Stories about: Fry's Electronics

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    Laptops to sell for under $200 on Black Friday 19/11/2011 04:23:21

    Heavily discounted PCs and tablets will be sold by top retailers on Black Friday, which marks one of the most active shopping days in the U.S. Walmart and Best Buy will offer fully equipped laptops for under US$200, continuing a promotional price battle they have engaged in for years. The sub-$200 laptops have slow processors and may lack key components, but could be effective desktop replacements for basic tasks like office productivity applications, Web surfing and video.
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    Lenovo heats up price war with $199 IdeaPad tablet 02/09/2011 02:07:34

    Lenovo announced a new US$199 IdeaPad tablet with a 7-inch screen and Google's Android OS in response to the surge in demand for inexpensive tablets, the company said on Thursday.
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    Windows 7 upgrade FAQ 27/06/2009 03:11:00

    Microsoft is readying its next major release of the Windows operating system. After months of demos, early testing, beta releases, and finally announced launch plans, here's what you can expect in an upgrade.
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    Environmental impact minimal from Dell battery recall 21/08/2006 10:08:30

    Many of the 4.1 million laptop batteries recalled by Dell will wind up in landfills around the world, but experts agree the environmental impact will be minimal.
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    HD-DVD players out, but hard to find 20/04/2006 10:28:08

    After several false starts, Toshiba has officially fired the first salvo in the race for the high-definition capable successor to DVD. Today marked the official launch of HD-DVD, the format backed by Toshiba. (The first Blu-ray Disc players, for the format backed by Sony and a slew of consumer electronics companies and studios, are due to ship in June.) Toshiba's HD-DVD players, the US$500 HD-A1 and $800 HD-AX1, officially went on sale today; so too did three movie titles from Warner Home Video.
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    Toshiba takes HD DVD on the road 04/03/2006 10:41:32

    On Thursday, I had a chance to view a working sample of Toshiba's high-end HD DVD player, the HD-XA1 (announced at CES in January). Last week, Toshiba kicked off a 40-city road show, during which the company is visiting more than 130 retail stores to showcase HD DVD for consumers. The event I attended was at Fry's Electronics, and the content shown certainly looked appealing on the 72-inch DLP Toshiba screen used in the demonstration.
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    US court grants AMD document retention request 05/07/2005 08:05:24

    The US District Court for the District of Delaware has granted a request by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) that documents be preserved for use as evidence as the company pursues its antitrust litigation against Intel, AMD said Monday.
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    New Pavilions show increasing HP support for AMD chips 02/04/2004 12:10:28

    HP has quietly begun selling a new series of Pavilion PCs, revealing a growing interest in using Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD's) processors in its desktop systems.
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    Microsoft, Lindows trial delayed; more evidence sought 04/03/2003 08:28:19

    A federal court has ordered Microsoft to produce more than 300 boxes of evidence to support its claims in a trademark suit against software startup Lindows.com, pushing back the jury trial in the case from April until December.
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    Lindows offers educators flat-rate deal 16/01/2003 11:26:08

    Software provider Lindows.com Inc. is offering US educators a new flat-fee licensing program, in a move that pokes at rivals' efforts to seize the valuable education market, where companies have traditionally looked to recruit lifetime users of their products.
 
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