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Intel Promotes Hefty, 27-inch Tablet Concept
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 10:35am | 526Read More...If Sony's (NYSE: SNE) oversized all-in-one PC/tablet combo was not big enough for consumers, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) might have the perfect replacement. According to DigiTimes, Intel has begun to push its so-called adaptive all-in-one PC concept -- which provides a platform to build semi-portable...
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Intel's New Strategy to Take on Apple's MacBook Air
Friday, February 1, 2013 - 2:49pm | 537Read More...More than one year ago, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced that it would take on Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) creative MacBook Air concept by building processors that were specially created for thin, lightweight laptops. This led to the birth of a new, trademarked brand of computers known as Ultrabooks....
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Is Apple's iPad, MacBook Air Behind the Death of the Netbook?
Thursday, December 27, 2012 - 12:17pm | 646Read More...Netbooks were supposed to be the future of portable computing. As smaller, thinner and lighter versions of traditional laptop computers, netbooks were designed to be an energy-friendly, cost-effective alternative to expensive PCs. Consumers were receptive to the idea but apprehensive of the price...
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GE's New Tech Could Revolutionize Apple's MacBook Air
Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 11:02am | 359Read More...General Electric (NYSE: GE) has developed an ultra-thin replacement for a key component that could one day allow Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and other manufacturers to design thinner laptops. Instead of employing noisy fans that take up an excessive amount of space, General Electric has developed a dual-...
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Intel Ultrabooks to Account for 40% of All Notebook Shipments in 2013
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 4:41pm | 390Read More...Ultrabooks were expected to account for 40 percent of all notebook shipments in 2012. After failing to achieve that goal, players within the industry expect to have much greater success in the new year. According to DigiTimes, the third-generation Ultrabook platform (codenamed Haswell) is...
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Half of All Notebooks Will be Intel Ultrabooks by 2016
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - 10:03am | 245Read More...GBI Research, a provider of business intelligence data, believes that Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) ailing Ultrabooks initiative will rebound as prices decline. By 2016, the research firm said that Ultrabooks prices will drop by roughly 50 percent, going from an average of $1,050 per unit to just $510...
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Can Intel Survive an Ultrabook Flop?
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 1:28pm | 756Read More...Investors may have hoped that Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) downward trend would soon come to an end, but a recent report could be a sign that things are about to get worse. Research firm IHS (NYSE: IHS) iSuppli has discovered that Ultrabooks -- the heavily hyped portable computers that were designed to...
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Intel Committed to 140 Ultrabooks, 40 Touch-Enabled Computers, 20 Windows 8 Tablets, and a $699 MSRP
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 12:20pm | 198Read More...Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) CEO Paul Otellini is ready to take on Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) MacBook Air with a stronger onslaught of competitors in the coming months and years. According to The Verge, the company is expecting 140 different Ivy Bridge Ultrabook designs -- 30 more than the company had...
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Did Apple or the Economy Cause the PC Sales Slump?
Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 2:18pm | 498Read More...Researchers blame the decline in PC sales on "weak demand amid economic uncertainties." But is the economy truly to blame for this unexpected sales slump? According to the Wall Street Journal, two industry research firms, Gartner (NYSE: IT) and International Data Corp., believe that the economy is...
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Can Sony and LL Cool J Compete with Apple?
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 12:21pm | 639Read More...The Japanese tech giant is attempting to one-up Apple -- again -- with a new line of Vaio laptops. But is it enough to save the company from certain doom? Probably not. While a comeback is always a possibility, Sony (NYSE: SNE) continues to go down a path of endless destruction. This morning...
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Has Intel Finally Beaten Apple?
Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 8:14am | 874Read More...The company behind the Core 2 Duo and Pentium processors is gearing up for its most astonishing year yet. According to DigiTimes (via AppleInsider), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) expects to ship 20 million to 30 million ultrabooks -- the thin, MacBook Air competitors -- by the end of 2012. In the following...
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Apple Crushes Windows by More Than 4 to 1?
Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 9:48am | 722Read More...As personal computer shipments decline in the United States, Apple's greatly increase. The increase is so great, in fact, that it suggests that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is actually growing the market beyond the presumed reach of the business. According to TechCrunch, Gartner (NYSE: IT) – an...
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Intel to pay $300M for a MacBook Air Killer
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 1:58pm | 243Read More...But will it be enough to persuade consumers? Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is willing to spend as much as $300 million to, as Bloomberg puts it, “back the development of technology to speed up the introduction of notebook computers it's calling ‘ultrabooks.'” According to Bloomberg, Intel plans to invest...
