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| Dell unveils new servers, says not a PC company |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-02-28 22:48:24 |
| "Dell launched a new line of servers for enterprise customers, boosting its corporate business unit and shifting its focus further away from consumers, who are increasingly choosing such devices as Apple's iPad. Chief Executive Michael Dell said his namesake company is no longer a personal computer company and has transformed itself into a business that sells services and products to corporations, a lucrative market that he said is worth $3 trillion." PC has become a dirty word. All part of the war on general purpose computing. |
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| who is anymore? |
| By Adurbe on 2012-02-28 23:17:10 |
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IBM arnt Apple arnt HP arnt now Dell arnt Acer must me having a party!! (until tomorrow when they decide they arnt either..) |
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| RE: who is anymore? |
| By fran on 2012-02-28 23:27:22 |
| Just about every PC maker is struggling except Lenovo. |
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| The times... |
| By thavith_osn on 2012-02-28 23:43:23 |
| ...they are a chang'in |
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| Future |
| By CapEnt on 2012-02-29 00:31:41 |
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The future is soft-capped general purpose computers... As much as i hate do admit, PC as we know is on a dead end. It can't really compete with a machine with no cables, no mechanical articulations to wear out, a brain-dead OS, a dock if in need of a physical keyboard and a larger screen and a 'longer than any laptop' battery for mobility. And more: a tablet i can imagine it being truly personal, with every single member of a family with his own even from their earliest age, carrying it around like a paper notebook. I can't see this even with ultra-portable laptops. The market for such device is a order of magnitude larger than anything that current PCs ever had even of their apex. |
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| About time |
| By Lorin on 2012-02-29 01:24:45 |
| Nothing worse than buying a dozen Dell computers for the office and finding that each one is different even though they have the same model number and were ordered at the same time. |
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| RE[2]: who is anymore? |
| By woegjiub on 2012-02-29 02:30:17 |
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Due to the Thinkpads? Those machines are superb, and obviously widely used in business. |
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| RE[3]: who is anymore? |
| By fran on 2012-02-29 05:08:48 |
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Agree, thinkpads are terrific. The main reason is demographics and the Lenovo's excellent marketing. They are the top vendor in the world’s leading market, China. And growing strong in countries like Brazil and slowly climbing the brand ladder to the top. They are there and marketing in big countries where people are buying their first PC device and not secondary devices. |
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| RE: Future |
| By WorknMan on 2012-02-29 05:30:05 |
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> As much as i hate do admit, PC as we know is on a dead end. It can't really compete with a machine with no cables, no mechanical articulations to wear out, a brain-dead OS, a dock if in need of a physical keyboard and a larger screen and a 'longer than any laptop' battery for mobility. Unfortunately, I think you're right. The only real way to keep people from breaking their computers is to make them idiot-proof. And in doing so, you end up removing most of the functionality |
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| RE: About time |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-02-29 07:34:22 |
| I recently ordered 47, they were all the same... but the NIC refused to work until I installed an update. |
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| RE[2]: Future |
| By CapEnt on 2012-02-29 10:55:33 |
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Ya. But this is about preventing the computer from breaking itself too. See, the greatest strength of PCs is also his biggest weakness: freedom to do whatever you want with the hardware, including making new boards by our own. But this made OS and system software maintenance a hell. The near infinite permutations that you can do with the hardware gave rise to all kinds of loose hardware standards that sometimes do not agree with each other without some gross hacks, huge amounts poorly designed hardware who interfaces with the system in a too low level (not a USB, but PCI/PCIe boards), overcomplex north/south bridges and motherboards who need to support all kinds of stuff plugged in it, power management systems that are almost a OS by his own in complexity (ACPI), huge basic software (UFI and newer BIOSes) who needs to cover more and more obscure functionality to be "universal"... and the OS must support all this to be usable. The PC right now is a infinite band wagon for stacked obscure standards with near 30 years of legacy stuff on top, that you should code your OS to work with. All these stuff forced OS developers to craft layers upon layers of code to hide the complexity of the hardware from the user, creating a range of problems of their own, and making the OS somewhat fragile, something that can stop working for no discernible reason even in the hands of a advanced user. One day is a new hardware who introduces bus noise in combination with some chipset brand, another day is a kernel module who need to interface with a poorly specified hardware going crazy, and sometimes we have these dreaded BIOS option that can make a hardware freeze aleatorily but if you disable you loose power management or shutdown another board... and the list goes on. The tablet, in essence, has more in common with a game console than a PC: is a return to a clean design that is easy to keep. This came in expense of flexibility, but the reliability that you gain will make up for it. |
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