LG X140 Netbook Features Review – Launch In Asia & Middle East
Posted on July 27th, 2010 | 0 CommentsIt’s raining netbooks of late and the latest to drop in is the new LG X140 from Korea. The netbook is yet another machine running the Microsoft Windows 7 OS – something that appears to be the flavor of the season and is powered by Intel’s Atom N475 1.83GHz processor. The display measures 10.1-inches and [...]
Dell Inspiron M101z Price And Technical Specification Review
Posted on July 27th, 2010 | 0 CommentsWe have not talked a lot about the Dell Inspiron series in the past few weeks. In May this year, there was talk about the new Dell Inspiron M301z laptop which was noted to run on AMD’s Nile line of processors. Now, here is another laptop from the Inspiron series which carries a lot of [...]
Toshiba SmartPad Tablet PC Launch In September?
Posted on July 21st, 2010 | 0 CommentsMark Whittard – the Marketing Director at Toshiba made a rather uncanny reference to a new Toshiba Smartpad that is on the company’s manufacturing pipeline for the year. According to him, the new Toshiba Smartpad would be a touchscreen tablet PC that will launch during the September or October time scale. That’s less than two [...]
Age Of Average Workplace Computer : 4.4 Years & Running Windows XP
Posted on July 13th, 2010 | 0 CommentsIt’s the proverbial half-glass-full scenario. At the recent Microsoft Worldwide partners conference, Tammi Reller, the CVP of Microsoft Windows has revealed that nearly 74% of the present day workplace PCs run Windows XP – the nearly decade old Windows Operating System which has since then been replaced by Windows Vista and now Windows 7. It’s [...]
Number Of Windows 7 Licenses Sold Crosses 150 Million
Posted on June 24th, 2010 | 0 CommentsMicrosoft has announced that the company has sold over 150 million copies of Windows 7 ever since the new operating system was launched in October 2009. With a selling rate of close to 1 license every second, Microsoft claims that Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history. The announcement comes exactly two [...]
No Windows XP On Netbooks From October
Posted on June 11th, 2010 | 0 CommentsMicrosoft has made a couple of important announcements with respect to their older Windows XP desktop platform. First is the news that support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 shall end on July 13, 2010. Users wishing to continue receiving support must soon upgrade to Windows XP SP 3 to continue receiving support till April [...]
MSI Slatebook Launch And Price Revealed?
Posted on May 26th, 2010 | 0 CommentsMSI is expected to launch its new Intel Zxxx range of processors enabled tablet PC next month at Computex. According to the company chairman, Joseph Hsu, the MSI Slatebook shall launch in USA and Europe by the third quarter of 2010 through partnerships with local network carriers. The MSI Slatebook will run on Windows 7 [...]
WebOS Tablet : HP Hurricane Launch In Q3
Posted on May 10th, 2010 | 0 CommentsThere have been several rumors over the past couple of weeks that Hewlett Packard may have just killed their much anticipated HP Slate. Other rumors pointed out to the Windows 7 OS being replaced. None of them have been confirmed so far. However, Examiner now reveals from “industry insiders” that HP may actually be replacing [...]
Asus Eee Pad OS Platforms : Windows 7 And Android
Posted on May 4th, 2010 | 0 CommentsAsustek CEO Jerry Shen has revealed that the upcoming Eee Pad tablet PC from the company will be in two OS versions : One ARM processor powered tablet running either Google Android or Chrome OS and another Intel atom processor powered device running Microsoft 7. While he did not elaborate, the latter is expected to [...]
Windows 7 Is Microsoft’s Fastest Selling Operating System
Posted on April 28th, 2010 | 0 CommentsMicrosoft launched its newest OS, Windows 7 on October 22, 2009. In just over 6 months, the company claims to have sold over 100 million licenses making it the fastest selling Microsoft Operating System ever. Making the announcement, Microsoft CFO Peter Klein said that with this, Windows 7 was now available in one out of [...]