Laptops/Notebooks News

PC makers have been copying the Mac for years, but every now and then you just have to shake your head yet again.

Intel 's fourth-generation Core microarchitecture, formerly code-named Haswell, has been heralded for a long time, but it's finally arriving in a variety of low-power computing devices over the next month.

Few companies have had more drama in the past few years than Hewlett-Packard . Not only was CEO Mark Hurd fired in 2010 amid a sexual harassment investigation, but his successor, Leo Apotheker, also got the boot just a year later.

Haswell is coming out early next month, and it's everywhere in the news. Among other things, motherboard makers have been tripping over themselves to show off their upcoming Haswell-ready mobos.

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According to analysts, the wearable digital device by Apple termed the "iWatch" will be very useful indeed.

The chip maker is hoping the Temash, Kabini and Richland SoCs will bring gains in mobile device space vs.

CEO Yang has high hopes for Lenovo's products, such as the Yoga, a laptop whose screen can flip over, turning the device into a tablet.

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.