Laptops/Notebooks News

Advanced Micro Devices has opened the door to embrace Google's Android operating system, but said it would continue to focus on Windows with its upcoming tablet and laptop chips.

In this era of ever-accelerating technological development, we all tend to be so fixated on the gizmos of the future that we rarely take the time to think about the glorious technology of the past.

Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new wave of Envy and Pavilion thin and light laptops, including an 11.6-inch touchscreen model priced aggressively at US$399. The lineup includes three TouchSmart laptops with touchscreens and two non-touch laptops.

Computer maker Lenovo Group said Thursday its latest quarterly profit rose 90 percent as sales of smartphones and mobile computing technology expanded.

HP has joined the nascent market for portable all-in-one desktop PCs with the announcement of the HP Envy Rove 20.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD wants to become more competitive with its larger rival Intel, and it is doing it by creating all-in-one chips dubbed accelerated processing units that combine graphics and processing in the same piece of silicon.

The Acer Aspire R7 offers an inventive and very flexible design at a reasonable price, with a full-HD display.

On the same day that HP had to admit to lackluster consumer PC sales , the company is announcing a new raft of consumer notebook computers.

Hewlett-Packard reported a 32% drop in profit for its second fiscal quarter, due partly to slower sales of PCs and servers.

The A6, A8 and A10 chips, code-named Richland, will be up to 12 percent faster than the comparable previous-generation processors code-named Trinity, which were released last year.

Say what you will about Microsoft 's Windows 8, it has certainly inspired personal-computer makers to shake up their offerings.

HP reported revenue of $27.6 billion for the three months that ended on April 30, down 10 percent from $30.7 billion a year ago.

The latest evidence of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s continuing downfall came in a quarterly earnings report released Wednesday.

Last month, Governor LePage announced the state would be ending its contract with Apple, giving Maine students Hewlett Packard laptops instead.

A high end Asus Taichi 21 DH71 with a Core i7 processor and 256GB SSD dropped to $1,000 today at Rakuten.

By personal computing, I mean PCs, tablets, as well as in the future also likely smartphones.

Revenue is expected to fall, which would make it the seventh consecutive quarter of comparable declines.

Intel lost the opportunity to power the iPhone, but the company is hard at work to make sure they don't get completely shut out of mobile hardware, and to do so they're hiring some old Apple talent.

"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a brand new Man of Steel -themed Toshiba laptop and it could be yours!" - in conjunction with Man of Steel from Warner Bros.

Yesterday's de facto standard architecture is commonly referred to as the, "controller-based" model, involving controllers and thin access points.