Market research mavens NPD went computer shopping, and came back with some  info we’ve all suspected for a long time: Desktop or laptop, a Macintosh computer costs more than double a roughly comparable Windows PC machine. Since they compiled prices for three years running, they also saw which way the trend line was going. Average selling prices for Macs either went up or stayed the same, depending on whether it’s a desktop or laptop, while Windows machine prices either held steady, like desktops, or in

From a technical perspective, the biggest advantage Blu-ray discs (BD) offer is more storage space–up to 25GB (for single-layer discs) or 50GB (for dual-layer discs). From a more practical standpoint, the best thing BD brings to the table is higher-quality, high-definition (HD) movies. More storage space means less data needs need to be compressed to fit on the disc–which is how we’re able to get 1080p BD movies. But what happens when Quad HDTV (3840×2160 resolution: 2160p) makes its debut in a few years?

Designed for the home or home office, the MFC-440cn includes everything you need in one small footprint, including an Ethernet interface so you can share it with others on your network. Upload photos directly from your digital camera media cards or print directly from the PictBridge interface. Preview and select the desired images on the intuitive, 2″ color flip-up LCD display. When ready to print, simply engage the built-in Photo Bypass Tray and receive high quality 4″ x 6″ prints. This deal ends Thursday at 12:00pm ET.

Touchscreen technology isn’t really all that new, but the popularity of Apple’s iPhone has whetted the public’s appetite for putting their fingers on the screen and doing things. But the technology that makes tiny phone screens react to touch would be prohibitively expensive on a screen even as large a UMPC, never mind the typical desktop’s widescreen.  HP and Microsoft use a different technology to track the movements of your fingers on a screen, and HP is planning on offering multiple touchscreen products

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a dangerous legal precedent has just been set that can potentially unravel existing federal privacy protections for e-mail and Internet usage. The alert from the EFF is not just to sound a general warning, but it also takes the form of an Amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief, filed with the federal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asking for the court’s legal finding to be overturned. In the recent case of “Justin Bunnell, Forrest Parker, Wes Parker

Market research mavens NPD went computer shopping, and came back with some  info we’ve all suspected for a long time: Desktop or laptop, a Macintosh computer costs more than double a roughly comparable Windows PC machine. Since they compiled prices for three years running, they also saw which way the trend line was going. Average selling prices for Macs either went up or stayed the same, depending on whether it’s a desktop or laptop, while Windows machine prices either held steady, like desktops, or in

GIGABYTE Announces Ultimate IGP GA-MA790GP-DS4H Motherboard Featuring DDR3 Side Port Memory and Outstanding Overclocking Performance City of Industry, CA, August 6, 2008 – GIGABYTE UNITED INC., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards today announced the launch of the GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP-DS4H, further cementing GIGABYTE’s leadership position for the AMD AM2+ platform by enabling a new generation of motherboards which push the boundaries of integrated graphics performance and overclocking potential.

TGDaily has some interesting information on the upcoming AMD Fusion launch plans and how they have changed revently, which is a common thing in this industry. They say that the first Fusuon processor will basically be a dual-core Phenom processor with an RV800 GPU core all in one package that is code-named Shrike. Long live Shrike!

The first Fusion processor is code-named Shrike, which will, if our sources are right, consist of a dual-core Phenom CPU and an ATI RV800 GPU core. This news is actually a big surprise, as Shrike was originally rumored to debut as a combination of a dual-core Kuma CPU and a RV710-based graphics unit. A few more quarters of development time gave AMD time to continue working on a low-end RV800-based core to be integrated with Fusion. RV800 chips will be DirectX 10.1 compliant and are expected to deliver a bit more than just a 55 nm-40 nm dieshrink. While Shrike will debut as a 40 nm chip, the processor is scheduled to transition to 32 nm at the beginning of 2010 – not much later than Intel will introduce 32 nm – and serve as a stop-gap before the next-gen CPU core, code-named “Bulldozer” arrives.

AMD announced plans today to provide full support for Microsoft DirectX 11 and OpenCL to enable increased C/C++ cross platform programming efficiency, see the full press release below. Over the next 18-months, AMD plans to make a series of extensive upgrades to its Stream Software Development Kit, which are specifically designed to reduce the time and effort needed to produce GPU accelerated applications that can run on multiple platforms.  AMD Drives Adoption of Industry Standards in GPGPU Software Development

From a technical perspective, the biggest advantage Blu-ray discs (BD) offer is more storage space–up to 25GB (for single-layer discs) or 50GB (for dual-layer discs). From a more practical standpoint, the best thing BD brings to the table is higher-quality, high-definition (HD) movies. More storage space means less data needs need to be compressed to fit on the disc–which is how we’re able to get 1080p BD movies. But what happens when Quad HDTV (3840×2160 resolution: 2160p) makes its debut in a few years?