Tag: Notebooks
‘Our expectation is that three years after launch, AI PCs will represent between 40 percent and 50 percent of total PC shipments,’ HP CEO Enrique Lores says ahead of its second-quarter earnings release, which reports that falling printer demand offset commercial PC growth. HP Inc. CEO Enrique Lores said the company expects AI PCs to…
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‘Enterprise clients usually have some level of company-wide program as far as sustainability goes. Toner recycling programs have been offered to all of our clients for many years. We continue to do so. If they wish to take advantage of it, it’s quite simple for us to start up with them. All of our vendors…
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Qualcomm is stepping up the competition against Intel and AMD in the PC processor space with its new Snapdragon X chips, which it says enable faster performance, better on-device AI processing and longer battery life in several high-end laptops from HP, Dell and Lenovo. Microsoft is signaling the dawn of a new era for personal…
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“We’re going to have a big refresh moment,” Microsoft VP Mark Linton tells CRN in an interview. Copilot+ PCs, which Microsoft bills as “the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built,” carry a massive partner opportunity as Windows 10 end of support spurs customers into looking at buying new devices. “We’re going to have a…
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‘Over the last 25 years, how many times have the analysts come and said print is dead. Print is declining. It’s shifting. It’s not going away. I don’t believe in our lifetime we’re going to see it disappear completely. And as a dealer, you just have to be ready to adapt to whatever changes. And…
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A small player in the PC market, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X launch for Microsoft’s new category of Copilot+ PCs marks the chip designer’s biggest move in the space to date, creating a new wave of competition not only for Intel and AMD but also Apple. Qualcomm launched its highly anticipated Arm-based Snapdragon X processors on Monday,…
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‘We are bringing real joy and a sense of wonder back to creation on the PC,’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella showcased the tech giant’s new Windows PC category, Copilot+ PCs, which promises to “unleash the power of distributed AI across the edge” and bring AI power from the cloud…
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‘We were up against IBM, up against Compaq. The competition was immense in size. They were sophisticated and they had tremendous resources,’ Lee Walker told CRN. “We had two board of directors. Michael and me.” The most powerful computers in the world, running the most demanding applications, for governments and enterprises are designed by the…
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‘Never been a better time to be a Dell channel partner. We are fully committed to our channel as we have been. The record sign-ups that we have seen for Dell Tech World certainly indicate the continuing interest and passion from our channel partners and we’ll have a lot to say about how we can…
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A distribution executive weighs in on the potential impacts of President Joe Biden’s upcoming tariff increases for Chinese semiconductors and lithium-ion batteries on channel partners: ‘There could be enough of those things inside of something to raise the price enough to be painful.’ President Joe Biden’s administration announced on Tuesday that he will raise tariffs…
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