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It is several years that NVidia, ahead of its time, tried to impose its 3D display system on computers. Up to now, they did not have much success until the advent of 3D television gave it a new kick of life. For this purpose, they decided an important thing, to modify their software " 3DTV [...]

According to Fudzilla, NVIDIA might price its future high-end model, aka GeForce GTX 480 around 450 €. If this is more expensive than the current high-end ATI Radeon HD 5870, it will be less expensive than some previous graphic card models launched at 600 € in the past.Let’s hope now that Apple will refresh its [...]

The current trend on the SSD market follows the scheme we were expecting: one of side 100 € SSD models offering low capacity and one the other side models with more storage space and higher performance levels thanks to top notch controllers. While OCZ was mostly offering products belonging to the second category beside entry [...]

Digitimes announced that the price of Blu-ray drives dramatically dropped over the past weeks, reaching a price range of 70 to 80 USD. It remains more expensive than the DVD burner drive; however it could help computer companies to integrate such optical drive more often in their models, of course for Apple one would need [...]

This is a rather hot topic, as many EU customers are already complaining about the higher price of Mac on this side of the Atlantic, when compared to USA; especially considering that we are closer to the assembling lines located in China… The way our Mac get more expensive might not only be associated with [...]

It has been a long time sice there has been such a festival of Mac minis on the Refurb.  There are 4 versions on offer. Attention, the model with 499 euros is less interesting than that to 469 (understand). Even the high-end server model equipped with two hard disks and Mac OS X server is on offer. [...]

Apple will market two versions of the iPad. The first will be able to be connected to Internet only via Wi-Fi while the other, a more expensive version, will be able also to do this via the 3G, using a dedicated subscription. AT&T is not very optimistic on the incomes that they will be able [...]

We have reported in the past about those unfortunate iPhone owners who received invoices for having used data abroad without noticing the roaming cost and outrageous , while being out side Europe or in Europe, with figures usually reaching dozens of thousand euro. This was almost unfortunate as users forgot to switch off an option [...]

Another proof that the future Xeon Core i7 featuring 6 cores per CPU, known as Gulftown, is around the corner. A german reseller already added it to its catalog as a new product to be available in a very near future. The Core i7 980X clocked at 3.33 GHz, features 12 MB of cache L2 [...]

Crucial finally released the world fastest SSD. The manufacturer is only communicating on its reading performance level, really impressive: 355 MB/s. The drive is available from their online store (438.92 € for the 128 GB unit) and (689.71 € for the 256 GB unit). Small detail: to benefit from such performance level, we would need [...]

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