"Industry pundits tend to misguide you," continues Iwaki, "by mischaracterizing the
Wintel solution as 'open' and the Sun solution as 'proprietary.'" Methinks he has a point.
It appears the majority of the students have chosen
Wintel computers.
Lenovo claims that the IdeaPad Lynx K3011 is the first "
Wintel" premium productivity tablet with a detachable keyboard.
The delay, following remarks by Intel chief executive Paul Otellini, who told employees in Taiwan that Windows 8 needs improvement, underscores how the
Wintel alliance that has dominated the personal computer industry for three decades is struggling to respond to the threat of Apple's iPad.
Others factors include "the declining power of the
Wintel alliance, as well as Apple Inc.'s smartphone- and tablet-driven ascendency to chip purchasing leadership above traditional PC-oriented frontrunners like Hewlett-Packard," Leimbach said.
'It's highly symbolic, the
Wintel duopoly that was such a good partnership for so long is fraying at the edges a little bit,' said Todd Lowenstein, a portfolio manager at HighMark Capital Management.
The two companies have so dominated the PC industry over the past few decades that the term "
Wintel" (from Windows and Intel) is used to refer to PCs running Windows on a processor based on the Intel-developed x86 architecture.<p>"We work with Google on a variety of projects, including elements of this one.
It achieved a 15:1 consolidation of its 3,000
Wintel servers and saved approximately 2 megawatts of power and $2.4 million in annual energy costs.