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To some, Dell marches to the beat of Intel and Microsoft drums, dutifully following their research and development plans. But to hear Kevin Kettler tell it, the PC maker often takes its own lead.
Dell is expected to announce on Thursday in the US that it's expanding its partnership with the chipmaker to include new AMD-based servers, desktops and laptops.
Australia will see IBM attacking the server stronghold of Dell Computer and Hewlett-Packard later this month, using the aggressive pricing strategy that proved effective against Sun Microsystems.
We take one of Intel's new 34nm SSD drives for a spin and find it a worthy hard disk replacement, delivering massive speed jumps when loading software. But watch out for a penalty when writing data.
Last week I had the chance to hear HP give their world view on why you should join them and Intel on Itanium for your next generation of servers.
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Dell last week followed up a 12-month-old formal Oracle alliance with a love-in in New York with enterprise applications giant SAP. But what do all the smiles amount to beyond the teaming of two of the industry's biggest players?
Industrial Light and Magic has joined the empire, at least in terms of hardware.
If you're shopping at the premium end of the business desktop market, you'll be hard-pressed to do better than the Dell OptiPlex 960.
Dell's Latitude E4300 shares many of the exciting features of its larger siblings, but also sacrifices a lot in exchange for portability.
It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
Apple's move to adopt Intel chips will inevitably result in new victors and casualities in the desktop battlefield. Here's a sample.
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