Plectrums By Wallet Essentials
We think these are simply the perfect gift for the perfectly gifted musician. And who’s to argue with that. So when Mark Knopfler pops round for a quick jam session with Sting, you just need to get on down and reach for your wallet.
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The Apple Store showed its familiar “Back Soon” sticky note this morning, and then popped back up with a shiny new selection of iMacs. The top of the line 24″ iMac now sports a 45nm 3.06Ghz Core 2 Duo Penryn processor and an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512MB memory. Hard drive sizes range from 250GB to 500GB, all models contain a SuperDrive and all but the lowly 2.4 GHz, 20″ models get 2GB RAM as standard (the baby has to make do with just 1GB). All models still display the controversial “millions of colors”, if you feel like counting them.
Prices still start at $1200 and top out at $2200. You can, of course, beef up the specs with custom options and arrive at $2650. Or you could order an Open Computer for just $400 and enjoy a few whole weeks of Mac computing before everything breaks.
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by Darren Murph, posted Apr 27th 2008 at 7:06AM
Talk about escaping the label of vaporware by this much. We’ve been hearing that holographic storage was right around the bend from InPhase for well over three years now, but it has finally managed to get its ducks in a row and should start shipping the unicorn-like Tapestry 300r next month. The firm had a demonstrative version on display at NAB Show earlier this month, and apparently real live working units will be making their way out to archival junkies in just weeks. Granted, it will demand a whopping $18,000 to get a shipping label made with your address on it, and each piece of 300GB media is $180 — but hey, that’s the price you pay these days to know that you’ll decompose before your data degrades.
[Via The Register]
Filed under: Storage
In case you’ve got many gadgets and want one useful solution to charge all of them, take a look at the blueLounge Sanctuary.
The special charging tray supports more than 1,500 products - in the end you’ve got 1 box, with 12 built-in connectors in the inside, which makes the compatibility include 50 brands.
Be it Nokia/Samsung/Sony Ericsson cellphones, or portable media players from Apple/Creative, and even blackberry’s. Did I mention a USB/mini-USB port?
The blueLounge Sanctuary Charging Tray costs 65.
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by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Apr 27th 2008 at 6:33PM
Waiting for a price drop on the Nintendo Wii or DS? Don’t hold your breath. Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata told analysts on Friday that there are no price drop plans for the hot-selling units. Iwata insisted this is because Nintendo doesn’t want to annoy those who already paid full price, but it’s pretty clear that there’s also just no need to drop the price on something that’s already selling like mad.
[Via Joystiq]
Filed under: Gaming
by Nilay Patel, posted Apr 25th 2008 at 9:21PM
NVIDIA’s been on a hyper-competitive tear lately, and while the latest rumor isn’t quite on par with Roy Taylor saying that the Intel CPU is “dead,” it reinforces the company’s new win-at-all-costs attitude. Seems ATI’s upcoming RV770-based Radeon HD 4800 might threaten NVIDIA’s dominance of the high-end graphics market, and that’s just not acceptable — so the company is planning on pushing up the release of the GeForce 9900 to July. That’s one billion transistors and GDDR3 memory, if you haven’t been memorizing rumored graphic card specs — we’re guessing that blue screen of death will render mighty fast on that rig.
Filed under: Misc. gadgets
