Lenovo Overtakes HP to Become World's Largest PC Maker

The ailing PC market is currently seeing its condition get from bad to worse, as once flourishing computer manufacturers are folding and seeing the inevitable fate becoming a reality quickly.

HP, just one among them, has been seeing such times as well since quite a long time and now has seen itself being overtaken by Lenovo to slip down the rank of the world’s largest manufacturer.

The new statistics by Gartner tell us that the Chinese company shipped 12.6 million PCs in the last quarter, attaining a marketshare of 16.7 percent, compared to HP’s 12.3 million (16.4 percent). Dell and Acer filled the next spots by shipping 9.2 and 6.2 million PCs respectively, followed by ASUS which shipped 4.59 million units.

The PC market overall dropped 14 percent over the last year, shipping only 75.6 million units. This happened despite the fact that new Windows 8-running systems flooded the market.

The times certainly won’t be changing anytime soon for the PC vendors have customers flocked towards the tablet & portable gadget markets, keeping well clear of the formerly-ruling industry.

Still, some markets such as India showed some positive signs so instead, this time it might be the developing markets which will lead the way forward.

SanDisk Announces World's Fastest Memory Cards

SanDisk, the famous company which specializes in making storage devices has announced the world’s fastest SDXC cards yet. The new Extreme Micro-SDXC lineup will have reading speeds of up to 80 MB/s and 50 MB/s writing speeds.

That’s almost double the speeds of its predecessor, the Ultra Micro-SDXC lineup which had speeds of 30 MB/s. According to SanDisk, this will prove to be a big step towards fast data transfers, video streaming and in photography, where the high bitrate in things like 1080p video and burst-shooting is a bit of a drag on current cards.

The cards will be available in 16 and 64 GB versions. They will be available for $59.99 and $199 respectively which is considerably more expensive than the previous cards.

Availability details are unknown as of now but it should be available later this year.