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Lenovo hopes to score in Windows 7 market
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Vendors

2009-10-21 19:17:02
Lenovo's hoping to cash in on interest in Windows 7 with a range of desktops and notebooks - including a pair of new ThinkPads - that ship with the new operating system.


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Windows 7 to be the end of the line?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Software

2009-10-21 00:20:06
An academic has predicted that Windows 7 - which ships later this week - may be Microsoft's desktop OS swan song.


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Windows 7 to be the end of the line?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Software

2009-10-20 21:25:11
An academic has predicted that Windows 7 - which ships later this week - may be Microsoft's desktop OS swan song.


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HP goes berserk: new desktops, notebooks and touch systems
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2009-10-13 00:32:23
HP has released a raft of systems aimed at the commercial and consumer markets, including touchscreen models. Also new is the company's first 42in HD digital signage touch display.


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Unisys gets $52.7 million government contract extensions
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Outsourcing

2009-10-12 22:51:33
Unisys Australia has been awarded two contract extensions valued at around $52.7 million by the Federal Government’s Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) to continue to deliver outsourced desktop services and biometric and identity management solutions. 


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WD serves up 2 terabytes of Caviar
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Storage

2009-09-07 01:19:25
Western Digital has begun shipping its 2 TB Caviar Black drives. Enterprise versions are being qualified by OEM customers.


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Netbooks getting thinner and faster, HD desktops going mainstream: Intel
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2009-06-02 02:28:28
The forthcoming 'Pine Trail' Atom chips will deliver smaller, thinner, lighter netbooks with longer battery life, Intel has promised. And desktop PC chipset changes will take HD video into the mainstream.


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Desktop Linux: it ain't a better Windows
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-05-19 19:33:09
One debate which the FOSS community will never give up on is the one about GNU/Linux on the desktop. No matter that the two big companies which were once interested in putting GNU/Linux on the desktop have now officially given up.
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Desktop Virtualisation – Considerations for going virtual
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-04-14 23:40:19
Done your Server consolidation under virtualisation?  Perhaps it is time to consider those pesky desktops/laptops in your company.  This is an initial look at those desktop virtualisation considerations.


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Aussies! Grab a sub $200 Linux desktop - today only!
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery

Category: The Linux user and switcher blog

2009-03-25 08:32:16
Impulse-buy retailer Zazz.com.au has sold computers in the past, but today's deal is a special one to my heart. For less than $200 including freight you get a Dell Optiplex desktop computer with Ubuntu Linux loaded and guaranteed fully working. However, you only have today to go for it.


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IT organisations go Linux as economy dives says survey
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-03-16 19:33:51
There has been a surge in Linux acquisition as a result of the global recession, according to a new market survey. According to a new whitepaper, more than half of IT executives are planning to fast track Linux adoption in 2009.


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Why consumers will still buy Macs during the recession
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-03-03 19:31:47
As numerous analysts have pointed out, desktop computers are on the way out, yet here we are in the middle of a - dare I say it - depression and Apple has just released a new range of premium priced desktop Macs. Some people might say Apple are mad to bring out new desktops at this time, but they would be mad if they didn't.


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Mac Pro goes Nehalem
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2009-03-03 17:06:10
A revamped Mac Pro brings Intel's Nehalem Xeon chips to Apple's lineup for the first time. Apple claims this and other changes can double the performance of its high-end desktop.


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Australians cut wires to PCs and go mobile
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-03-03 15:19:35
A new report has confirmed that PC users in Australia are ditching their desktops and fixed line Internet connections while turning to notebooks and wireless technology. The report shows that the percentage of homes owning notebooks is fast approaching that of desktops and that broadband usage has reached saturation point.


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Android the real Linux desktop threat to Windows
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-03-01 02:25:14
Microsoft got things seriously wrong when it released Vista and the company knows it. In the past, the absolute market dominance of Windows on the desktop has allowed Redmond to get away with such mistakes. That may no longer be the case now that Google has entered the operating system market with its Linux-based Android platform.


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Linux virtual desktops sweeping Brazilian schools
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-17 22:49:03
The companies behind a 356,800 seat deployment in Brazil claim world records for the largest desktop virtualisation rollout, the largest desktop Linux rollout, and the lowest cost per seat.


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Eee Top – top in touch but top in price, too?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2009-01-28 02:14:44
The touch revolution arrived long ago but has been getting refined ever since, and while the iPhone has shown the way, the Eee Top aims to bring touch screens to the masses at a price that’s cheaper than HP’s touch screen computers but still expensive compared to netbooks. Given the Eee Top uses an Atom processor, can we expect similar pricing for touch capable netbooks, too?


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Citrix 'Project Independence' to isolate PC work and play
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-01-22 00:46:06
Citrix has come up with an interesting plan to separate the business and personal use of one PC. The implementation will include a new Xen-based hypervisor.


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Personalising the desktop wallpaper in Ubuntu
Written By: Hamish Taylor
Section: Apexing the Linux learning curve

Category: Linux for Learners

2009-01-05 19:53:00
In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring how to set the desktop background (also known as "wallpaper") on the popular Ubuntu distribution.


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Dell brings “smallest ever” commercial desktop to market
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-12-09 21:01:00
Are you or your employees stuck in “space-constrained” offices or cubicles? Then Dell’s new “OptiPlex 160” might be the answer to a bit of extra space on your desk, although if a few inches of extra space is the difference between sanity and insanity in the office, you might have other problems.


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