Acer says it will include the service on all of its consumer PCs starting in the second quarter of this year.

The current trend is towards software correlators running on consumer PCs or similar commodity hardware.

Apple says the new iMac is not only the most powerful consumer PC on the market, but also the quietest.

You generally have to pay for an OS when you buy a consumer PC.

While the desktop was made available as a consumer PC, it was more suited to a corporate environment, with the limited storage and graphics capabilities.

This is virgin territory for consumer PCs, and a perfect opportunity for Apple to make the Mac line stand out.

Is it really the case that you generally have to buy an OS when you buy a consumer PC?

In the PC category, the biggest impacts will be on emerging markets, netbooks, and entry-level consumer PCs.

In comparison, several vendors currently offer consumer PCs that are more than twice as powerful as the servers Google used in its tests.

Additional hardware coverage is directed at smartphones, tablet computers, cameras and other consumer electronic devices that interface with consumer PCs.