Tag Archive for Notebooks

HP looks to channel to drive new Pavilion gamer lineup

HP made its first announcement of a consumer product family at a channel event, as it expects the channel will sell almost all of these new rigs, and while much of it will go through etailers and retailers, there is a VAR channel play here as well.

Panasonic enhances program benefits for exclusive Prime partners

In addition to providing increased benefits for those partners who elect to sell only Panasonic rugged notebooks, Panasonic has also increased its investment in a channel account team to provide more reps to work with partners.

“I Don’t Want More Partners:” Dell EMC Channel Chief John Byrne

At a partner gathering in Toronto, Byrne recounted Dell EMC’s channel trumps – but also detailed where the company needs to improve, and provided broad hints about upcoming channel changes.

D&H Canada continues strong growth with 26 per cent overall sales growth in 2016

Growth was good pretty much across all D&H segments, although notebooks, collaboration and video conference solutions, systems components, and even printers, all did exceptionally well.

D&H Canada again posts growth numbers many times the industry norm

Storage, video conference, monitors and software and licensing all came in around 40 per cent or more. Greg Tobin, General Manager in Canada, discusses why D&H did much better than the industry average.

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.

Dell lays out aggressive strategy to partners for North America expansion

Dell’s North American head Bill Rodrigues laid out Dell’s plans for growth to partners at Dell’s PartnerDirect Summit at Dell World.

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 ultra thin and light Elitebook 1020 highlights HP notebook announcements

The major news here is the introduction of an entirely new product, the HP EliteBook Folio 1020 family, which HP is touting as the thinnest and lightest business-class notebooks in the industry, and which is targeted mainly at the executive market.

‘One Lenovo’ philosophy to guide both smartphone, server integrations

Lenovo’s view is that the telcos are the preferred route to market for Motorola, but Lenovo also wants to go to market with alternative routes as well, to get more devices to more people.

HP Chromebooks Reflect Erosion in Windows Dominance

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At a time when HP CEO Meg Whitman says former allies Microsoft and Intel are now rivals, HP’s move towards Chromebook show the challenges Windows faces.