Microsoft have officially dropped the price of some Vista packages. The highest price drop has been seen on Ultimate, which is now available for $US320, down from $US400. Does this mean you will buy it instead of downloading it from your favourite bittorrent site? Probably not.
For more info, click over to Engadget.
If you own a Nikon D80 and haven’t done a firmware upgrade yet, it is time to do it. Though it isn’t life changing for most, it does add support for the new USB Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) and fixes a effects of noise reduction processing performed at shutter speeds of 1 - 8s with shutter speed set to “bulb”, when ON is selected for Long Exp. Did I mention it is now “Certified for Windows Vista”? Will it is.
For more info, click over to Crave. For the firmware go here for Windows, or here for Mac.
If you have heard all this hype about the new Dell XPS One desktop machine, which is basically an iMac that’s black and runs Vista, then you might have heard of the One (PRODUCT) RED. It was designed as a limited item that would give $US80 to Global Fund from every purchase.
There is one issue though, and that is the price. The standard Dell XPS One costs $US1299, which is expensive as is, comes with Vista Home and Works. The Red comes in at $US1599 and comes with Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 Student. You pay $300 more, but only $80 goes to charity?
On top of that, it seems someone over at Engadget has worked out that you could buy both those Microsoft upgrades for as little as $US200. This means, you are paying for the software, the charity and they still making an extra $20 on you.
This whole RED campaign to raise money for charity is fantastic, but to raise money for profits is pure bad. Dell and Microsoft, this is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen, and I hope that enough people about it before they blow their money on your cruel plans.
For more info, click over to Engadget.
It is CES time, and as I previously predicted, there is a lot of UMPC news. The new articles that I noticed the most today are based around the Kohjinsha SR8KP06, Asus R50a, Lenovo MID, Aigo MID and WiBro MID. For the people who don’t know, and so I don’t have to go through it later, MID stands for Mobile Internet Device.