The early brunt of a hard-drive shortage resulting from widespread flooding in Thailand is falling on small PC makers, who are raising computer prices to stem losses. Hard-drive prices have skyrocketed since October, and shortages have forced independent computer makers to raise PC prices by up to ...
Enterprise users and consumers who have held off buying new PCs recently may come to regret their decision as a hard-drive shortage following floods in Thailand is expected to result in higher prices, according to Gartner. The market research company on Monday presented its survey of third-quarter ...
Tablets and smartphones are in, but don't count laptops out. Impressive new laptops planned for 2012 promise to be thinner, lighter, and faster, as well as to carry longer-lasting batteries. All the pieces are in place for a surge in laptop sales next year, from new Intel chips to the planned launc ...
Spinning off its PC unit would have been too costly for Hewlett-Packard, and that was one of the reasons why the company backed off from the plan it announced in August, an HP executive said on Friday. The cost of spinning off the unit would have amounted to US$1.5 billion in one-time costs and add ...
Open The New York Times Magazine on a Sunday and you’re bound to find a photograph that surprises you, educates you, makes you smile or causes you to stare. Many of the magazine’s photographs do all of these things. According to Times Magazine director of photography Kathy Ryan, staffers call tha ...
Camera manufacturers are a little bit scared these days: scared that the demise of the cheap-o point-and-shoot digital camera may be nigh. Yes, they said it would never happen, that people would never turn to the cruddy imager in their cell phone for all their snapshots, that compact point-and-shoo ...
And the winner for most controversial camera release of the year goes to: the Sigma SD1! Yes, if you’ve managed to stick your head above your Canon and Nikon digital SLRs and lenses for a few seconds this year, you may have heard about the SD1, a purported 46-megapixel DSLR that uses a three-layer ...
Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Larry Price has always been a small camera guy, even when he was lugging around big, heavy Nikon F2s and telephoto lenses in his early days as a photojournalist. “Having cut my teeth in newspapers and photojournalism, you have to be a chameleon,” he says. “You ...
Panasonic introduced the Lumix DMC-GX1 this morning, a 16-megapixel compact system camera that accepts interchangeable lenses. The GX1, which uses a Micro Four Thirds sensor, is the more advanced version of Panasonic's Lumix GF3, released earlier this year. The GX1 will sell for $950 with a 14-42mm ...
Dell's Inspiron One 2320 proves that you can get a lot for a decent price, including plenty of RAM, a pretty big hard drive, and a Blu-ray disc player. But you can't get everything: specifically, good looks and a quality touchscreen. The Inspiron One 2320 may cost less than $1300--on the low end of ...