xscale smartphone processor business to Marvell, after Intel's engineers decided they could eventually shrink the Intel architecture powering the world's PCs into a handheld processor.
Intel's new processor, called Intel Media Processor 3100, will be built around the same chip design used in most of the world's PCs and servers, and it will support high-definition video, high-end audio and 3-D graphics.
When you run the company that stamps out the chips that power most of the world's PCs and servers--as Intel Chief Executive PaulOtelliniPaul Otellini does--you've got a whole lot more riding on your quarterly results than the average tech company.
Since then, Intel Chief Executive PaulOtelliniPaul Otellini has taken the fight to AMD by focusing on the one spot where AMD had hurt it most: the so-called "x86" chips built by both Intel and AMD that power most of the world's PCs, servers and notebook computers.
Since then, Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini has taken the fight to AMD by focusing on the one spot where AMD had hurt it most: the so-called "x86" chips built by both Intel and AMD that power most of the world's PCs, servers and notebook computers.
Gamers who have endured lag filled game-play with unimpressive low-resolution visuals finally can break free thanks to Digital Storm's Marauder gaming line, the first gaming PCs built around Corsair's Vengeance C70 chassis.
ENGADGET: Digital Storm launches Marauder series of desktop PCs for gamers on a budget
For instance, although Intel's practice of providing rebates to retailers who sell PCs with Intel chips inside, could be interpreted as an innocent discount, Balto says he expects to see courts scrutinize the policies to assess whether Intel deliberately took measures to hamper AMD's ability to get PCs using its chips displayed and sold by retailers.
TruServ, a retailing cooperative that includes True Value Hardware, had 2, 800 PCs running Microsoft's Windows 98.
Since then he's sold PCs and equipment to friends, relatives, even a local charity.
Since then he's sold PCs and related equipment to friends, relatives and even a local charity.
But pulling AMD-based PCs off Dell's virtual shelf is clearly a blow to the No. 2 chip maker.
That's what PCS members will be marching for on Saturday and politicians across the UK would do well to listen.
The thing we find tedious about the whole deal is that it seems you can only stream music to the stereo over a home LAN from one of Sony's Vaio PCs, and that you can only check out music to portable players via MemorySticks or NetMD.
So while big companies like HP are "excited" about the possibility of putting small PCs in America's homes, we think they're going to have to do some serious revamping (and possibily a bit of innovating, too) before they're going to be able to cannibalize their own laptop business and convince the end-user that small and chic is de rigueur.
There's certainly no shortage of companies out there touting their own ready-made green PCs, but if that's not your thing, the ever-helpful folks at Ars Technica have now let loose a guide for building your own.
ENGADGET: Ars Technica dishes out guide for building your own green PC
Sure, Acer's newly-refreshed Predator gaming rig is all well and good if you like your PCs orange and menacing, but less adventuresome folks need PCs too, and Acer's more than happy to cater to them as well with a range of decidedly more understated offerings.
ENGADGET: Acer rolls out ASM5800, ASM3202, ASX5810 desktop PCs
That's because cheap PCs -- the fastest-growing computer segment -- ship with cheap software.
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