A number of ISPs are experimenting with a usage based bandwidth model.
If you utilize bandwidth from a person using such an ISP, it really is stealing.
All of the new 360 SKUs have games included in the box.
The $280 Arcade model has a 256MB memory card for game saves, now has a wireless controller, and includes 5 arcade games (Boom-Boom Rocket, Pac-man, Uno, Feeding Frenzy, and Luxor 2) on a DVD.
The $350 Pro model includes Forza 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
The $450 Elite model also includes Forza 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
Forget the whole "month" thing. The section of the year that NPD calls "June" was a 5 week tracking period for NPD. The section of the year NPD calls "May" was a 4 week tracking period for NPD. That is NPD's own method for dividing up the year into weeks.
If you sell 82,000 things in 4 weeks, but during the next 5 weeks, you sell 98,500 things, when were sales better? During the first 4 weeks? Or during the next 5 weeks?
I think I had that question on one of my 5th grade exams. If you answered that question using Sony's method, the teacher would mark it as incorrect.
NPD counts sales on a per week basis, not monthly. But the tallies are reported monthly. With NPD, not all months are 4 weeks. If every month was 4 weeks, they would only end up counting 12 * 4 = 48 weeks in a year. There are 52 weeks in a year, so they need 4 months out of the year to be a 5 week period.
June is one of those 5 week periods.
If you take this into account, weekly PS3 sales were actually DOWN for June vs May, not up! This is the only valid way to measure sales for months that have a different number of weeks in them.
So in May, they sold 82,000/4 = 20500 PS3s per week.
In June, they sold 98,500/5 = 19,700 PS3s per week.
Sales didn't increase by 21% in June, they decreased by 4%!
I bought my XBox 360 Premium last Christmas for $200 from Micro Center after 2 $100 rebates. Not all deals are that good, of course, but you can find great deals on the 360 quite often. $50 and $100 rebates and gift card deals can be found.
And not all games for the 360 are $60. Since the console has been on the market for a year and a half, you can find full games for $20, $30, $40, etc...
The HD-DVD drive for the 360 is already out. It has been out for well over a month.
And XBox Live costs $50 for a 13 month card. So that is $3.84 a month in order to have a best in class online service with an integrated GLOBAL friend's list.
I don't know where you got $15 per month.
They also have a deal where if you sign up for their credit card and spend $400 in store that day, you will get enough points on the credit card to get $100 back. That makes the XBox 360 Premium just $200. Talk about a no brainer. I got mine 2 weeks ago.
What if you are travelling on business? Not every flight is a vacation.
I bring my laptop on vacations so we can load the pictures that we take onto it and free up the memory cards for the next day. It is also nice to view the pictures in the hotel after a day of fun.
The Lego stores are fantastic places, though. What other store can you go into with your child and walk out with a real quality toy for just $4 these days? They tend to have great sales, too.
You know you can actually look up the prices of the Xeon 5100 series and the Opterons. The Xeon is very competetive, if not cheaper than AMD's offerings.
Huh? Intel's Pentium D 805 is a dual core 2.66GHz processor that supports 64-bit that is going to be cut to just $93 in another month. Right now, it is $119.
AMD's cheapest dual core is the Athlon 64 3800+ for $297 at NewEgg right now.
Did you not know that Intel added 64-bit support to the Pentium lineup a while back?
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A number of ISPs are experimenting with a usage based bandwidth model. If you utilize bandwidth from a person using such an ISP, it really is stealing.
All of the new 360 SKUs have games included in the box.
The $280 Arcade model has a 256MB memory card for game saves, now has a wireless controller, and includes 5 arcade games (Boom-Boom Rocket, Pac-man, Uno, Feeding Frenzy, and Luxor 2) on a DVD.
The $350 Pro model includes Forza 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
The $450 Elite model also includes Forza 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
The latest Xeons are all Core 2 derived parts. Your comparison is horribly dated.
