Dan Neel - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Dan Neel

Article | 2/10/2001 Worldwide chip sales fall by 42 percent

Worldwide sales of semiconductors fell by nearly half over the course of the last year, according to a report released Monday by the Semiconductor Ind...

Article | 24/09/2001 IBM deploys new NetVista M-Series PCs

With little marketing pretense, IBM this week introduced three new PCs to its NetVista line of desktop computers. The new NetVista M-Series PCs quietl...

Article | 24/09/2001 Sun Microsystems' high-end Starcat server to shine

The high-end server market is expected to heat up significantly next Tuesday as officials for Sun Microsystems unveil the company's much-anticipated S...

Article | 3/09/2001 Celerons step up to the 1GHz mark

Ending a week of high-speed technology announcements from the world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp. on Friday took its value-priced Celeron processo...

Article | 30/08/2001 Intel sheds more light on McKinley

The view of Intel Corp.'s upcoming McKinley processor sharpened Wednesday as the chip maker offered up new details of its next generation 64-bit proce...

Article | 30/08/2001 Serial ATA 1.0 spec ready for business

The evolution of computing took another step Wednesday as the final 1.0 specification of Serial ATA was presented at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) i...

Article | 29/08/2001 Intel rolls out SDRAM chip set

Intel Corp.'s current effort to get Pentium 4 processors into progressively less expensive PCs should be aided within weeks by the arrival of Intel's ...

Article | 22/08/2001 Low PC margins endanger Dell's core business

Dell Computer Corp.'s own success in driving PC prices down to current lows could force the original build-to-order computer maker to look elsewhere f...

Article | 31/07/2001 Intel rolls out redesigned Pentium III-M

For the first time since the introduction of the Pentium III chip family in late 1999, Intel Corp. has moved to a smaller, more efficient processor ar...

Article | 30/07/2001 Pentium 4 prices to fall even more with SDRAM chipset

Intel's current effort to get Pentium 4 processors into progressively less expensive PCs should be aided in August by the arrival of Intel's 845 chips...

Article | 28/06/2001 TECHXNY - Compaq previews new Evo laptop

Combining an upcoming low-power Intel chip with its newly re-designed Evo line of computers, Compaq on Wednesday announced plans to begin shipping an ...

Article | 27/06/2001 TECHXNY - Handheld devices clamour for attention

Expanding the capabilities of handheld computers and enriching the handheld computer experience took front stage for vendors like Palm, Handspring, an...

Article | 23/04/2001 AMD to fill Intel price gap with dual-processor Athlon

Intent on offering users of dual-processor workstations and entry-level servers a less expensive alternative to Intel's new Foster chip, Advanced Micr...

Article | 19/04/2001 Intel quarterly profits slashed

In the wake of recent lowered earnings reports from prominent high tech companies, microprocessor giant Intel on Tuesday announced that its first-quar...

Article | 11/04/2001 Microsoft rolls out beta 1 of Talisker

Microsoft on Tuesday released to developers Beta 1 of the next version of its Windows CE operating system, code-named Talisker.