China buys China—is the war over?
China owns considerable market share in world markets and these days, the country is capturing even more mind share, but what is China’s ultimate goal? It’s possible China wants most of all to own its own market.
HP’s Reverb VR headset
The best yet
CES 2019, a gap year
The gadget show of the year showcased new tech in all categories: from health care to TVs, cars, and robots. The darlings of the past, like 3D printing and VR, didn’t get quite the same play but cars and their entertainment systems are always there as are new TVs and PCs. The CES Innovation awards are a little like third-grade … Read more
HP’s Sprout blossom: the Z3D camera
In 2018, the HP Sprout all-in-one creative content workstation got a significant upgrade as HP took in all the response it received to the original product and made significant changes to relaunch the next version, the Sprout Pro G2. Like the original Sprout, the Pro G2 includes a 3D camera to enable an integrated scanning workflow and adds a 20-point … Read more
HP’s Spring line up
HP isn’t a flashy company, but boy do they have style. Known and respected for their engineering, their products have been attractive, but not usually head-turning. That was then, this is now. You might have gotten a hint that the company was up to a major refresh when they recently introduced their stylized logo for their premium products. The logo … Read more
HP establishes a new category—detachable workstations
Expanded line reaches semi-professionals, high-end designers, engineers, and content creators
Referrals: New article evaluates external graphics for Macs
The idea of using external graphics as a means of beefing up a laptop or desktop computer is not new, but it has been revitalized by the availability of Thunderbolt on modern machines. In 2008 ATI developed an external graphics box that connected to a laptop via what ATI called eXternal Graphics Port (XGP). Fujitsu and MSI built lap tops … Read more
HP establishes a new category—detachable workstations
Expanded line reaches semi-professionals, high-end designers, engineers, and content creators When HP announced the new ZBook x2 series back in October 2017 they were not just introducing a new workstation but a new category—the detachable workstation. The ZBook x2 is a culmination of hundreds of hours of research by HP. HP talked to graphic designers, artists, photographers and Creative Cloud Users and … Read more
JPR reports another quarterly workstation record in Q4’17
Units up 3.6% from last quarter, 5.4% from last year
Selling shovels
Legend has it the people making the most money during the California Gold Rush were the people selling equipment to the miners. The same holds true today for the companies selling the tools for crypto-currency. Certainly it’s a safer business.
HP Challenges the status quo in workstations
HP unveils its take on a tabletmode mobile workstation Describing an industry as mature tends to connote visions of conservative businesses that follow established design formulas and serve equally established markets, with adequate but uninspired products. Though it would qualify as mature by virtually any sensible measure, the workstation market exhibits none of those traits that adjective might suggest. And … Read more