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1. Lenovo Launches All-in-One Desktop PC for SMBs

   [ Blog ] Topic: Desktops and Workstations | Author: Paul Mah | Date Published: 11/05/2009

   Lenovo early this week announced its first all-in-one desktop designed for the SMB, which the company says will ship by at the end of November.  In an all-in-one, the main chassis containing the processor and motherboard are integrated into the back of the LCD display. A departure from bulky...

2. First Windows 7 Deployment Update: Under $26 Cost; $852 Annual Benefit

   [ Blog ] Topic: Windows 7 | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 10/29/2009

   I got a number of questions both in this blog and in e-mail as a result of writing about the first big Windows 7 deployment. I thought it might be more interesting to address them in another post. The biggest question was how much does it cost to roll the product out, and one analyst posted a crazy...

3. Where Now, Virtual PC?

   [ Blog ] Topic: Virtualization | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 04/05/2007

   With all the talk about Microsoft's new Vista licenses for virtualized PCs last week, I was intrigued by this take from Redmond Magazine's Doug Barney . The question is whether we'll need PCs with disk drives anymore. To which, I would have to admit, the answer is no. But with that in...

4. Laptops as Desktop Replacements Save Space, Add Mobility

   [ Blog ] Topic: Laptops | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 04/19/2007

   People tend to focus on miniaturization when thinking about emerging devices. It's not always small, smaller, smallest, however. This PC Magazine piece suggests that some laptops are big enough -- in terms of capabilities -- to replace desktop PCs. This isn't a new idea. The attractions of...

5. Apps, Not OS Itself, Key to Desktop Linux Uptake

   [ Blog ] Topic: Desktops and Workstations | Author: KenHardin | Date Published: 08/06/2007

   ZDNet 's Dana Blankenhorn has an interesting post suggesting that uniformity in the Linux desktop market -- i.e., fewer distributions -- may be the key to finally seizing marketshare from Windows. Blankenhorn suggests that perhaps Ubuntu, with re-selling endorsements from Dell and Acer, may...

6. Will SMBs Go for Linux Desktop? Red Hat Thinks So

   [ Blog ] Topic: Linux Distributions | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 03/27/2007

   Could it be that SMBs will provide the push needed to advance the much-discussed yet still largely hypothetical idea of the Linux desktop? Maybe so, if Linux distributor Red Hat has anything to do with it. Its latest platform release, Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5, bundles together an Advanced...

7. VARs Would Like Bigger Piece of Apple Pie

   [ Blog ] Topic: Apple | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 07/09/2007

   These days we are always within an iPhone's throw of a story about Apple's rising fortunes. Apple was copping considerable buzz even before the much-hyped device was introduced and prompted people (at least one person, anyway) to do crazy things like pay $305 for an iPhone shopping bag on...

8. The Virtual Workstation: Bigger than the Data Center?

   [ Blog ] Topic: Desktop Virtualization | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 10/23/2006

   Ever since Parallels came out with virtualization software allowing you to run Windows and the Mac OS on a Mac workstation, people have been wondering how long it would take VMware to get into the act. Well, the company finally let slip that it is working on the Fusion platform that will let...

9. Mac vs. PC: And the Winner Is...Nobody

   [ Blog ] Topic: Desktops and Workstations | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 08/03/2007

   Sorry, I just can't resist another Mac vs. PC post. I guess watching platform enthusiasts tear each other apart is akin to watching a lion devour a wildebeest on those nature shows: troubling, yet oddly entertaining. This week's show was kicked off by Lynn Greiner at CIO.com , who argued that...

10. Sun and Intel Together Again

    [ Blog ] Topic: Desktops and Workstations | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 10/24/2007

    It looks like Sun and Intel are together again in the workstation space. Sun just introduced the new Ultra 24 desktop , matching a Core 2 Duo, Quad or Extreme processor with an nVidia card and up to 8 GB of memory. And in yet another example of Sun's new-found determination to open up its...

11. Intel Ramps Up Penryn Production

    [ Blog ] Topic: Processors | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 10/26/2007

    Intel keeps ratcheting up the pressure on AMD in the race toward smaller chip processes, opening up a $3 billion factory in Arizona this week slated to churn out 25,000 45 nanometer Penryn wafers a month. This comes barely a year after AMD moved from 90 nanometer to 65 nanometer with the Athlon...

12. Group Promotes Macs in the Enterprise

    [ Blog ] Topic: Mac OS | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 07/03/2008

    There's a trade alliance for just about every conceivable enterprise activity these days, so I guess it was only a matter of time before the Macs-in-the-enterprise crowd got into the act. Software firms Parallels, Atempo, Centrify, Group Logic and LANrev (but not Apple itself) have formed the...