Umax range grows
Computer Enterprises has announced the first line of UmaxPCs for the Australian market.
Computer Enterprises has announced the first line of UmaxPCs for the Australian market.
Notebook computers keep on getting sexier in a continuing effort to corner the corporate market.
Intel last week confirmed another delay in the delivery of its Pentium II Xeon processor, this time affecting a 450MHz version of the chip that is due to ship later this year.
Vobis Microcomputers AG will next week detail a restructuring plan designed to bring the German PC retailer back to profitability, according to a Vobis spokeswoman.
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Apple Australia expects to start selling its iMac entry-level PC on September 5, and has forged a number of important partnerships to help boost sales.
Hewlett-Packard yesterday announced a "microtower" PC product line, offering business users a smaller and less expensive desktop machine due to ship worldwide next month at street prices as low as $2499.
NEC is set to invest $US225 million into Packard Bell NEC (PB-NEC), and will take a majority position in the ailing PC vendor, officials said this week.
Building on the platform of its blossoming Toshiba notebook business, Melbourne-based distributor CHA has signed with NEC to deliver notebooks, PCs and servers
Preliminary analysis, according to IDC Australia, shows the Australian PC market grew between 10 and 12 per cent during the quarter, flying in the face of diminishing markets in Asia/Pacific and Japan, and eclipsing the worldwide growth of just seven per cent year-on-year.
In an effort to provide Taiwan's PC hardware industry with early access to technical information about its next-generation K7 processor, Advanced Micro Devices last week inaugurated a new facility dedicated to engineering support.
Cover up and use the bug spray liberally, as many as five software bugs have bitten Microsoft products and their users in the last few weeks.
Worldwide PC shipments reached 21.1 million units in the second quarter of this year, up 13.9 per cent over the same period last year, market researcher Dataquest said yesterday.
Due in large part to a lack of buy-in from senior management, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Asia are at risk of failing to achieve year 2000 compliance in time, creating a sense of "widespread panic" in the region.
Just a day after rewriting its road map for Basic PC Celeron processors, Intel last week did the same for its desktop/mobile and workstation/server Pentium II processors, detailing plans for faster, cheaper, cooler chips to debut next year.
Intel's troubled Xeon chip has hit another snag, this time in the error-correcting code (ECC) feature of the processor.
Attempting to appeal to high-end workstation users, Intel this week is making a series of announcements regarding investments and systems specifications designed to boost computing and graphics processing power for machines based on its chip designs.
Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have agreed to a technology cross-licensing deal that will give AMD access to Motorola's state of the art copper-based chip manufacturing technology.
Toshiba has dropped prices by up to 28 per cent across its range of notebooks. The official word is the prices were dropped to remain competitive.
Plans for Acer's planned takeover of Siemens Nixdorf 's PC manufacturing operations have run into some snags, the companies confirmed late last week, but both parties said the deal is definitely still alive and kicking.