by Mark Geenen | Aug 18, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Even though the early reviews of Microsoft’s new OS, Windows 10, have been positive, the PC market outlook has been downgraded, and the new figure shows the market contracting over double digits in 2015. PC companies are cautiously optimistic about Windows 10, and...
by Jason Lervold | Aug 3, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
A colleague of mine brought up a great argument for why 500 GB Hard Disk Drives can remain the storage device of choice for most college students. In essence, it’s not the student’s choice, but rather the parent’s choice. Let’s think this through for a moment…. As...
by John Chen | Jul 21, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
By now, it is no surprise that the HDD market has suffered at the hands of very weak demand for PCs. Compounding the lack of consumer PC purchasing is a major transition in Windows OS, with Windows 10 releasing on July 29. No OEM in its right mind wants to blow out...
by Jason Lervold | Jul 8, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
I tried to think back in the recent past to see when the storage industry made an immediate shift to a new interface or form factor, along with the reasons behind it. I was able to come up with one, very definite example – Parallel ATA (PATA) to Serial ATA (SATA) in...
by Mark Geenen | Jun 22, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Many of the facets of Chromebook are similar to netbooks such as low price, slower CPU, and small storage capacity, but certain differentiating aspects make Chromebooks potentially more legitimate notebook substitutes compared to the netbooks of seven years ago. With...
