The real hard sell is likely to happen this summer when it comes bundled free of charge on new machines. According to a survey of almost 2,000 iMac buyers by research firm Audits and Surveys, 29.4 per cent of those who bought the brightly coloured...
Dell, which ditched floppies as standard equipment on its Inspiron 4150 and 8250 notebooks last summer, will let customers configure one of its top-of-the-line Dimension 8250 PCs without a floppy drive by the end of this month, company...
While executives admit it may take a while for Intel to regain its footing in flash memory, they're certain PC products are headed in the right direction. Analysts had expected Intel to earn a profit of 12 cents a share on revenue of $6.7bn...
But analysts had expected AMD to post a loss of 48 cents a share on revenue of $683m, according to a survey by earnings tracking firm First Call, matching the company's own first-quarter revenue prediction.
Specifically, Dell grew its initial US market share in printers faster than in any new product category in its history. In just one year, Dell garnered a share of more than 10 per cent in inkjet printers, and in the upper teens in all-in-one printers.
In February, company executives indicated that 64-bit chips for client computers -- which will be able to access more data through a larger pool of memory than today's chips -- wouldn't likely come until Microsoft releases Longhorn, a future...