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HP Chromebase All-in-One

HP’s Chromebase. (Source: HP)   HP introduced their Chromebase 21.5-inch All-in-One Desktop and claims it is the world’s first Chromebase All-in-One with a rotating display The screen can tilt 20 degrees upwards and easily rotate 90 degrees from landscape to portrait mode. The HP Chromebase AiO also has a split-screen feature that allows for viewing multiple pages simultaneously. The device … Read more

HP acquires Teradici; promises expanded virtualization capabilities

Founded in a garage in Palo Alto, HP has fixed up the place since then. (Source: HP)   HP has spent the last several years quizzing its customers, analysts, and investors about the future of workstations and the future of work. Looks like they’ve gotten their answer. HP has announced plans to acquire Teradici Corporation.  Teradici Corporation based in British … Read more

HP revisits the AiO for hybrid work environments

HP’s new AiO is skinny and makes you look good. (Source: HP)   The spring refresh continues as PC companies show new designs with an awareness of the changing boundaries between work and life and IT. The most recent addition to the lineup is HP’s new EliteOne 800 All-in-One (AiO). This one is designed for home or office, but its … Read more

HP Zs for a new world

Workstations have proved their mettle during the pandemic—sometimes by their absence. People, who have had to relinquish their powerful computers to work on home computers, have found out how much the workstation’s power, processing, and fast access to data means to them. Others have found it’s well worth the inconvenience to take the office machine home if that’s part of … Read more

Nvidia embodies bigLITTLE

If Nvidia is successful in acquiring Arm (and maybe even if they aren’t), Nvidia has some mighty big and small plans for, with, and of Arm. When Nvidia announced it intended to acquire Arm (see TechWatch: https://www.jonpeddie.com/editorials/what-if-what-if), they said in their ambitions (for Arm) in the UK that they would build a supercomputer AI research center in Cambridge. That was … Read more

The state of the PC industry

The PC industry has been on a rollercoaster ride for the past decade or longer: up, down, up, down, up. In 2010, when Paul Otellini was Intel’s CEO, he forecasted robust growth for the PC (and Intel) over the next ten years, and spoke about the next billion units. At the time, the installed base of PCs was a billion … Read more

Google gives up on VR

So long Daydream, you didn’t even flash in your own pan. (Source: Google)   Google came up with a great name and a great industrial design for the Daydream, its entry into VR for the Android world, but the company seemed to forget about it after the initial splash. Do you remember when there used to be long lines to … Read more

Leia

Leia, a 2014 start-up in Menlo Park, CA, spun out of HP Labs, has developed a diffractive light field backlighting (DLB) display. Developed from work done at HP Labs in the field of nano design and manufacturing, the company’s proprietary diffractive light field display uses finely tuned nanostructures to project a dense light field from a transparent, edge-lit substrate. This … Read more

HP introduces Spring lineup with features for creatives

In honor of the NAB that never was, HP is introducing new products that are designed for creators, which in HP’s view include designers as well as artists. HP distinguishes itself with its full pipeline consisting of 3D printing capability, Hololens devices, and full-color displays. The company is rolling out new mobile devices designed for creatives on the move, even … Read more

HP at CES

The PC business is pretty standardized these days. People know they want a computer, a display, a mouse, a tablet. Many of those people know they’d rather have a major brand for the reassurance of support and security. So, the struggle for the PC companies is to figure out some way to stand out and thrive selling similar stuff to … Read more