Apple kills super fast MacBook Air SSD replacement
Asian technology company PhotoFast announced one of the first replacement SSDs for Apple's new, slimmer MacBook Airs shortly after the ultraportable notebooks were announced in October. However, Apple has asked the company to sto...
Toshiba introduces MacBook Air-type solid-state drives
One of the key elements that allowed Apple to make the new MacBook Air so slim was the elimination of traditional drive packaging for the solid-state drive (SSD). Rather than installing the flash memory in a case that could be installed in place of a...
Tiny MacBook Air SSDs from Toshiba now available to everyone
Toshiba has announced that the small outline form-factor SSD drives that debuted in Apple's latest MacBook Air models last month are now available as a retail product. Dubbed the Blade X-gale SSD series, the drives offer a potent...
Apple breaks 10% market share in US, Lenovo climbs globally
Apple continues on its steady march to the top of the technology heap, according to the latest PC market share reports from Gartner and IDC. Both firms have released preliminary sales estimates for the third...
Apple floats through the channel
The company stands out in a Morgan Stanley survey of the PC distribution channel It's not hard to spot the outlier in the chart above, taken from Morgan Stanley's quarterly survey, released Thursday, of the PC distribution channel -- the chain of intermediary companies whose job it is to carry finished product from the manufacturer...
Is the iPad driving down chip prices?
Samsung warns of a memory glut from weakening PC sales as consumers turn to tablets File this under unintended consequences. On Tuesday, according to Reuters, the world's largest manufacturer of memory chips warned that DRAM prices may fall in the next two quarters due to weakening demand for notebook and desktop computers. "If the PC...
Tough slogging for iPad knockoffs
Many will try, few will survive, says an Asian manufacturer working on several of them Two new tablet computers based on Google's (GOOG) Android operating system -- one from Samsung, the other by Toshiba -- were introduced at a trade show in Berlin this week, part of a wave of knockoff designs inspired by Apple's...
How the PC market grew 22.7%
The fastest year-to-year growth since iSuppli starting tracking computer shipments in 2003 The charts say it all. Three Asian suppliers -- Acer, Lenovo and ASUS (from a small base) -- led the field. Apple (AAPL) and Toshiba were close behind. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Dell (DELL) grew more slowly. In terms of market share, HP is...
Macs top Amazon's 'Most Gifted' list
Some computer wishes seem to have come true this holiday season
Last time we looked — on the eve of Cyber Monday — there was a conspicuous discrepancy in Amazon's (AMZN) computer department between the "Most Wished For" and "Most Gifted" machines. Customers may have been hoping for Apples (AAPL), but it looked like they were...
Rumor: Toshiba’s 64GB NAND flash chip for iPhone
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Rumors, iPhone, iPod touch
Last week, a brief tweet from Mobile Review's editor-in-chief, Eldar Murtazin sparked a rumor that Taiwan-based manufacturer Foxconn had received orders to build the next-generation iPhone. This week Toshiba has...Macs are Amazon's 'Most Wished For'
But some people may not be getting the computers they hoped for this holiday season
On the eve of Cyber Monday, Apple (AAPL) Macs held the top three spots on Amazon's (AMZN) "Most Wished For" laptop list, as well as the top four spots on the desktop computer wish list.
But wishes are not horses — or...
New Study Says Apple is Most Reliable, Not Asus