Notebooks

Data Centre

D&H Canada reignites with Dell  to expand line card with Dell solutions and services

November 7, 2025 Mark Cox 0
The revival of an old strategic partnership between D&H and Dell reflects the distributor’s desire to expand their line card and to invest in advancing partner growth.

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Artificial Intelligence

Getac unveils rugged F120 for Industrial field professionals

September 17, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Getac unveils rugged F120 for Industrial field professionals
Rugged computing vendor Getac has launched the F120, the world’s first fully rugged tablet that serves as both a Copilot+ PC form factor. The F120 comes with a large 12.2-inch screen and delivers powerful on-the-go AI performance to Industrial Field Professionals.

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Artificial Intelligence

Strategic use of AI by ASUS helps SMBs drive international growth

September 8, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Strategic use of AI by ASUS helps SMBs drive international growth
New AI-related data from ASUS has found that SMBs in both the US and Canada are strategically leveraging artificial intelligence  to drive successful international growth

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Artificial Intelligence

Acer announces new suite  of commercial products

September 5, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Acer announces new suite  of commercial products
The lineup includes the Acer TravelMate X14 AI Copilot+ PC, the new thin and light Swift Air 16, and three new projectors.

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Computers

HP doubles down on hybrid product and experience with CES announcements

January 4, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP doubles down on hybrid product and experience with CES announcements
New products with commercial market appeal include new All-in-Ones, an expanded DragonFly portfolio and new monitors covering hybrid workspaces ranging from the small to the very large.

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Computers

Panasonic unveils enhanced ‘Mark 2’ version of fully rugged TOUGHBOOK 33

February 17, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Panasonic unveils enhanced ‘Mark 2’ version of fully rugged TOUGHBOOK 33
Panasonic’s top-seller has the same form factor and durability features as before, but performance, flexibility, functionality and security improvements have been made.

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Mobility

Dell brings Chromebooks to the enterprise with Unified Workspace integration and enterprise models

August 29, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell brings Chromebooks to the enterprise with Unified Workspace integration and enterprise models
For the channel, the new Chromebook Enterprise models, and the addition of the Chromebook OS to Unified Workspace turns their Chromebook business from selling a box to schools into a differentiated enterprise solution.

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Notebooks

HP targets ‘visual hacking’ with HP Sure View integrated privacy screen

August 25, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP targets ‘visual hacking’ with HP Sure View integrated privacy screen
HP Sure View is available as an option on two HP commercial models, HP EliteBook 1040 and HP EliteBook 840.

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Notebooks

Lenovo launches new Chrome, Windows N-series laptops for K-12

May 10, 2016 Mark Cox 1
The new models include Lenovo’s first Yoga form factor for the K-12 market. Combat kits for the new offerings are also coming to channel partners.

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Notebooks

Dell promises to continue doubling down on PCs

April 14, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell promises to continue doubling down on PCs
Dell commercial boss Kirk Schell reiterated Dell’s commitment to the space and discussed some ways Dell intends to differentiate itself from the competition.

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Notebooks

HP pushes design envelope with 10.4 mm thick Spectre

April 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP pushes design envelope with 10.4 mm thick Spectre
HP’s new Spectre is a consumer product, so won’t be sold by the channel, but it of channel interest because of some interesting design decisions made to create the world’s thinnest notebook – while still using Core i5 and i7 processors.

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Notebooks

Dell adds XPS touches to commercial Latitude line

January 8, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell adds XPS touches to commercial Latitude line
Dell unveiled a host of new products at this year’s CES including new monitors and consumer notebooks, but for the channel, the main story is new commercial notebooks with consumer features taken from Dell’s XPS line.

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Notebooks

Millenial appeal underpins new HP commercial PC announcements at CES

January 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Millenial appeal underpins new HP commercial PC announcements at CES
The increasing impact of style and functionality from the consumer segment to the commercial PC space is not a new trend, but HP believes it has taken it to a new level with its latest announcements, designed to appeal to millennial customers both in their esthetics and through a new commitment to improving the notebook PC as a communications device.

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Computers

HP touts collaboration, security innovations in new, mainly AMD Elite products

October 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP touts collaboration, security innovations in new, mainly AMD Elite products
Several new desktops, all-in-ones and notebooks were announced, with HP emphasizing new design, security and collaboration features, some of which are unique to them.

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Hardware

Designing Dell: Dell’s Industrial Design team talks turkey with media

May 29, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Designing Dell: Dell’s Industrial Design team talks turkey with media
Dell’s hardware designers explain their original mandate, to turn Dell from a follower to a leader in product innovation, and discuss their design philosophy and principles that underlay the large degree of success they have in this area now compared to a decade ago.

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Mobility

Dell brings Vostro SMB notebooks back to North America

April 21, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell brings Vostro SMB notebooks back to North America
Dell reverses an earlier decision to make the Latitude its SMB notebook product in North America, and responds to customer demand with new 14 and 15 inch models.

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Mobility

Free Lenovo WRITEit app improves handwriting on Windows devices

April 16, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Free Lenovo WRITEit app improves handwriting on Windows devices
Today, the app supports four Windows 8 Lenovo devices, with more on the road map for this year. An Android version is in development.

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Channel Programs

New Dell partner benefits kick in with new fiscal year

February 27, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Dell partner benefits kick in with new fiscal year
Compared to last year, the changes to Dell’s partner program as the company begins a new fiscal year are much more modest, although the extension of rebates for new business to Registered partners will cause much cheer in that quarter.

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Mobility

Dell extends automated ProSupport Plus service to PCs and tablets

February 11, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell extends automated ProSupport Plus service to PCs and tablets
Dell sees a strong channel play for this extended support bundle for endpoints, and expects partners will do even better than they did with the initial bundles for the data centre.

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Computers

HP announces next-gen workstation Ultrabooks

January 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP announces next-gen workstation Ultrabooks
The Zbook 15u checks in at 6.3 lbs compared to 4.23 for the HP Zbook 14, while both have 5th-generation Intel Core processors, up to 16 GB of memory and up to 1.25 TB of storage.

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