Therefore the increasing popularity of tablet computers should add to the expected surge in the SSD space.

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The computer maker has been hit by the rising popularity of tablet computers and is diversifying into more profitable areas of technology, such as business software, data analytics and storage.

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Both companies have struggled to grow sales as they battle the surge in popularity of smartphones and tablet computers.

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In recent years, Dell has struggled to cope with the upheaval unleashed by the popularity of smartphones and tablet computers.

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Recently the concept of massively parallel processing has regained popularity as relatively inexpensive computers and large of amounts of memory can be combined to solve problems not previously able to be tackled.

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HDDs for notebook computers, the fastest growing category of HDDs, has experienced a hit in Q1 2011 due to the popularity of flash-based tablet computers.

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She said the popularity of e-readers and tablet computers as Christmas presents had also helped to make January Surrey's busiest e-book month so far, with 2, 469 e-book loans.

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Laptops are getting slimmer with the growing popularity of ultrabooks and demand for traditional desktop computers is dropping.

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And as Apple executives had hoped, the iPod's popularity is helping drive up sales of its Macintosh computers.

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The Mac App Store is seen as a way for Apple to capitalize on the popularity of its iPhones and iPads to sell more computers.

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