hardware

(Formerly) Canada’s ATI makes a huge comeback in the graphics business

The graphics company once know as ATI has launched something of a coup this week with two new products the Radeon 4850 and 4870. NVDIA has been dominating the desktop 3D graphics market for a while now but it looks it’s now ATI’s turn to leapfrog. Now it’s just too bad they got themselves bought […]

The G-phone stirreth

Google said to be shipping 50,000 Gphones by year’s end. A UBS analyst is rumored to have information that HTC, a Taiwanese handset manufacturer, will ship about 50,000 cell phones made for Google by the end of
the year. “These initial phones are not going to be for sale, says Benjamin Schachter, at UBS. “These are […]

Hold on to your dollars

The Canadian Dollar reached parity with the U.S. Greenback yesterday. In on honour of this auspicious day, I thought I’d see how translates for far for tech consumers out there. Comparing prices at Apple.ca and Apple.com. Remember 1CAD = 1USD.

 
CAD
USD
Premium

iPod Touch
329
299
10.0%

iPod Nano
169
149
13.4%

MacBook
1249
1099
13.6%

MacBookPro
2199
1999
10.0%

iMac
1399
1199
7%

iPhone
*sigh*
399
Infinity

UPDATE: Given the recent strength in the Loonie has as much to do […]

6 Big Myths about buying a laptop computer

I get asked this one a lot, and here is what you need to know. My advice may surprise you. I’m going to explode a few popular myths by explaining what not to look for then give my advice for what’s really important.
What really doesn’t matter:

MHz doesn’t matter - Don’t pay a lot extra […]

 

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