Archive for the ‘Notebook PCs’ Category

The Asus Eee PC and UMPCs

Friday, November 30th, 2007

by John Jacobs, Director, Notebook Market Research Asus’s somewhat strangely named (at least to me) Eee PC was launched recently with a decent amount of fanfare. The device has a 7" 800 × 480 display, 4 or 8 GB flash SSD (solid state drive), has about 3.5 hours of battery life, ...

Acer, Gateway, Lenovo and Packard Bell

Monday, August 27th, 2007

By John Jacobs, Director of Notebook Market Research So, it looks like the rumors that have been bandied about the PC industry for well over a year are finally true. Acer will acquire gateway for US$710 million. So, what does this acquisition do for Gateway and what does it ...

What do YOU want in your next notebook PC?

Monday, May 21st, 2007

By John Jacobs, Director of Notebook Market Research While I was sitting here staring at the display of my 15.4” 1440 × 400 MacBook Pro (all 300 nits of it), which happens to be plugged into a 20” 1680 × 1050 Dell monitor (also 300 nits), as well as reviewing e-mail ...