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Chinese Giant Huawei Gets Serious About PC Business, Announces Plans For Global Expansion (reuters.com)
Speaking of new laptops, Chinese conglomerate Huawei plans a global expansion into computers, it said on Tuesday, posing a fresh challenge to established PC players in a market that has suffered two years of falling sales volumes and pressure on margins. From a report: At a news conference in Berlin, the Shenzhen-based company introduced its first line-up of three personal computer models, including a 15.6-inch screen notebook, a 2-in-1 tablet and notebook hybrid and an ultra slim, metallic 13-inch notebook. Initially, Huawei plans to target the premium-priced consumer market, competing with Lenovo, HP and Dell, which together sell more than 50 percent of all PCs. To a lesser extent, it will also go up against Apple's high-end, but shrinking, Mac computer business. Huawei's Matebook X is a fanless notebook with splash-proof screen and combined fingerprint sign-on and power button, priced between 1,399 and 1,699 euros ($1,570-$1,900). Its Matebook E 2-in-1 hybrid will run from 999 to 1,299 euros while the Matebook D with 15.6-inch display is priced at 799 to 999 euros, it said. Huawei said it aims to offer the new PCs in 12 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East in early June.
To a lesser extent, it will also go up against Apple's high-end, but shrinking, Mac computer business.
In terms of sales numbers, profits, and percentage of computer sales as a whole, it's getting larger.
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Is that like the Mercury Mistress?
A $2000 Chinese designed and built laptop? You might want to knock off a zero.
With backdoors gallore. No thanks
The previous post is about a patent war/partnership between Apple and Nokia.
Where is "Speaking of new laptops" supposed to fit in?
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First it was networking devices, then there was PC's. :D
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
Surprising-- from the gabble here on /. I would have thought the Mac was dying, but from the numbers, apparently not.
When my very old Samsung Galaxy S4 stopped working well with modern applications last year, I wanted to find a decent cellphone at a good price, without going to used. I took a chance on the Huawei Honor 8 for $400. It's been a great phone, timely with updates, and more than just another flavor of android running on a Chinese apple knockoff. It's a beautiful and well made device that has served me well. While their earlier software had some unusual features/bad designs, when they moved up to Android 7.0 they abandoned many of their failed ideas and kept improving their software.
This is not a cheap knockoff company, I'd expect them to easily rival Samsung and Apple in the US, if not pass them entirely for market share.
I hope she's okay. But at least she didn't have to listen to Justin Bieber music.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
When will the Russians plan a major global expansion into low cost PCs? For that matter, why not all sorts of other consumer electronics with embedded microprocessors? The Asians seem to have these markets already captured.
America is filled with cheap gadgets that phone home regularly to get updates.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
For $1500 I can get an awesome MacBook Pro
You can get a MacBook Pro, but an awesome one? In an alternate reality, perhaps.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Specs are nice, but is Huawei wiling to sell me a machine without Intel ME or its AMD counterpart?