PlayStation 3

In a bid to increase the popularity of its PlayStation 3 game console, the premium version of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.’s latest gaming machine will reportedly cost $100 less soon. Unfortunately, it is not exactly clear whether the price drop comes from Sony itself, or just a promo campaign by a store chain.



A Circuit City retail chain advertisement at Kotaku web-site displays black PlayStation 3 game console listed for $499.99, one hundred of dollars less than the official price of $599. However, the ad also says that the price will be effective starting from the 15th of July and ending on the 21st of July. Therefore, it is unclear whether the drop is a result of price policy reconsideration by Sony, or just Circuit City’s and/or Sony’s attempt to attract additional PlayStation fans into stores during seasonally weak summer season.

AMD Shows Off More Quad

Advanced Micro Devices recently demonstrated more test results of its quad-core code-named Barcelona processors for servers, which once again confirmed the potential of its new chips, but also rose questions whether the current implementation of the product can beat the competing Intel Xeon offerings hands down.



The new quad-core AMD Opteron “Barcelona” processors at 2.60GHz can deliver 21% performance gain compared to quad-core Intel Xeon 5355 (2.66GHz) in SPECint_rate2006 and 50% speed improvement over Intel Xeon 5355 in SPECfp_rate2006 benchmarks.

The integer and floating point benchmarks results of AMD’s code-named Barcelona imply that the new product by AMD is considerably faster compared to Intel’s quad-core chip at the same clock-speed.

ASUS R1F – First Tablet from ASUSTeK Lab
[ 07/03/07 | Mobile]

If you consider yourself one of those active, hard-working people whose activities are not limited to the office, then the new ASUS R1F Tablet PC is made for you. It is an excellent mix of optimal weight/size parameters and superb ergonomics. This transformer supports both keyboard- and stylus-based data input and features an advanced hardware configuration as well as a long battery life. Read more in our detailed coverage!