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Friday, January 18th, 2008
by John Jacobs, Director, Notebook Market Research
That’s not the exact quote from the Duchess of Windsor, but it’s close enough when talking about the latest and greatest notebook PC that Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced this past Tuesday at MacWorld in San Francisco. The MacBook Air, or MBA if you ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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