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Phones
Whiners Of The World: Shut Up About The IPhone 3GS’ Upgrade Price
10:50PM Jesus Diaz | So you bought your heavily subsidised iPhone 3G with a two-year contract and now you are upset because AT&T wants to charge you full price for the new iPhone 3GS, right? Well, stop whining. You have no arguments. More »
Random Stuff
Death Star Costs $US15.6 Septillion, 1.4 Trillion Times the US Debt
10:53PM Jesus Diaz | If you had $US15.6 septillion and 94 cents in your account, would you save the world from the economic crisis or build a Death Star, destroy the world, and move on to invade the galaxy? More »
Games
9:14AM Nick Broughall | One of things that always bugged me about the Xbox 360 was that after spending a heap of cash on the console, you’d still need to fork out another $170 just so you could get online wirelessly without running an Ethernet cable through the house. Fortunately, Microsoft have come to their sense and dropped the price of many of its peripherals – including the wireless network adapter. Now you can play 360 over your home wireless network for just… $150. That’s right, it’s a saving of $20!
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Microsoft Cuts Xbox 360 Peripheral Prices
9:14AM Nick Broughall | One of things that always bugged me about the Xbox 360 was that after spending a heap of cash on the console, you’d still need to fork out another $170 just so you could get online wirelessly without running an Ethernet cable through the house. Fortunately, Microsoft have come to their sense and dropped the price of many of its peripherals – including the wireless network adapter. Now you can play 360 over your home wireless network for just… $150. That’s right, it’s a saving of $20!
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Screens
Huge Labour Day HDTV Price Drop Coming Up
3:15AM John Mahoney | Just in time for NFL, the World Series and all those delightful new network sitcom premieres, Gary over at HD Guru has caught wind of an across-the-board price drop that will lower prices of 2008 panels by a couple hundred dollars. Tons of Samsung’s series 5, 6 and 7 sets will see a drop of US$100-US$200, with Sony, Mitsubishi and Panasonic expected to follow suit by Labour day, so it’s probably a good idea to hold your horses on that new set until the prices start to fall, Wal-Mart style. Head over to HD Guru for Samsung’s full discounted model list. AU: Not sure if this will carry across to AU, but might be worth holding off just in case, right? [HD Guru] More »
Computers
Study: Average Mac Computer Price More That Twice That of Average PC
4:15AM Adam Frucci | Fanboys, get your commenting fingers warmed up. A new study shows that, on average, the cost of a Windows PC is half that of an Apple computer. According to data collected by the NPD group, the average Windows notebook goes for US$700, while the average Apple laptop costs above US$1,500, dropping a mere US$59 in the last two years. And that’s nothing compared to desktop computers. More »
Phones
9:36AM Nick Broughall | In Australia, we have an advantage over other countries in that we have several networks offering the iPhone. Of course, the downside of this is that there is a lot more information to try and digest before you make the decision of where your money should be spent.
Fortunately, reader Andrew has come up with an incredibly awesome iPhone plan calculator. Simply slide the scales to your approximate usage, and you’ll be given a solid guide of which plans will suit you in your iPhone purchase, including the monthly cost and the total cost of ownership.
If Pythagoras was alive today, this is exactly the kind of practical mathematics he would spend his time working on. If you’re looking for an iPhone, make sure you check this out before you empty your wallet.
[Numbers in a flash - Thanks Andrew!]
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Online Calculator Makes Choosing Your iPhone Plan Simple
9:36AM Nick Broughall | In Australia, we have an advantage over other countries in that we have several networks offering the iPhone. Of course, the downside of this is that there is a lot more information to try and digest before you make the decision of where your money should be spent.
Fortunately, reader Andrew has come up with an incredibly awesome iPhone plan calculator. Simply slide the scales to your approximate usage, and you’ll be given a solid guide of which plans will suit you in your iPhone purchase, including the monthly cost and the total cost of ownership.
If Pythagoras was alive today, this is exactly the kind of practical mathematics he would spend his time working on. If you’re looking for an iPhone, make sure you check this out before you empty your wallet.
[Numbers in a flash - Thanks Andrew!]
