While Core i7 presents a new performance paradigm, the heinously gluttonous Australian prices will need to come down before it's accepted by the mainstream.
Typing purists, gamers, and computing old schoolers will love the Das Professional Keyboard and its satisfying mechanical switch design. Most casual users, however, will balk at the AU$132 price for such an otherwise spare input device.
The differences between Europe and America run deep: gourmet versus supersize me, small hatches versus big SUVs, public transport versus Interstates, and so forth. You can add g/km versus mpg to the list too now.
After research conducted by two Queensland legal academics ignited debate yesterday over whether Apple will be allowed to lock the iPhone to an exclusive carrier, Trade Practices experts have agreed that to do so might contravene regulations, but it will make little difference to the company.
Internet service provider Netspace has stopped offering top-end broadband plans in Tasmania, claiming Telstra's price hike for Internet traffic haulage to the mainland was too costly.
Record label EMI Music Publishing is talking to YouTube, Revver and other video upload sites about alliances that would help it monitor and curtail misuse of its copyrights -- and loss of advertising or download sales -- from unauthorised music videos that are posted to their sites.
Since its release, the iPhone has had more than its share of press. Love it or hate it, everyone's been talking about it and looking at its sleek, colourful interface, it's hard not to fall in love with it. But like most decisions based on emotion, buying one may not be the smartest thing to do — at least, not yet.
It's easy to list the benefits of bringing inexpensive computers to the billions of people who live in rural villages and urban centres in the developing world.