Notebooks

Notebooks, Security

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

by Mark Cox • August 25, 2016

HP Sure View is available as an option on two HP commercial models, HP EliteBook 1040 and HP EliteBook 840.

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

by Mark Cox • May 10, 2016

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.

Dell promises to continue doubling down on PCs

by Mark Cox • April 14, 2016

Dell commercial boss Kirk Schell reiterated Dell’s commitment to the space and discussed some ways Dell intends to differentiate itself from the competition.

HP pushes design envelope with 10.4 mm thick Spectre

by Mark Cox • April 5, 2016

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

by Mark Cox • January 8, 2016

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

by Mark Cox • January 5, 2016

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

by Mark Cox • October 5, 2015

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

by Mark Cox • May 29, 2015

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.

Dell brings Vostro SMB notebooks back to North America

by Mark Cox • April 21, 2015

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.

Free Lenovo WRITEit app improves handwriting on Windows devices

by Mark Cox • April 16, 2015

Today, the app supports four Windows 8 Lenovo devices, with more on the road map for this year. An Android version is in development.

New Dell partner benefits kick in with new fiscal year

by Mark Cox • February 27, 2015

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

by Mark Cox • February 11, 2015

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.

HP announces next-gen workstation Ultrabooks

by Mark Cox • January 5, 2015

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.

Dell adds KACE K1000 inventory management to commercial notebooks

by Mark Cox • September 10, 2014

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.