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Article | 23/02/2011 Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is ready for download

Bug fixes and security patches don't make for the most exciting Windows update, but they're the high points of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, now widely av...

Article | 23/02/2011 HP reports mixed quarter on weak PC sales

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday reported strong profits for its first fiscal quarter of 2011 but the results were dampened by weakness in its PC and servic...

Article | 19/02/2011 Fedora and openSUSE Linux drop Unity efforts

Canonical made quite a splash last fall when it announced that the Unity interface used in its Ubuntu Netbook Edition would become the default interfa...

Article | 17/02/2011 Lenovo profit rises in Q3 on strong PC sales in China

Lenovo, China's largest PC vendor, reported strong net profit growth in the third quarter as it increased market share in China and gauged brisk sales...

Article | 15/02/2011 Intel's six-core i7-990X is its fastest desktop chip yet

Intel started shipping the six-core Core i7-990X Extreme Edition processor on Monday, calling it the fastest Intel desktop processor ever.

Article | 4/02/2011 Lenovo halts shipment of PCs with faulty Intel chipsets

Lenovo will stop shipments of its latest IdeaPad laptops and IdeaCentre desktops in the wake of Intel's revelation of a flaw in the Sandy Bridge chips...

Article | 4/02/2011 Throwing away your old computer just got harder in Europe

New rules on disposing of your old laptop, printer or mobile phone look set to come into force in the European Union. The European Parliament on Thurs...

Article | 3/02/2011 AMD's Fusion Packs More Graphics Punch in Netbooks

Deciding how much graphics power is required when purchasing a PC has never been easy. Investing in a standalone graphics processor from AMD or Nvidia...

Article | 2/02/2011 PC vendors unleash mainstream AMD Fusion laptops and desktops, focus on low power consumption

Acer, Dell, HP, MSI, Sony and Toshiba were among the first vendors to showcase new notebooks and all-in-one PCs based on AMD's Fusion APU (accelerated...

Article | 28/01/2011 Microsoft's Windows revenues plunge 30%

Revenues from Windows plummeted 30 per cent last quarter compared to the same period the year before, Microsoft said on Thursday.

Article | 28/01/2011 Linux vendors teaming up for an app store

There seems to be no end to the momentum propelling Linux into the mainstream these days, and this week news came out that's surely among the most exc...

Article | 27/01/2011 If tablets are PCs, Apple is world's 3rd biggest seller

When is a tablet not a tablet? When it's a PC.

Article | 26/01/2011 Acer reports record revenue, profit in 2010

Acer, one of the world's top PC vendors, reported record high revenue of $NT629.7 billion ($US19.9 billion) in 2010 and profits in its core business, ...

Article | 19/01/2011 Casemod adds a projector

When Lenovo had its recent Mod Contest, modder Boddaker submitted this gem: A Lenovo A700 IdeaCentre PC with an HD projector built in underneath. The ...

Article | 18/01/2011 Is this the ultimate desktop PC case?

If you're like us, you're probably suffering tablet fatigue in the wake of a CES packed to the rafters with iPad-wannabes. So it is a breath of fresh ...

Article | 14/01/2011 Can we blame the iPad yet for slowing PC sales?

Doom-and-gloom PC prophecies tend to blame the iPad for laptop declines, but IDC and Gartner aren't sounding the alarms just yet.

Article | 14/01/2011 Apple iPad, other tablets, blunt Q4 PC sales

Tablets like Apple's iPad are taking a toll on an already battered PC market.

Article | 13/01/2011 IDC: Tablets, weak spending hurt PC shipments in Q4

Worldwide PC shipments were slower than expected during the fourth quarter of 2010, hurt by competition from tablets and a slowdown in consumer spendi...

Article | 8/01/2011 Apple: Mac App Store hit 1 million download mark in 24 hours

Apple Friday said that more than 1 million apps were downloaded from the Mac App Store on its first day.

Article | 6/01/2011 Ballmer plugs Windows 7 as an OS for all devices

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off c...