Rob Enderle

I’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival of my Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop for months. The reason is this is the laptop where they finally got the carbon fiber cover to look like carbon fiber. I’m a car guy, and what is the good of carbon fiber if you paint over it? Lenovo did a […]

Microsoft Surface seemed to start much like the Microsoft Xbox did: as a response to a threat that never emerged. For the Xbox, its reason for being was a concern that Sony was going to turn the PlayStation into a powerful PC alternative, but Sony never did that. Surface came in response to the concern […]

This week I traveled to San Diego to meet with Qualcomm, and they had an impressive showing of their near term wireless advantages. One of the points the company made was that it has a substantial advantage because it makes both the radio and the modem for solutions, so the result is far more optimized […]

It has been a while since any PC OEM has created what I think is full-on halo product in the business space. A halo product is one that sets a high bar and is a showcase of what a company can do. These products tend to be technological powerhouses, and few of us mortals ever […]

Mobile workstations often have been an oxymoron. If you wanted real workstation performance, then you tended to end up with a monster of a desktop computer with a handle, and if you wanted mobility, you sacrificed a ton of performance. As components got smaller, the ability to decrease the size and weight of the thing […]

SAN FRANCISCO—I attended the Wi-Fi 6 Pro rollout from Qualcomm Aug. 27 here (I travel way too much). For those of us who do a lot of large events, have a lot of IoT devices at home or work, and suffer through poor Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi 6 promises to be a godsend. This is because Wi-Fi […]

Hewlett-Packard CEO Dion Weisler this week announced he was stepping down in favor of Enrique Lores (pictured), who had been running the venerable company’s printing and imaging business. We see so much executive bad behavior in the technology segment that it is nice for a change to see a company get leadership succession right. At […]

Last week, NVIDIA showcased a massive improvement in conversational artificial intelligence that has broad implications that are both good and bad. In effect, it has been able to drop the time it takes for a computer to understand and respond to the spoken word to milliseconds, which will allow AVR (automated voice response) solutions to […]

This week I was at the AMD Epyc processor launch in San Francisco. I’ve been at a lot of AMD events, and up until this one, the general message was that AMD was almost as good as Intel but not as expensive. This year it is very different; Intel has stumbled badly, and AMD is […]

The tablet space is a bit of a disaster of late since the iPad came on like gangbusters, scared the hell out of the PC market, and then pretty much died off into obscurity due to a lack of promotion and marketing by Apple. And where the iPad went, so did the rest of the […]