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June 23, 2009

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:08 AM/EST

Run Over Your Laptop with a Truck. We Know You Want To.

You've probably wanted to do this yourself to a laptop computer at some point or another--run over it with a truck. In this case it was a DOW (Doppler on Wheels), a storm-tracking truck. And the laptop in question? The...

May 29, 2008

Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:59 AM/EST

The New Math at Dell

Dell was found guilty this week of pulling a bait and switch on customers by offering 0 percent financing and then actually charging much higher rates. Apparently, the fact that the company had a lawsuit pending on that very issue was not enough to get it to stop doing that.

April 24, 2008

Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:10 PM/EST

Dell to Launch Partner Blog

Want to tell Dell what you really think? The comments section is open now.

April 14, 2008

Monday, April 14, 2008 1:34 PM/EST

Get hammered with Dell, or actually get your laptop repaired? You decide.

Need a story to tell your customers about why it's better to buy through you, a reliable and long-trusted VAR, than directly from Dell? Look no further.

January 24, 2008

Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:51 PM/EST

Hardware, Schmardware

Hardware is dead, so why are vendors still fighting over the scraps?

January 14, 2008

Monday, January 14, 2008 12:45 PM/EST

Printing Problems

Selling printers is tough, and it's even tougher when vendors start shouting about how good their direct sales are.

January 4, 2008

Friday, January 04, 2008 1:59 PM/EST

Lenovo's Consumer Play is Work for Channel

Lenovo's move to introduce a consumer line of PCs may be winning the company some attention at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. It positions Lenovo, which bought out IBM's PC division a few years ago, to go head-to-head with...

November 21, 2007

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 10:12 AM/EST

AMD's Spider Bites the Channel First

AMD's newest and best chips usually ship first with well-known OEMs such as Hewlett-Packard. But not so with the x86 processor maker's new Spider platform, designed for the enthusiast market. AMD is leading with the channel--or whitebox makers--with this quad-core...

October 31, 2007

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 5:33 AM/EST

A new kind of data center power testing facility

I let you in on one of my big passions - I have a certain fondness for visiting data centers. Maybe it is the feeling of power coursing through all those racks of servers, or getting access into the inner...

March 28, 2007

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:54 PM/EST

The PC Is Profitable Again

Thirty-second TV spots with Jay-Z boasting "The PC is personal again!" might say it louder, but for the past six months, John Snaider, vice president and general manager of Hewlett-Packard's Americas Business PCs, and the company's Personal Systems Group have been preaching to the manufacturer's 26,000 channel partners that "the PC is profitable again." Thin clients, workstations, PC blades, "green" projects and vertical solutions like Point of Sale have made the PC a comeback story for the PSG group, and HP wants VARs that gave up on PC sales or surrendered them to competitors and Dell to restart their PC practices.

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