Laptops
What have tech watchers said about the Surface Laptop?
Rounding up the press reaction to Microsoft's big launch
Channel sales boom for mini PCs in Q1
Smaller units accounted for one in four desktops shipped by western European distributors, according to Context stats
Panasonic looks to shout about 'hidden secret' channel business
New boss of Toughbook channel talks up partner proposition
HP recalls 101,000 laptop batteries following overheating incident
Major recall after faulty battery melted, charred and caused $1,000 of damage
Apple and Acer hit hardest by fifth consecutive year of PC market decline
Five of the world's top six manufacturers saw shipments decline last year, Gartner figures reveal
IT goods among hardest hit as western European consumer tech spending drops in Q3
GfK data shows market bellwether Germany declining faster than the rest of the region
Dearth of components set to eat into notebook shipments next year
Analysts predicts 4.5 per cent drop in units shipped
Laptop prices to rise as vendors are bitten by panel shortage, ODM boss predicts
Ray Chen of Compal reportedly believes consumers are facing a price increase
Market watchers give new MacBook Pro tepid reception
Suggestions that Microsoft is pinching rival's innovation crown
The five biggest IT product launch disasters ever
Reliving Samsung's recent nightmare and four other high-profile horror stories
Stock purge in Q4 helps ease Windows 8 inventory bloat
Windows 10 cleared for take off as resellers shift machines running its predecessor, claims Context
Reducing EMEA PC inventory 'has proven very challenging'
IDC data reveals massive declines in Q3
Europe could see six-month wait for Microsoft Surface Book - sources
Partners told vendor's laptop offering will not be available on this side of the Atlantic until 'between January and March', with channel strategy still unclear
Hybrid hype
CPI's content editor Sam Trendall urges caution for any channel firms betting the farm on the latest form factor
Hybrids forecast to swipe a quarter of mobile PC market by 2019
Gartner figures point to market growth, with businesses urged to invest
A bigger slice of the market
Toshiba tells us about a freshly baked offer in its quest to conquer the SMB space across Europe
German OEMs rush to sell Microsoft kit on Android
Microsoft ramps up the number of partners preloading Android kit with its wares, with many coming from EMEA
Chromebooks not taking off in B2B space
Global shipments growing but sales to commercial enterprises 'remain low'
'Once in decade' - Intel cites 2015 as a landmark year for the PC market
Senior executive points to importance of Skylake chip at partner event in Abu Dhabi
Toshiba - resellers can still make money selling PCs
Vendor's sales boss for northern Europe takes part in our Q&A series
Bargain Windows with Bing machines hitting reseller revenue - analyst
The tablet market also suffers its first-ever decline - but analysts cannot agree on how big it was
Rossi vacates Acer EMEA president chair after less than six months
Emmanuel Fromont announced as vendor's third regional boss in less than six months
UPDATED: HP will split into two businesses:
PC/printer and enterprise hardware/services businesses to be created
PC sales up 19.1 per cent in Western Europe
Volumes see pleasing growth rates partly due to XP migration
