bit-tech News: bit-tech's Hardware Buyers Guide for January 2009

news · January 5, 2009

Hi all,

We have just published our updated *Hardware Buyers Guide for January

2009*. If you could post a link on your site that would be very much

appreciated.

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*/Happy New Year! Yes it's 2009, and while we might bemoan the continued

lack of flying cars or private robot slaves we were promised in our

youth, the march of technology does continue onwards with the Consumer

Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas ready to kick off later this week

showcasing all the fancy kit we'll likely be drooling over this year.

We've already had a sneaky peek at one of the show's likely unveilings -

the Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 - so stay tuned to bit-tech over the coming

days for continued updates from our man in Las Vegas.

Sadly though, the growing world wide economic downturn is continuing to

have negative effects on component pricing here in the UK as the pound

continues to slide against both the Dollar and Euro. While component

prices in the USA and Europe are for the most part going down to

encourage sales, prices here in Blighty have been rising over the last

few months as importers find the pound doesn't stretch so far any more.

This can be enormously frustrating, as those who might have put off

building a new system until the new year will now be faced with a

notably increased price tag for the exact same components, while the

exact same system has in fact become cheaper in the USA!/

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*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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