In Davos, Picarro put one desktop-computer-size machine in the Swiss hamlet and another in the surrounding mountains.
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It not only offered such desktop-computer-like services as e-mail, but allowed a driver to use them without looking away from the road.
Modular computer manufacturers like Dell ultimately disrupted the vertically industry desktop-computer makers.
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Mobile advertising does not generate the same fees as desktop computer-based advertising.
The hiccups for Windows 8, however, have spotlighted the sometimes-awkward fit when software is grafted onto both a tablet computer used for watching movies and surfing the Web, and on a 27-inch desktop computer primarily for workplace functions.
And I was an interactive champion on the 2000 Fox Family game "Paranoia, " winning a top-of-the-line desktop computer with camera.
These products are intended for high performance notebooks (which often are the larger screen size 2.5-inch laptops that serve as semi-portable desktop computer).
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"With a stunning design, brilliant display and faster performance, we've made the world's leading all-in-one desktop computer better in every way, " said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.
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With more consumers looking for a full-size desktop computer without the hassle of wires and other connections, the new MAINGEAR Solo 21 gets a face lift and new technology under the hood.
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Notebook computers are the fastest-growing form factor in computer sales--versus desktop computers and servers--and are also AMD's weakest category.
Otherwise, Apple would have remained a high-priced pretty desktop computer that would have only reached a limited audience.
One could argue that the slow-growth consumer desktop computer market needs more pizzazz to create excitement, but shouldn't a company be advancing the product that's driving its growth most aggressively?
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Armed with more modern conveniences than many proper homes, the fort has a TV, wall-mounted speakers, desktop computer, air conditioning, shelving, and fluorescent lights.
At the heart of the personal genome machine is a silicon chip with 21 million transistors on it--the equivalent of a desktop computer circa 1995.
You can even use an old-fashioned wire to hook them up to less-portable devices a desktop computer or CD player, for example.
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OtherOS enabled the machine to run Linux, the alternative operating system to Microsoft Windows and Apple OS. Running Linux essentially turned the PS3 from a single-purpose gaming console into a desktop computer, which people could use to write programs.
He first met Mr Jobs at Cornell University when he was in charge of NeXT Inc, a closely watched start-up that in 1988 introduced a desktop computer targeted at the education market.
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In addition, the program comes pre-installed on all HP computers, and Easybits has just signed a similar deal with a rival computer maker that should see Magic Desktop being pre-installed on 10 million computers by the end of 2008, Mr Jolstad says.
In the meantime, Ice Computer reps have made the trip out to CES to demo the first functional xPad tablet, which is one of several platforms for the xPC, a smartphone-sized device that contains a complete computer and slides into desktop or home theater components (xDock), laptops (xTop) and the xPad we saw today.
Chrome OS, and its open-source sibling, Chromium OS, are Google's answer to the desktop computer.
If either Oracle or Sun had truly understood what it was they were trying to provide when they ventured out with the network computer concept, we might already be dealing with a whole different desktop experience -- and a new set of vendors to provide it.
NCs when it announced the Windows Terminal standard: this makes it easier to make cheap (and easy-to-maintain) desktop machines that simply display Windows software which is actually running on a central computer (much as mainframe terminals do).
Employees were invited via e-mail and through fliers to click on the Brightidea icon on their computer's desktop.
By making Windows virtually the only operating-system choice available to computer manufacturers, Microsoft was a principal benefactor of the boom in desktop computing.
Dell confirmed Thursday that the struggling PC giant--which rose to the top in the hardscrabble computer retail business by hawking its wares directly to its customers--will start selling desktop computers through 3, 000 Wal-Mart outlets starting June 10.
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The problem with CE is just that--it's still Windows, with nearly all the features (and complexities) of a miniaturized desktop computer.
Microsoft agreed to allow computer manufacturers and consumers to select a default desktop search program just as they can with third-party Web browsers and media players.
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