The PC market’s fourth-quarter shipments exceeded 90 million for the second straight year while Apple’s Mac shipments grows double…
Tag: Windows PCs
Linus is wrong about Macs being slower than PCs
He’s wrong about almost everything in the video…
Study: Windows 8 PCs loaded with crapware
Crapware has long been a thorn in the sides of Windows sufferers…
Windows 8 face-plant: U.S. notebook and desktop sales down 21% in Windows 8’s first month
Windows 8 has delivered no bump to flagging consumer PC sales in the U.S., a retail research analyst said today…
Catastrophe Theory: Microsoft on the verge of a sudden collapse?
Last week, usability expert Jakob Nielsen wrote a devastating critique of Windows 8…
Beleaguered HP takes $8.8 billion writedown on Autonomy; forecasts profit miss on slumping Windows PC sales
Hewlett-Packard Co. took an $8.8 billion charge citing…
Windows PC users plan mass exodus to Apple Mac, iPad
42 percent of customers looking for new computers say they’ll be picking up an Apple product…
The Microsoft Tax: Malicious worm on Skype lets hackers hold Windows PCs for ransom; Macintosh unaffected
Yet another ‘malicious worm’ that infects Windows PCs…
Apple’s iPad is clearly cannibalizing PC sales
Mac shipments grew faster than the overall PC market in calendar Q3 for the 25th quarter in a row…
Apple’s iPad, MacBook Air kneecapping so-called ‘Ultrabooks’
We have been privy to some very interesting research that shows that the market for laptops…
IDC analyst: Apple MacBook wins, Windows ultrabook fails
Ultrabook numbers will fall far short of Intel’s aggressive market share targets…
PC assemblers hope (pray) that Apple’s iPad is delaying, not replacing notebook purchases
Notebook manufacturers are hopeful that the recent debut of Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors…
Microsoft’s Surface tablets provokes ‘sense of betrayal’ among Windows PC assemblers
Microsoft Corp kept its personal computer partners largely in the dark…
Smartphones reignite the OS wars
Smartphones have become the preferred computer of the masses…
Apple’s new iPad could dramatically alter the Windows PC upgrade cycle
Today, tablets are everywhere and Apple controls the market…
As Apple’s new iPad 3 looms large, some see decline of personal computers
The chief executive of Apple, Timothy D. Cook, has a prediction…
Tim Cook: Apple the only company innovating in personal computers, and have been for some time
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook doesn’t think much of his competitors at Hewlett-Packard and Dell…
Stifel cuts rating on Dell; says Apple encroaching more on Dell’s core PC business
The analyst this morning cut his rating on Dell to Underperform…
Apple succeeds in business without really trying
Apple Inc., without much effort on its part, is making rapid headway in selling to corporations…
Give iPad some credit for Apple’s brisk Macintosh sales
Windows PC sales for the fourth quarter of 2011 proved disappointing…
Apple Mac, Windows PC killer
If you want to make the PC market’s ugly number even uglier, back out Apple…
U.S. Windows PC shipments drop 6% in holiday quarter as Apple Macs surge 21%
U.S. holiday sales were not all that exciting for Windows PC peddlers…
HP aims to stand out from CES mobile device frenzy with new desktop PCs
Hewlett-Packard “plans to release a pair of desktop PCs…
Dell quits netbooks
While very few are still buying netbooks, many manufacturers…
Acer CEO: We’re going to stop selling cheap, unprofitable crap
Acer CEO J.T. Wang has settled on a turnaround strategy for the company…
RAM makers lose billions as iPad challenges traditional PCs
Apple Inc.’s iPad is the bane of computer-memory makers, worsening…