idc.com - 3/5/2009
—
PC Shipments To Drop 4.5% in 2009, According to IDC 05 Mar 2009 FRAMINGHAM, Mass., March 5, 2009 Worldwide PC shipments fell 1.9% in the fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08) following five years of almost uninterrupted double-digit growth. As the economic environment continues to deteriorate in 2009, ...
geeky-gadgets.com - 3/4/2009
—
geeky-gadgets.com —
This has to be one of the coolest
PC case mods we have seen so far here
at geeky gadgets , the Great Pyramid PC Mod, made by modder polo360x from the Techpowerup forums. This amazing case was made from a customized Luxor Pyramid case, which was made ...
(more)
Great Pyramid PC Mod
reghardware.co.uk - 3/3/2009
—
reghardware.co.uk —
Asus' Eee PC Keyboard could appear as early
as May the firm's bosses confirmed at CeBit today.
Company chairman Jonney Shih said the firm was shooting for a Q2 launch for the the device, which incorporates a fully fledged PC and touchpad into a ...
(more)
Asus keyboard PC due May. Or maybe June • Register Hardware
liliputing.com - 3/3/2009
—
liliputing.com —
Asus officially launched the Eee PC 1008HA at
CeBIT today. The netbook is just 1 inch thick
and weighs 2.4 pounds, which is pretty light by Asus 10 inch netbook standards. The mini-laptop, formerly known as the Eee PC Shell almost looks more ...
(more)
Asus launches Eee PC 1008HA ultra-thin netbook
Comments
Blog Reactions
Worldwide PC Shipments Fell 1.9% in Q4, IDC Says
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily —
... Worldwide PC unit shipments fell 1.9% in the fourth quarter, according to research firm IDC. IDC said units will fall by more than 8% in the 2009 first half. IDC sees gradual improvement after that, will small positive growth in Q4. ...
PC Shipments To Fall By 4.5% This Year
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... However, IDC predicts that the need for replacement PCs and rising demand in emerging markets such as Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan; Latin America; Central and Eastern Europe; Middle East and Africa; and Canada, would drive shipments up 6.7% next year worldwide. The United States will be slower to recover with shipments expected to drop 1.3% in 2010. "Slackening demand in the consumer market is stifling the engine of growth for U.S. PC shipments," IDC researcher Richard Shim said in a statement released Thursday. In 2011, global shipment growth would return to double ...
PC Shipments To Fall By 4.5% This Year
TechWeb —
... However, IDC predicts that the need for replacement PCs and rising demand in emerging markets such as Asia/Pacific, excluding Japan; Latin America; Central and Eastern Europe; Middle East and Africa; and Canada, would drive shipments up 6.7% next year worldwide. The United States will be slower to recover with shipments expected to drop 1.3% in 2010. "Slackening demand in the consumer market is stifling the engine of growth for U.S. PC shipments," IDC researcher Richard Shim said in a statement released Thursday. In 2011, global shipment growth would return to double ...
Acer Pins High Hopes on Netbooks Despite of Lowering Demand
X-bit labs —
... devices in 2010. According to the executive, supplies of netbooks will also increase to 25 30 million in 2009 and to 50 million in 2010. Acer projects that it will continue to remain the largest supplier of netbooks on the globe and will have 40% to 50% market share, thus, will ship up to 15 million and up to 25 million of netbooks in 2009 and 2010, respectively. While predictions of Acer Group s chairman look impressive, they contradict data from independent analysts. According to IDC, worldwide shipments of portable personal computers will total 148.6 million of units in ...
Related Content
In Depth: The 5-step guide to fixing almost any PC problem
techradar.com 5/30/2009 — Troubleshooting is curious skill. It's part detective work, part methodical experimentation and part inspired guesswork, and part Zen Buddhism. That's a lot of parts but you need them all to be able to sift through a list of symptoms, identify the fault, work out an appropriate remedy and not ...
Windows on Netbook PCs: A Year in Review
windowsteamblog.com 4/4/2009 — It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since we first started to see netbook PCs running Windows come to market. Little did we know that these devices would evolve so much in such a short time. A year ago, they were Internet-centric devices defined ...
Eee PC 1002H Shows Up at the Asus Site
eeepc.net 3/26/2009 — Asus has put up a product site for yet again another netbook in the 1000 series. This time is branded as the Eee PC 1002H. This is different from the previously announced Eee PC 1002HA folks, because the 1002HA is listed above the 1002H on the Asus ...
Asus Eee PC 1005HA review
liliputing.com 6/24/2009 —
The Asus Eee PC 1005HA netbook features an excellent balance of size and battery life. At a glance, the netbook looks virtually identical to the Eee PC 1008HA , but it’s both thicker and heavier. The added depth gives the 1005HA room ...
PC market growth expected to slow to a crawl in 2009
tgdaily.com 12/4/2008 — IDC updated its PC market forecast and there were few surprises and if
you have been following the industry and the general economic drama of
recent weeks you already know the bottom line. The full impact of the
credit crunch, downsizings and trimmed ...
In Depth: How to upgrade your Sky+HD's hard drive
techradar.com 5/30/2009 — When Sky HD started nearly three years ago, there were only eight hi-def channels to choose from (including BBC HD). By February 2008 that number had increased to 31. But in that time the capacity of the internal hard disk drive that the Sky+HD box uses as a recording medium has not been ...
Mobile Broadband Growth Hits Major Slide
eweek.com 4/14/2009 — Mobile Internet service providers experience a precipitous drop in fourth quarter 2008 new subscriber growth, breaking a string of six consecutive quarters of double digit growth. New comScore study also finds that PC data card usage actually ...
PC Game Sales: 47% Of PC Purchases Are Digital
rockpapershotgun.com 1/30/2009 — Written by Kieron Gillen on January 29, 2009 at 1:40 pm. This is totally not an easy one to illustrate Or so say the RPS readers anyway. I wanted to do a follow up on the polls Jim ran a few weeks ago, highlighting the results and what they say about ...
Lenovo erects Atom tower —
The Register 3/5/2009
Taking the fun out of DIY Chinese PC maker and server wannabee Lenovo has announced a new line of systems based on Intel's Atom embedded x64 processor. Even a "real" PC maker believes there are customer workloads where modestly powered x86 and x64 ...
Follow TechBlips on Twitter
