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It’s no secret the market for traditional laptop computers is under siege from tablets, with their lighter weight, near-instant-on performance and extended battery life.

Now Intel Corp., whose chips power most personal computers, is working with computer makers to fight back, touting an if- you-can’t-beat-’em, join-’em concept called the Ultrabook. The design borrows liberally from the tablet playbook in an effort to keep PCs relevant in an increasingly post-PC world, with a goal of capturing 40 percent of the consumer laptop market by the end of 2012.

              Apple’s latest MacBook Pro refresh was a meat-and-potatoes upgrade: faster processors, better graphics, more storage, no fancy stuff. The new computers are born in a time Apple itself calls the “post-PC” era—a time when the main machine people live on could more often be a tablet, not a notebook. How long will it be before the iPad and its ilk cannibalize personal computers?

          How many times have you heard the word ‘intuitive’ when a company is talking about its newest product?  How intuitive is it really once you’ve bought it?  There’s usually a learning curve ranging from OK to HUH??!!!

The HP Veer is a product that correctly calls itself ’intuitive.’  This is one of the simplest full-featured phones I’ve ever tried.

          HP today announced that it has appointed Stephen DiFranco to serve as senior vice president and general manager for the Americas region of its Personal Systems Group (PSG), reporting to Todd Bradley, executive vice president of PSG.

          Customers can’t afford another data plan, prefer Wi-Fi tablets instead

According to Computer World’s Matt Hamblen, sales of 3G cellular-equipped tablets have largely been a bust because consumers don’t want to pay wireless carriers for another data plan on top of their data plans for smartphones, an IDG analyst said on Friday.