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Closing the Mac price gap
ZDNet Blogs - I was digging through some old crates in my garage last night and stumbled across some of my old college notebooks. While flipping through them I happened across a couple of computer price lists for students. I graduated from Drexel University in

NVIDIA Introduces PureVideo HD - Essential Technology for the Ultimate
WLNS - PureVideo(TM) HD Technology Combines High Definition Features With HDCP Support to Provide Stunning Blu-ray and HD DVD Movie Playback on PCs COMPUTEX, TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled PureVideo HD

Manufacturers admit to Ultra Mobile PC problems
VNUnet - High prices and low battery life are key concerns for companies trying to sell handheld PCs based on Microsoft 's Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) platform, staff at one of those manufacturers told vnunet.com today. Taiwan-based PC and components makers

VIA unveils PC on a chip
VNUnet - Chipmaker VIA Technologies has announced a single chip which can replace the majority of the key components on a PC mainboard. The chip will go into mass production later this year, and is expected to appear in products next year, sources said today

Apple's Intel Choice to Pay Off in New Chips
Mac Observer - When Apple Computer announced that it was abandoning the PowerPC processors that it had been using for years in favor of processors from Intel, some analysts questioned why the Mac wouldn't house chips from AMD. The answer to that question seems to