 Through joint development, production and material procurement synergies to be created, the two companies will help to narrow the gap to market leader HP. The new joint venture 51% owned by Lenovo and 49% by NEC. The end products will continue to be sold under the existing brand name.
Could the gap to HP in 2011 be reduced?
Please help to investigate and add the missing information.
In October 2011, the company was convicted of illegal price-fixing agreements in the period from 1999 to 2004 by the EU, together with Asahi Glass, Schott AG and Samsung Corning Precision Materials, to a total amount of 128.7 million euros. The cartel had the prices of CRT glass for televisions and computer screens discussed. Samsung Corning Precision Materials remained of a sentence spared as the company had reported the violations to the Commission.
As expected for a post-Obon week, Week 34 was a rather uneventful week with not a single entry in the Top 10 and significant drops for virtually all games. And yet, the usual evergreen titles on Nintendo Switch are no exception.
There’s only one Nintendo Switch game that saw an increase in sales this week: Ring Fit Adventure with 30 689 units sold (+17%), which brings total sales to 1 366 433 units. Naturally, that increase is due to Nintendo shipping more copies to retailers, as demand is still through the roof and well above what Nintendo are able to ship.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons saw the biggest drop of all evergreen titles, due to Nintendo shipping a lot less Nintendo Switch consoles this week. As explained before, the Animal Crossing: New Horizons bundle accounts for a significant chunk of sales for the game, so it’s no surprise that they would drop as much as they did.
06./06. [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 (Konami) – 9.522 / 200.447 (-42%). It’s now sold over 200 000 units on Nintendo Switch alone, and not counting digital sales!
As expected, the post-Obon week for the Nintendo Switch was quite brutal (over 50% drop), but sales remain at an unsually high level with 70 129 units sold (down from 148 699 units last week). Sales are expected to bounce back up during Week 35, but it’s not clear whether they will go back in 6 digits territory again.
One of thing we do know is that demand continues to be extremely strong, and yes, lotteries are still the only way to buy the console at most retailers not called Amazon.
In comparison, the Nintendo Switch sold only 30 072 units during the same week last year. The Animal Crossing: New Horizons wave is still going strong, with the gap between 2020 and 2019 widening week after week (3 533 210 units vs. 1 862 831 units). Unfortunately, the console didn’t quite manage to beat the 2018 total as of this week (5 534 165 units), but it was certainly a close one!
Since launch, the Nintendo Switch has already sold 14 916 641 units, and the 15 million units milestone may well be reached as early as Week 34. The Nintendo Switch Lite has sold 2 528 241 units since launch, and the OG model 12 388 400 units.
Funnily enough, the Nintendo 3DS has managed to outsell the PlayStation 4 this week, despite its sales being as anemic as usual (1 171 units, only two units less than during Week 33). It’s definitely not something anyone could have seen coming, though of course, it’s due to shortages impacting the PS4 (as Sony is gearing up for next-gen).
The handheld sold 1 171 units this week, as opposed to 2 227 units during the same week last year. This brings YTD sales to 40 973 units (vs. 156 228 units last year as of Week 34), and LTD sales to 24 537 120 units.
The submitted sample, style 5461, consists of two garments: a bolero jacket and a top. The bolero jacket reaches from the neck to just below the bust and features a round neck with one button fastener, long hemmed sleeves, and a hemmed bottom which is curved in front and straight in back. The top, which is straight across in front ad back, extends from just above the bust to the waist and is held on the body by two narrow straps.
The applicable subheading for the bolero jacket will be 6104.33.2000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for womens or girls suit-type jackets and blazers: of synthetic fibers: other:. The rate of duty will be 29.1% ad valorem.
The applicable subheading for the top will be 6114.30.1020, HTS, which provides for other garments, knitted or crocheted: of man-made fibers: tops: womens or girls. The rate of duty will be 29.1% ad valorem.
The bolero jacket falls within textile category designation 635. The top falls within textile category designation 639. As a product of Hong Kong, this merchandise is subject to a visa requirement and quota restraints based upon international textile trade agreements.
The worlds of bird art as illustration and bird art as portrait have finally come together again in the release of the National Geographic Illustrated Birds of North America, Folio Edition. This book is essentially a large-format hard-cover version of the latest 5th edition of the popular National Geographic field guide. National Geographic bills it as "both hard-working reference and sumptuous art book" that "schowcases the more than 4,000 original, full-color, meticulously rendered bird paintings--by 20 contemporary bird artists--in striking detail and scientific accuracy."
So, is this really a "magnificent and highly collectible" bird art book, or just an attempt to sell us a Biggest Field Guide Ever version of the book we already have in our backpacks or on the seat of our car?
For me, I actually agree with the marketing description of this book and enjoy it as both reference and art book. First most intermediate or more advanced birders, who don't carry field guides in the field anyway, so-called field guides are really mostly desk references anyway. So the size of this book doesn't detract from its use in that way. In addition, after buying multiple copies of previous editions of the National Geographic guide, I was slow to consider even picking up the latest 5th edition. Sure there were some nice changes, but if you have a couple previous editions of this book first published in 1983, there's little incentive to go out and add the latest edition to the line up on your field guide shelf. So while I passed on the original 5th edition NGS guide, when this version came along it offered something new.
That something new is a whole new appreciation for the heft of this book. We've been spoiled over the years in seeing thousands upon thousands of bird field guide illustrations and hundreds of thousands of bird photographs. Increasing the size of this book helps us appreciate just what a monumental book it really is and has been since the 1980s. Think about it--over 4,000 original bird paintings. We used to just carry that around in our large coat pocket and not think much more about the paintings except for their use-value in helping us identify birds. While we would never use original Audubon prints for dinner table placemats, we've been undervaluing the artwork of the NGS guide by treating it as mere illustrations for helping us answer our mundane bird identification questions.
But no more. When you hold the National Geographic Illustrated Birds of North America, Folio Edition in your lap, the sheer weight of the book shatters that mindset. As you leaf through the pages of this volume, you start to see the illustrations for what they are--amazing and "meticulously rendered bird paintings...in striking detail and scientific accuracy."
I'll admit that when I first heard of this project, I had my doubts. While the text and illustrations of the original NGS field guide sent shockwaves through birding communities and immediately replaced the Peterson and Golden Guides as the guide of choice when it came out in the 80s, I thought that some of the illustrations had become a bit stale in the intervening years. For example I had never really warmed to Donald Malick's Great Horned Owl plate (p.257) and H. Douglas Pratt's jay plate (p.321) had grown a bit stale after more than 25 years of exposure.
Happily, even these plates take on new life in the larger format. As field guide illustrations, they may have lacked a certain spark, but as bird portraits, they unquestionably rank with the works of previous grand masters. They may never be my favorites, but seeing them closer to how they were originally painted, rather than scrunched into a more compact format, seems to release them from bondage and bring them alive again.
So the art work is wonderful, and it is a joy to peruse the plates as art rather than mere illustration.
That said, here's what I'd like to see in a second edition of this book:
1) There's a lot more room here, so perhaps we could expand the text of the species accounts a bit? Give us a little extra something that wouldn't fit in the original smaller format guide?
2) Since this version is billed as an art book as much as a field guide, how about printing the signatures of the artists on each plate so we can appreciate them without having to search out the credits in the back of the book