Sony will drop the price of their leading Blu-Ray player (DP-S350) by $100 to $299. A higher end model (BDP-S550) will be coming in October, and selling for $399. The manufactuere, Funai, which produces Blu-Ray players under the brands of hilips/Magnavox, Sylvania and Insignia, will drop their prices to by $50 to $250 in September. If only the prices went to around $100, then it’d really get mainstream.

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The Acer Aspire One laptop packing Windows XP dropped from $399 to $349. The linux version will drop from $379 to $329. And the professional version will become $400 with a 6 cell battery and a 160 GB hard drive.  The Aspire One is only 2.17 pounds, has a Intel Atom Processor, 1 GB of ram, and a 120 GB hard drive. Aspire One>Eee PC, but that’s just me. It all depends on the type of operating system and hardware requirements one prefers.

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Quad Core in laptops, already? Intel’s quad core for the mini market will be dubbed the Core 2 Extreme. Using 45 watts, it is currently unclear whether the architecture of the processor will be based on Penryn or the Nahalem. I wonder how they’re going to cool this thing. It might burn a whole through your laptop.

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Seems like every time a new standard comes out, everything gets doubled nowadays. The Serial ATA International Organization has announced the almost-done specs and plans for SATA 3.0, and that big companies can start to design products for it. It is expected to be completed in the second half of this year. Furthermore, SATA 3.0 will remain backward compatible with current SATA 2.0 configurations.

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