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.
While HP highlighted its HP ZBook Studio, a brand new model in the ZBook family, the major enhancements to the whole family were arguably bigger news.
The new mobile lock is designed for devices smaller than 12 mm in thickness, but is compatible with traditional lock slots as well.
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.
The big and beefy get bigger and beefier as HP updates its workstations to include the latest Haswell processors, greater RAM and storage density.
The new modular ThinkCentre Tiny-in-One 23 was designed to deal with the issue that repairs for AIOs have traditionally been more expensive.
The Surface 3 tablet-laptop hybrid went on sale over the weekend, marking Microsoft’s entry into competitor status with its OEM and reseller partners.
Lenovo moves rebates to the front end, adds a new server edition of its combat kits.
“Samsung Team of Empowered Partners” — or STEP — will consolidate channel resources and serve as a launch pad for expanding its reseller network.
New Dell M2800 seeks to put workstations in the hands of customer who would otherwise have gone white box.
Lenovo overtook HP again in quarterly PC shipments, becoming the largest personal computer manufacturer in the world. But the PC market continues to shrink.
CEO Heins: “In five years, I don’t there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.”
Intel suffers a 25 percent drop in its Q1 profits as it attempts to adjust to the rapidly changing face of IT
Gartner estimates desktop and notebook PC shipments falling by one-fifth over the next four years, while tablets and smartphone sales skyrocket
100-plus million PCs are in need of an update, and either new PC innovation or the looming XP deadline will drive the refresh
Chipmaker outlines plans for the future of the tablet and the ultrabook at its Intel Solutions Summit
Launch date confirmed, but Microsoft fails to scratch the Surface at WPC
Steve Dallman says Ultrabook, Xeon and all-in-ones will boost channel business
CJ Bruno on why Ultrabook will be as transformative as Centrino was in its day
CJ Bruno on the market for system-builder all-in-one desktops and much more