They aren't my semantics, they are NPD's semantics. Read this if you want to learn more: http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=421
Forget the whole "month" thing. The section of the year that NPD calls "June" was a 5 week tracking period for NPD. The section of the year NPD calls "May" was a 4 week tracking period for NPD. That is NPD's own method for dividing up the year into weeks.
If you sell 82,000 things in 4 weeks, but during the next 5 weeks, you sell 98,500 things, when were sales better? During the first 4 weeks? Or during the next 5 weeks?
I think I had that question on one of my 5th grade exams. If you answered that question using Sony's method, the teacher would mark it as incorrect.
NPD counts sales on a per week basis, not monthly. But the tallies are reported monthly. With NPD, not all months are 4 weeks. If every month was 4 weeks, they would only end up counting 12 * 4 = 48 weeks in a year. There are 52 weeks in a year, so they need 4 months out of the year to be a 5 week period.
June is one of those 5 week periods.
If you take this into account, weekly PS3 sales were actually DOWN for June vs May, not up! This is the only valid way to measure sales for months that have a different number of weeks in them.
So in May, they sold 82,000/4 = 20500 PS3s per week.
In June, they sold 98,500/5 = 19,700 PS3s per week.
Sales didn't increase by 21% in June, they decreased by 4%!
I bought my XBox 360 Premium last Christmas for $200 from Micro Center after 2 $100 rebates. Not all deals are that good, of course, but you can find great deals on the 360 quite often. $50 and $100 rebates and gift card deals can be found.
And not all games for the 360 are $60. Since the console has been on the market for a year and a half, you can find full games for $20, $30, $40, etc...
Roomba has the right idea. I love my Roomba Sage. My house has never been so damn clean.
No no no. All the cool games will run like this: LOAD "*",8,1 SYS 49152
The HD-DVD drive for the 360 is already out. It has been out for well over a month. And XBox Live costs $50 for a 13 month card. So that is $3.84 a month in order to have a best in class online service with an integrated GLOBAL friend's list. I don't know where you got $15 per month.
The 65nm Pentium 4 Extreme 955 came out in December of 2005, actually. Intel has been shipping 65nm processors for a full year.
They also have a deal where if you sign up for their credit card and spend $400 in store that day, you will get enough points on the credit card to get $100 back. That makes the XBox 360 Premium just $200. Talk about a no brainer. I got mine 2 weeks ago.
You can already play HD-DVD and Blu-Ray movies on PCs. Where have you been? The XBox 360 HD-DVD drive works just fine on a PC.
What if you are travelling on business? Not every flight is a vacation. I bring my laptop on vacations so we can load the pictures that we take onto it and free up the memory cards for the next day. It is also nice to view the pictures in the hotel after a day of fun.
"but there's still a lack of basic parts on the shelves."
The Lego stores near me have a wall full of sorted brick bins in the back of the store. Give them $6 and they give you a bucket to fill up.
Or, if you don't have a lego store near you, you could always do this:
http://shop.lego.com/department.asp?d=37&t=5
The Lego stores are fantastic places, though. What other store can you go into with your child and walk out with a real quality toy for just $4 these days? They tend to have great sales, too.
You know you can actually look up the prices of the Xeon 5100 series and the Opterons. The Xeon is very competetive, if not cheaper than AMD's offerings.
What makes you think that AMD's 65nm chips will be available in volume from day 1?
Here is a review: Anand Tech
They are very much in sight.
What is with all the misinformation about Intel?
A search for EM64T on NewEgg
The search returned 34 Intel processors with EM64T.
Even some of the Celerons have EM64T.
$119 Pentium D 805 at NewEgg
Description:
Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 533MHz FSB 2 x 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Dual Core,EM64T Processor - Retail
Intel has had EMT64 in their Pentium 4 and Pentium D lineup for ages. Where have you been?
Huh? Intel's Pentium D 805 is a dual core 2.66GHz processor that supports 64-bit that is going to be cut to just $93 in another month. Right now, it is $119.
AMD's cheapest dual core is the Athlon 64 3800+ for $297 at NewEgg right now.
Did you not know that Intel added 64-bit support to the Pentium lineup a while back?