Oh the times, they are a-changing. That perennial business favorite, the ThinkPad, which has long sported a familiar look, is finally going widescreen. While everyone from Apple to HP now offers widescreen laptops, competition from the likes of Dell has forced Lenovo to acknowledge that widescreen displays are just as desirable for business users. The new widescreen ThinkPad, which …

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According to a recent report from research firm IDC, the market for high-performance computing (HPC) products, commonly referred to as “supercomputers,” is growing at a rate of nine percent annually. Based on this growth, the firm estimates that the HPC market, which is currently worth more than $10 billion worldwide, could hit $14.3 billion by 2010–representing what very well could be the fastest growing market in IT. The largest player is currently HP (also the reigning server champ), …

Let the age of quad-core computing begin! Today, two new products from Intel will hit the street (or perhaps more accurately, the gaming rig and the server room): the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (Kentsfield) and the Xeon 5300 series (Cloverton). As we noted before, …

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fastest of them all? Actually, you know what, mirror? You’re not quite as accurate or as objective as you used to be. I mean sure, if I’m asking about Snow White or something you’re still the resource. But when it comes to virtualization, I’m not quite sure that you’re as on top of the game. So don’t take this too hard, but I think I’ve found someone else who I …

You should know the drill by now: Intel announces a new line of chips and one by one the manufacturers come out of the woodwork to announce new products that will utilize the chips. Earlier this week, we heard from Dell and now IBM is announcing servers based on Intel’s quad-core parts. Based on Intel’s Xeon 5300, a.k.a. “Clovertown,” the five new servers (all of which boast two sockets) will …

Dell announced a new storage device yesterday, the PowerVault RD1000, a rugged device that weighs about the same as a mobile phone. The device is designed to provide users with the speed of a hard drive and the portability of a backup tape. Ranging in size from 40GB to 120GB, the storage device aims to simplify the backup process, while sporting transfer and data access times similar to …

Last week, Dell released the details on their first AMD-based laptop, the Inspiron 1501 series. Yesterday, Dell announced yet another portable with an AMD chip inside and this time around, it’s aimed at enterprise customers. The Latitude 131L notebook will ship with either the 64-bit Turion 64 X2 TL-50 dual-core processor or the single-core Sempron 3500+ processor: the two configurations …

AMD continues to eat away at Intel’s market-share and the next front for the ongoing microprocessor battle could be China. Much like American vendor Dell, Chinese PC manufacturers Lenovo and the Founder Group have recently introduced products based on AMD chips. China currently represents …

Hate to say we told you so. A few weeks ago, we reported on a possible shortage of laptop batteries due to Sony’s massive recall. Well, it looks like that imminent shortage might be one step closer to becoming a reality: Compal, a Taiwanese contract laptop manufacturer for companies like Dell and HP, told investors last week that its fourth-quarter laptop shipments would be affected by a shortage of batteries. They lowered their …