Dell said its quarterly profit rose 24percentto to $621 million, or 24 cents a share, as sales of its desktop and notebook PC's and computer servers increased 27percentt.
HP says it will also be loading its consumer personal computers and notebook PCs with Apple's iTune's digital music jukebox and including desktop icons to direct users to it.
COMPAQ COMPUTER CORP., Houston, the second-largest PC maker, said it had won a three-year $100 million contract to provide desktop and notebook PC's, server computers, hand-held organizers and related services to 28,000 employees of Kimberly-Clark Corp., of Dallas.
Though it's not quite accurate to call it ubiquitous yet, the technology is popular enough that computer manufacturers are building wireless capability into their notebook PCs with ever-increasing regularity.
A good deal of the design attributes of many notebook PCs from vendors like IBM, Gateway and Dell, as well as Intel 's Centrino chip platform, aim to maximize the hours of use out of a notebook computer while on a long flight.
The computer is a big design win for U.S.-based chipmaker Transmeta, which has traditionally landed its chip designs in small notebook PCs and other portable devices like Web tablets and so-called Internet appliances of every shape and size.
PCs, especially notebook PCs, are becoming another symbol of a person's status or taste.
— Computers: Apple MacBook notebook PC. — Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6. — Video Games: Super Mario Galaxy.
— Computers: Apple MacBook Pro notebook PC. — Software: Apple Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard.
But this year's notebook PC is the state college of computers: It may not be the most prestigious, but it will certainly get the job done.
