New and Noteworthy: IDC expects double digit PC shipment growth in '06; Apple shipping 100,000 iPod nanos per day; more

IDC expects double digit PC shipment growth in '06 Investor's Business Daily reports that increased demand for low-cost and portable computers will spur another year of double-digit growth in PC sales in 2006, according to the latest figures from technology research firm IDC. "IDC on Tuesday raised its PC-sales outlook for the fourth quarter, as well as for the years 2005 and 2006, saying that portable-personal-computer sales and a trend toward lower-cost PCs are behind the revised forecasts. IDC now expects worldwide fourth-quarter PC sales to rise 15% from a year ago, up from a previous forecast of 12.6%; that level of growth should boost 2005's total shipments to 207.7 million units, or 15.8% over the 2004 total of 179.4 million, it said. In September, IDC forecast 2005 sales growth of 15.3%." More.

Apple shipping 100,000 iPod nanos per day NFHQ reports that, in a best effort to meet demand for its top-selling iPod nano this holiday, Apple Computer is building and shipping 100,000 of the units per day. "In recent weeks Apple has made moves to increase its output of iPod nanos, which are the company's best selling items this holiday season. This included tapping former click-wheel supplier Synaptics to help supply components for click-wheels in the 2GB and 4GB nano." More.

Liquid cooling for Apple computing farms SearchDataCenter reports on the resurgence of liquid cooling in large-scale computing centers. "Shinpaugh runs the Terascale Computing Facility, which supplies Virgina Tech's research department the computing resources for molecular modeling and other high performance computing functions with thousands of Apple computers. Shinpaugh said the facility has one hot aisle and two cold aisles, 40 feet long. And when the system is running at full CPU load, it's over 95 degrees in the hot aisle." More.

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