The kids at Engadget are thrilled with themselves today. Turns out their build up of the Dell Mini 5 has paid off–existence of Dell’s tablet PC appears verified. And, as proof, Engadget is offering up images from leaked internal Dell documents .
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As 2009 came to a close, the top five PC makers each held their position, but it’s the battle for second place that’s particularly interesting. According to iSuppli, Acer grew by 21 percent in 2009, ending the year with 38.5 million shipments, up from 31.8 million in 2008. No other top five PC maker enjoyed more growth. Meanwhile, Dell was the only top five vendor to post a decline in shipments for the year, dropping 9.9 percent from 43.3 million PCs to 38.96 million. That means Dell shipped enough to maintain a lead over Acer as the second largest PC vendor, but only by a hair (0.2 percent)
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Dell has just announced release of a new Vostro series, the 3000 , which will add some punch to Dell’s business laptop offerings. The 3000 series, which will range in size from 13-inches to 17-inches, will sport a range of Intel’s newer Core processors. The new Vostros are the 3300 , with a 13.3-inch display, the 3400 , with a 14-inch display, the 3500 , with a 15.6-inch display, and the 3700 , with a 17.3-inch display. All four Vostros have the Mobile Intel HM57 Express chipset, and are paired with i3 and i5 dual core processors, except for the 3700, which has the option of an i7 quad core processor
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Apparently, the Dell Adamo XPS is so thin that people are having considerable trouble sighting it on the company’s site. Tech site Electronista was the first to report the ultrathin laptop’s vanishing act. Although its product page on Dell’s site remains intact, it is no longer available for purchase there. All attempts to purchase the Adamo XPS are met with an error : “the e-value code you entered is either incorrect, not eligible on the Dell Home & Home Office website, or has expired.” It is difficult to conceive a reasonable explaination for its disappearance at this stage
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Both WiMAX and LTE are vying to be the successor to the current 3G mobile data standards. The first 4G LTE networks are going up around the world, but in the US they have yet to roll out. What we do see stateside is WiMAX 4G service beginning to crop up. Taking note of that, Dell has decided to offer a WiMAX option on the new version of the Mini 10
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HP, the world’s number one laptop manufacturer, makes an enormous range of machines, including what they describe as business-rugged models. The EliteBook 6930p is one such laptop and is designed for use by small, medium and large businesses. The 14.1-inch produces a sharp enough image for reading and editing office documents. Unlike the Hi-Grade’s screen, it doesn’t feature a shiny Super-TFT coating, meaning there are no reflections in bright or rapidly changing light to worry about
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Although not a specialist in rugged machines, Hi-Grade – a company based in the UK – has released the Notino R5500. It is a semi-rugged machine which isn’t designed for quite the same extreme conditions as the Dell E6400 XFR and Getac B300, but has a variety of features that make it considerably more durable than the average laptop currently on sale. The 15.4-inch screen boasts a 1280 x 768-pixel resolution and is very crisp and clear. The screen itself is shock-mounted to reduce the risk of damage from an impact and is also very bright, making it great for viewing in brightly lit conditions
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Dell is apparently hoping to reach out into the enterprise storage space and has placed a bid to acquire clustered storage vendor Exanet based out of Israel. “The transaction has not yet been approved by the Israel court, so we won’t speculate on its completion or timing,” a Dell spokesman said in response to a Computerworld inquiry. The bid included an offer to purchase Exanet’s assets, which are mostly patents, and other intellectual property. The offer must be court approved through a Chapter 7 liquidation in Israel. Exanet also has offices in New York, Europe, and Japan
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In a move sure to make Dell’s investors happy, the OEM said it plans to siphon off a portion of its custom servers designed by its Data Center Solutions division for large Web entities like Facebook and Ask.com, and sell them to large enterprises who perhaps don’t need thousands of servers every year. “What we’ve found is, there are a whole bunch of other customers who want access to those designs but who are not buying in those types of quantities,” said Andy Rhodes, a director with Dell’s DCS group. “So the big thing we’re solving now, and we’ll talk more publicly about over the next couple of months, is how to provide more of that capability to many, many more customers.” Some of those custom servers will eventually be turned into standardized products ready to be sold to comparatively smaller firms, as well as smaller Internet companies. According to reports, these will be included under a new brand called CloudEdge. “The markets we’re looking at are people building public clouds, but one tier below what we’ve been focusing on,” said Barton George, cloud evangelist for Dell.
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MSI’s C series is targeted at those after an everyday computing solution. The CX600-064UK is a part of that series and provides decent performance, an interesting design and mixed portability. It doesn’t stand out much, but is certainly worth a look. The 16-inch screen is bright and offers crisp colour reproduction. It can’t compare with the PC Nextday for detail levels, however, as the latter offers a higher resolution in a smaller size screen
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