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Is the Gaming PC Dead? 417

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @03:48AM from the no-way-dude-check-out-my-$8000-alienware dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Rahul Sood, HP's CTO of gaming, argues that the days of a market that wants PCs running three $500 GPUs is history; he argues that it's really a tough or impossible sell. '... let's face it, high-end hardware has delivered diminishing returns in terms of value. This is why you don't see ridiculous offerings like Quad SLI and 2-kilowatt power supplies coming from our company.' But don't the ideas of customization and market pricing for components tend to undercut that? Is the gaming PC dead?"

Looming Royalty Decision Threatens iTunes Store, Apple Hints 279

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 02, 2008 @03:34PM from the but-each-penny-is-only-wafer-thin dept.

eldavojohn writes "You may recall us discussing some legislation about online music. More decisions are being made that may affect how much money Apple must impart to labels and musicians. Right now, it's 9 cents a track — which adds up, when you sell 2.4 billion tracks each year. The Copyright Royalty Board is asking for 15 cents a track (66% increase) and Apple isn't going to agree." Reader scorp1us points out a similar article at CNN; both stories mention that Apple has intimated such a change might cause a complete shutdown of the iTunes Music Store. Update: 10/02 21:03 GMT by T : According to CNet, the rate has been officially frozen at 9.1 cents per track.

Fossett's Plane Found 356

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 02, 2008 @02:54PM from the last-word dept.

otter42 writes "Sadly, it looks as if all those crazies claiming Steve Fossett was still alive were wrong after all. The NY Times has the confirmation that wreckage of Fossett's Bellanca Citabria was found. Now it's up to the NTSB to tell us why this happened, although, statistically, dollars to donuts it was engine/fuel-related."

Comment Re:overclockers (Score 1) 520

by cestlatable on Sunday September 07, 2008 @09:10AM (#24909527) Attached to: Which Vendors Do You Trust For PC Parts?

Funnily enough overclockers are just round the corner from me! Bought from all these (Viewing a BENQ FP93VW 19" Widescreen from Komplett as we speak :) )and the OP bar www.scan.co.uk - so just wanted to add: www.ebuyer.com & www.jigsaw24.com (For Mac) Only any use for the UK based slashdotters but personally i have found them both to be really well priced with great service YMMV!

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