Intel's tablet adventure looking more like its netbook disaster
Intel's rise and fall in tablets are starting to resemble the company's misadventures in netbooks less than a decade ago.
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News about netbooks
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Apple unveils minor bumps to MacBook Pro laptops
Apple has refreshed the MacBook Pro line with minor upgrades of the processor, a small price cut to the aged non-Retina model, and additional RAM for the least-expensive Retina configurations.
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Chromebooks getting VMware virtual desktop service
VMware will offer virtual desktop services for Google's Chromebooks, allowing them to run Windows applications on the pared-down laptops based on the Chrome OS.
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Lenovo and Apple grew as bottom fell out of PC market in Western Europe
PC shipments in Western Europe declined by 20.5 percent during the first quarter: The only vendors to see shipments grow were Lenovo and Apple, which returned to the top five.
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Acer ships $199 C7 Chromebook
Acer has started shipping the C7 Chromebook netbook starting at US$199 with Google's Chrome OS and Intel's Celeron processor.
Features about netbooks
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Forget the high margins, Apple - cut iPad Mini prices
Apple sold 14 per cent fewer iPads in the quarter that ended June 30 than in the same quarter last year, while the revenue from those sales plummeted by 27 per cent. The solution? Cut prices, say analysts.
