IBM's PC unit piled up nearly $1 billion in cumulative losses in recent years, the company said in a filing detailing the planned sale of the business to China's Lenovo Group. The merger of IBM's PC ...

Price isn't everything, according to IBM executives. Instead, the keys to the kingdom are manageability, security and wireless communications, three elements IBM has included in its PC fall fashions.

IBM has reached a definitive agreement to sell its PC division to China-based computer vendor Lenovo Group in a deal that will effectively create a $12 billion PC company that will compete against ...

We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The titular character ...

In 1981, the first personal computer desktop was launched by IBM. However, the IBM PC had some limitations, such as the lack of a hard drive and too few expansion ports. 40 years ago today, on March 8 ...

It wasn’t long ago I was nostalgic about an old computer I saw back in the 1980s from HP. It was sort of an early attempt at a PC, although price-wise it was only in reach for professionals. HP wasn’t ...

All modern Intel and AMD PCs can trace their roots to a single system: the IBM Personal Computer. Originally released in August 1981, this computer became so popular and long-lived that competitors ...