VR backpack workstation with Nvidia Quadro

HP has decided to overhaul its Omen X compact desktop and offer it to the professional market by creating the Z VR Backpack G1 Workstation system, an Nvidia Quadro-based system that will bring cableless VR system to professionals.

More HP sauce 

The maker of over-priced printer ink, HP, has just decided that it invented reminder messages and has scored itself a patent from the daft US Patent Office.

HP, Asus and Lenovo join the arms race 

HP, Asus and Lenovo will be the first hardware makers to churn out ARM-based Windows 10 PCs.

A zero-energy hybrid between digital displays and e-ink

HP Labs announced a new hybrid printing technology that is set to change the way that employee IDs, visitor passes, gate passes and other temporary passes are distributed to the general public.

Not as bad as expected

Beancounters at Digitimes Research have added up some numbers and divided by their shoesize and reacted the conclusion that worldwide notebook shipments (not including 2-in-1 devices) dropped only 1.2 percent.

Replacing Lenovo

The maker of expensive printer ink, HP, is expected to replace Lenovo as the top notebook vendor worldwide in 2017.

Force themselves into retirement after a couple of years

Chipzilla’s Atom C2000 processor family is shipping with a fault which is going to cost Intel a boatload of cash to fix.

Less than 1 percent of notebooks affected

Hewlett Packard told the press that it will recall nearly 101,000 notebook batteries from products sold between March 2013 and October 2016, because the units could overheat and pose serious fire and burn hazards.

Top three saw 10 per cent boost

Beancounters at Digitimes Research have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and come up with some good news for notebook manufacturers.

Better safe than sorry

HP has decided to shut down aging FTP and Telnet protocols on some of its elderly printers.