The portable PC market looks more robust but I am skeptical of the 2017 projections.
IDC's 1998 Portable PC Survey, which queried the purchasing-decision-making of about 300 buyers, found that only two top 10 spots were assigned to technology by buyers, Giusto said.
Part laptop, part tablet, part home console, and part portable console, the Razer Edge is the fruition of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan's dream to create a "true" portable PC gaming machine.
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Then from 2013 to 2017 portable PC shipments will grow to 241 million or a rate of 18.3% over the four years with the bulk of the growth coming from emerging markets.
While Samsung managed to ship more smartphones and portable PCs than Apple in 2012, Apple led all in tablet shipments, was eighth in portable PC shipments, and fifth overall in desktop PC shipments.
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As consumers and enterprise buyers spend more of their dollars on portable post-PC devices, the balance of power is going to change.
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Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan has been dreaming about building a true PC gaming portable for years.
Videos can also be recorded in MP4 format for playback on a PC or other portable electronic devices without having to convert the files.
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Users can easily watch videos, share and view photos, and listen to music right on the big screen, no matter if the files are stored on a digital camera, a portable drive, a networked PC or elsewhere.
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High-price PC-based premium portable models can now perform cardiology, radiology, and obstetrics functions that once required much more expensive machines.
It remains as part of their collection - either on a PC or on a portable player - for only as long as they continue to subscribe.
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You've downloaded tunes to your PC and put them on your portable player.
Skeptics could counter that this is not so functionally different from browsing a subscription music service on your PC and then transferring to your portable player, but music discovery is that odd leisure activity that requires work.
Whereas tablet PCs are full-blown PCs that contain all their components inside the casing of a notebook-sized flat-screen display, smart displays are light, portable display screens that connect wirelessly to a PC, so a user can interact with the PC away from the desk for reading documents or surfing the Web.
That in itself is not new, as there are plenty of small, portable hard drives for both the Mac OS and PC platforms.
We expect the Surface pads to have a similar impact on the PC industry as the Zune did in portable music players, ' commented Canalys Analyst Tim Coulling.
With Intel abandoning the traditional desktop PC, people may find themselves shopping around for a portable replacement.
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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?
The Prestige family of portable hard drives will also feature 256-bit hardware encryption built-in (PC only) with the transition to USB 3.0 models in the first quarter of 2011.
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The company has recently significantly expanded its product offering to include a wide variety of consumer-focused digital entertainment products, PC and netbook accessory items, and the ReZap line of battery and portable power solutions.
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The Series 7 Slate PC offers all of the features of a full-sized laptop in an extremely portable package, providing highly mobile users with the computing power they need for maximum productivity anywhere they go.
Intel, the PC chipset giant whose core business has come under threat from the burgeoning demand for portable mobile devices, may be planning to open up its once exclusive fabrication plants to third-party mobile players.
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Iomega prides itself on providing total solutions, which is why all of the new Iomega USB 3.0 eGo Portable Hard Drives come complete out of the box with 256-bit hardware encryption built-in (PC only), as well as the cables required to enjoy your drive right away, whether your desktop or laptop has USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 ports.
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As the name suggests, it's a 20-inch PC you can move from room to room -- if 11.86 pounds can really be considered portable.
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