by Brooke Crothers October 29, 2008
Advanced Micro Devices' first 45-nanometer chip, the Shanghai quad-core Opteron, has made its debut at resellers. The officially unannounced Opteron 837X and 838X series processors are not cheap. Online reseller PC Connection lists the Opteron QC (quad-core) 8384 at $2,509. Another reseller, Buy.com lists the same processor at $2,240. The 8384 is expected to run at 2.7GHz and draw 75 watts, relatively low power consumption for a quad-core server processor. The 8385--same clock speed with a faster system bus--is offered for $2,509 at PC Connection. Other processors listed include the 8382 (2.6GHz), 8380 (2.5GHz), and 8378 (2.4GHz), priced at $2,177, $1,768, and $1,360 respectively at PC Connection. Note that these prices will differ from official pricing from AMD. The Shanghai Opteron 230X series includes the 2382 (2.6GHz) and 2380 (2.5GHz). These are priced at $1,019 and $814 respectively at PC Connnection. Rollout of the chip is expected officially on November 13, according to industry sources.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Mitsubishi beams out first laser-powered TV
Laservue 65-incher doesn't even need shades to watch
By Mark Harris Oct. 29, 2008
Starting from today, you can own a little bit of history - the world's first laser-powered telly. Mitsubishi America is finally stocking shelves with the LaserVue L65-A90, a 65-inch rear projection set that uses DLP technology (usually found in projectors) to deliver amazing colour depth. The Laservue set claims to be able to deliver twice the colour gamut of HDTV standard, using just 135W - a third of the power of a typical LCD and a quarter of those planet-hating plasmas. The A90 comes '3D Ready', a fairly meaningless term seeing as Blu-ray and other packaged media lack any 3D standards, but presumably there will be a few games that make use of it in the future.
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By Mark Harris Oct. 29, 2008
Starting from today, you can own a little bit of history - the world's first laser-powered telly. Mitsubishi America is finally stocking shelves with the LaserVue L65-A90, a 65-inch rear projection set that uses DLP technology (usually found in projectors) to deliver amazing colour depth. The Laservue set claims to be able to deliver twice the colour gamut of HDTV standard, using just 135W - a third of the power of a typical LCD and a quarter of those planet-hating plasmas. The A90 comes '3D Ready', a fairly meaningless term seeing as Blu-ray and other packaged media lack any 3D standards, but presumably there will be a few games that make use of it in the future.
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Apple's iPod is no Longer a Cash Cow
By Jason Mick - October 29, 2008
In 2001, Apple was a shell of the vibrant company it had been in the 1980s. Battered by years of losses to Microsoft, the company had little options. It had virtually no market share in the personal computer industry, and little brand image. Then the company invented a seemingly insignificant little device that would go on to change everything -- the iPod. The iPod not only turned around Apple's finances, it redefined the entire company. Apple went from a tired elitist on the brink of financial collapse to a hip trend-setter delivering music to the masses and with plenty of cash to burn. In Q1 2006, just 5 years after the launch of the iPod, the iconic device accounted for 55.6 percent of Apple's sales. However, over the last couple years, something curious has happened -- the iPod has grown increasingly insignificant to Apple. First there was the so-called "halo effect", in which increased sales of iPods led to increased sales of Mac computers and OS X. With the halo effect Apple's computers were suddenly hot items.
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In 2001, Apple was a shell of the vibrant company it had been in the 1980s. Battered by years of losses to Microsoft, the company had little options. It had virtually no market share in the personal computer industry, and little brand image. Then the company invented a seemingly insignificant little device that would go on to change everything -- the iPod. The iPod not only turned around Apple's finances, it redefined the entire company. Apple went from a tired elitist on the brink of financial collapse to a hip trend-setter delivering music to the masses and with plenty of cash to burn. In Q1 2006, just 5 years after the launch of the iPod, the iconic device accounted for 55.6 percent of Apple's sales. However, over the last couple years, something curious has happened -- the iPod has grown increasingly insignificant to Apple. First there was the so-called "halo effect", in which increased sales of iPods led to increased sales of Mac computers and OS X. With the halo effect Apple's computers were suddenly hot items.
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