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Sharp To Quit Making Personal Computers

Posted by timothy on from the used-to-have-the-coolest-laptops dept.

cylonlover writes "Sharp has reportedly decided to pull the plug on their PC operations — not entirely shocking given that the company has not released any PCs at all in the past year. The company will apparently 'focus on marketing its Galapagos tablet devices coming out in December, along with providing content such as e-books, music and video for these products.'"

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  1. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sharp made PCs?

    1. Re:Huh? by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually a lot of different Japanese companies make computers that are for the most part only released in Japan. Which is actually a far cry from the situation 20 years ago where lots of different Japanese PC manufacturers exported their stuff overseas.

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  2. Dont trust their tablets either by fredrickleo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently they're going to focus on a new line of tablet PCs.

    I'm still very unhappy with the amount of software support and updates we got for the Zaurus SL-6000 (zero support and updates) which was a very expensive piece of kit.

    Because of my experience with the Zaurus I no longer take chances with hardware and would rather go with the established leaders even if it's technically inferior.

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    Yay me! ^^