Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Dell colors its laptop world (USATODAY.com)


Dell colors its laptop world (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Business computer-maker Dell plans to start aggressively courting consumers Tuesday- in part with new laptops colored flamingo pink. The No. 2 PC maker has always offered some consumer computers. But they tended to be offshoots of its business products, and usually amounted to only 15% of U.S. sales.

LG Files Lawsuit Against Quanta Computers
Quanta has been using these patents without LG’s permission to produce notebook computers that were supplied to U.S. computer companies.

Toshiba Launches Notebook With HD DVD Drive (TechWeb)
TechWeb - The PC maker hopes its Satellite P205-S6347 will help boost sales of HD DVD disks, which have been outpaced by Blu-ray technology.

Selling Empty Boxes
Patrick Brethour of the Globe&Mail reports on a scam artist selling "$2000 notebook computers" for a couple of hundred dollars: A routine parking

Toshiba Details its First AMD Laptops in 7 Years (PC World)
PC World - Toshiba Corp. has disclosed details of a new range of laptop computers based on processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.-- the first AMD-based machines the company has sold in about seven years.

Dell gets a splash of color (AP)
AP - Flamingo pink laptops, anyone?