Samsung Electronics launched its new desktop pc ‘Magic Station MV70’ in Korea market, which runs on Intel’s 45nm Core 2 Duo CPU, code-named ‘Wolfdale’. Featuring enhanced clock speed and L2 cache memory, the 45nm CPU is also equipped with HD boasting system.

Offering 500GB SATA2 HDD, 2GB DDR2 memory and GeForce 8500GT video card, the MV 70 adopts Blu-ray optical drive for enjoying HD content. It runs on Windows Vista Home premium OS.

Suggested price is below 1,400,000(KRW).

Suddenly everyone is thinking cheap these days! Not by that sense but after the OLPC cheapo laptops, then ASUS Eee PC then we heard of Acer going make a cheap laptop too. Today Gigabyte also announced a low-cost PC which will be launched in June this year. This PC will be based on Intel platform and have a display of 7- to 9-inch. This PC will be the full in-house product of Gigabyte.

Reports say that Windows sales were up 20 percent while worldwide PC sales were up only 14 to 16 percent means people who already had computers are also buying windows (who were earlier using pirated ones). Big guys believe that it’s due to WGA and people are forced to buy original stuff. But I have a second thought, after the final release of Vista and when all the branded computer manufacturers started giving pre-installed Vista, many people switched back to XP. This can also add up to the extra 4 – 6% purchase increase which is shown in report.

GNGWC2007(Game & Game World Championship 2007) Grand Final in Korea will be held at COEX-Pacific Hall by KIPA(Korea SW Industry Promotion Agency) sponsorship on December 1st.

This event is attained wide attention from online game industry because outstanding 100 young players who survived from intense preliminary selections among 1,500,000 players from all over the world will compete for No.1 place in each divisions at GNGWC2007 Grand Final in Korea.

Specially, mgoon(http://www.mgoon.com) which is a user generated video service provider in South Korea will broadcast GNGWC2007 lively with high quality(800Kb) streaming service to all over the world for the first time.

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AMD’s offices in Austin, Texas are busy these days selecting the best box design for their Phenom series of processors. The photo you see above is one of the proposed design (not final yet) but I think this design looks quite good but something more can be done. AMD is giving box design a lot of importance as this is what people see on ads and computer hardware stores. If a better box designs increases sales even by 1% then its worth the time spent on it. In my opinion, yes the design may bring them few more buyers.

Box photo source: amdzone.com

A week ago Wal-Mart began selling a $200 computer with 1.5 GHz VIA C7 processor and 512 MB of RAM. It’s meant to be used with light weight OS like ubuntu linux etc. The system is fast for work like browsing internet, documents related work but one can’t think of doing graphics work on it. Today when people happily buying Core2Duo based PC for just any use, this $200 computer by Wal-Mart was officially sold out of their online warehouses! I just can’t think of any reason for buying this computer when you can at assemble a Pentium 4 or D based computer for very cheap and you can also later install graphic card to play heavy duty games with ease and of course run windows xp and Vista. Still interested in this computer? Look here.