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Games
Update: Screen Grab Allegedly Confirms $199 Xbox 360 Price Cut Rumour
5:30AM Jack Loftus | The US$199 Xbox 360 price cut rumour we reported on yesterday got a little more real today after a screenshot surfaced showing the updated SKU for the Arcade model. VGChartz got the scoop, and noticed that the September 7 release date for the updated SKU coincides with some other big Xbox 360 events: the launches of Square Enix’s Infinite Undiscovery and Rock Band 2. Both titles are Xbox 360 exclusives around the price drop time frame (although as Kotaku notes, Rock Band 2 comes out for other systems in November). [VGChartz via Kotaku] More »
Games
Rumour Says Xbox 360 Getting Another Price Cut in September
6:00AM Jason Chen | The Xbox 360 “price cut” in July wasn’t so much a price cut as it was a swapping of parts, but Ars says there’s an actual price cut coming in September. According to their source—who also told them about the impending 60GB switch-out prior to E3—the Arcade is dropping to US$199, the 60GB Pro to US$299, and the 120GB Elite to US$399. So say we all. [Ars Technica] More »
Phones
Nokia Slashes Mobile Phone Prices as Much as 10%
9:30AM Jesus Diaz | Trying to put pressure on their competition, or feeling the pressure from increasing Samsung and LG market share, Nokia has reduced many handset prices by 10%–mostly music and media phones–but also making discounts across the whole portfolio. Analyst and Sean Connery-fan David Hallden calls the move a Crazy Ivan: More »
Computers
Updated: Dell Hybrid Will Cost $999 In Australia;
12:42PM Nick Broughall | UPDATE: Turns out that the Australian Hybrid machines are higher specced than their US cousins – So rather than hating us, Dell actually love us by giving us better hardware. For a full list of differences, you can check out the Dell websites, but we get 2GB RAM and a 320GB hard drive instead of 1GB and 250GB. The same spec upgrades go for the Latitude PCs as well…
We saw the Dell Hybrid announcement come from the US overnight, and its US$499 price tag was actually pretty exciting for a desktop computer. Of course, the computer was pretty exciting itself – 80% smaller, using 70% less power and packed in 95% recycleable packaging.
But now that the pricing for Australia has been announced, some of that excitement has quickly worn off.
If you’re interested in greening up your desktop PC with one of these bamboo-cased wonders, you may need to start saving, as Dell in Australia have the starting price set at $999 – almost double the US price. The US$499 equates to $525 on today’s exchange rate.
Obviously the exchange rate isn’t everything when it comes to pricing – there’s also the whole ‘economies of scale’ thing – Dell are going to sell a lot more of these in the US than they will in Australia (just based on populations), so they can afford to reduce the profit margin over there. But double the price? That’s a bit rich, isn’t it? More »
Updated: Dell Hybrid Will Cost $999 In Australia; Why do They Hate Us?
12:42PM Nick Broughall | UPDATE: Turns out that the Australian Hybrid machines are higher specced than their US cousins – So rather than hating us, Dell actually love us by giving us better hardware. For a full list of differences, you can check out the Dell websites, but we get 2GB RAM and a 320GB hard drive instead of 1GB and 250GB. The same spec upgrades go for the Latitude PCs as well…
We saw the Dell Hybrid announcement come from the US overnight, and its US$499 price tag was actually pretty exciting for a desktop computer. Of course, the computer was pretty exciting itself – 80% smaller, using 70% less power and packed in 95% recycleable packaging.
But now that the pricing for Australia has been announced, some of that excitement has quickly worn off.
If you’re interested in greening up your desktop PC with one of these bamboo-cased wonders, you may need to start saving, as Dell in Australia have the starting price set at $999 – almost double the US price. The US$499 equates to $525 on today’s exchange rate.
Obviously the exchange rate isn’t everything when it comes to pricing – there’s also the whole ‘economies of scale’ thing – Dell are going to sell a lot more of these in the US than they will in Australia (just based on populations), so they can afford to reduce the profit margin over there. But double the price? That’s a bit rich, isn’t it? More » 