Notebooks

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dell adds KACE K1000 inventory management to commercial notebooks

Dell is leveraging its software portfolio in its hardware products here, something we will likely see more of from them, as they have assembled and consolidated their software offerings to the point where they are now ready for a more aggressive push.