Hard drive prices drop as PC demand rises (InfoWorld)
Competition from flash memory and increased shipment of PCs and consumer electronics are driving down prices and fueling demand for hard disk drives, according to a survey released by iSuppli Wednesday. Average pricing of notebook hard drives tumbled, falling to $53 in the third quarter of 2007, from $86 in the same period during the previous year. Desktop hard drive prices fell to $51 ......more...Hard Drive Prices Hitting New Lows (Slashdot)
Lucas123 writes "The average price of notebook hard drives tumbled to $53 in the third quarter of 2007, from $86 in the same period during the previous year, according to a survey by a market research firm. The price drop can be accredited to competition among six vendors, enormous demand for PCs and consumer electronics as well as evolving flash memory drives. 'Lower-capacity notebook drives ......more... Hard drive prices drop as PC demand rises (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
Competition from flash memory and increased shipment of PCs and consumer electronics are driving down prices and fueling demand for hard disk drives, according to a survey released by iSuppli Wednesday....more... Panasonic Raises the Bar for Reliable Mobile Computing with New Suite of Business-Rugged Toughbook(R) Notebooks (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SECAUCUS, N.J.----Panasonic Computer Solutions Company, manufacturer of durable, reliable Panasonic® Toughbook® mobile computers, today introduced three new business-rugged notebook computers designed to meet the demands of mobile executives, walking workers and road warriors: the ultraportable W7, the tablet alternative T7, and the thin-and-light Y7....more... Zune 80 edging out iPod classic in reviews (MacNN)
Early reviews of Microsoft's imminent Zune 80 are giving it an overall higher score than Apple's iPod classic, according to their respective sources. Reviews from mainstream sites such as CNET, PC Magazine, PCWorld, and YahooTech all note that the hard disk-based version of the player appears to have addressed most of the complaints about the devi... ...more... Heavy PC demand leads to drop in prices (PC Advisor)
Hard drives are getting cheaper According to a survey released by iSuppli, competition from flash memory and increased shipment of PCs and consumer electronics are driving down prices and fueling demand for hard disk drives. ...more... The Eee PC 4G looks like a tiny laptop (Linux Devices)
What's the difference? Well, for one thing, instead of an 80GB hard drive, the Eee PC 4G has a 4GB SSD (solid state drive). In place of the 1.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 processor that the 1420 comes with, the Asus UMPC uses a 900MHz Intel "Dothan" Celeron M CPU....more... Asus's Eee Has It All Over Wal-Mart's Linux PC (InformationWeek)
And so now two new PCs running Linux out of the box have hit the shelves this week: Asus's $399 Eee Flash-storage mini-notebook and Everex's $198 TC2502 gPC , courtesy of Wal-Mart. Yes, they both run Linux, but the similarities end there -- and my money's on the Eee being the real success story of the two. ...more... Toshiba Broadens Personal Storage Line with 250GB Portable External HDD and Internal Upgrade Kits for Mobile PCs (Broadcast Newsroom)
IRVINE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), the industry pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), today added a 250GB(1) USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive - the highest capacity available in this form factor - to its lineup of personal storage devices and introduced a new line of internal notebook HDDs for mobile PCs to meet the growing demand for ......more... |