In Pictures: New Looks in Portable Hard Drives (PC World)

In Pictures: New Looks in Portable Hard Drives (PC World)
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Hitachi Breaks Through Terabyte Barrier (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Corporations and consumers who crave more storage on their PCs can rest assured that hard drive makers are working to push well beyond the terabyte barrier. Hitachi claims it has developed the world's smallest read-head technology, and expects its breakthrough to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes for desktop hard drives and one terabyte for notebook drives.

Intel Readies CPU for Cheap Laptops (PC World)
PC World - Intel Corp. plans to unveil a new microprocessor for the One Laptop Per Child notebook and other ultra-low cost laptop PCs at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai next April, an executive said Monday.

Gateway Aims Home Desktop at Multimedia Niche (PC World)
PC World - Gateway Inc. Thursday launched quad-core desktop and notebook computers loaded with entertainment features designed to appeal to multimedia enthusiasts.

Coming Soon: Sub-$1000 HD DVD Notebook (PC World)
PC World - Toshiba tells its HD DVD strategy, from technology advances to price drops.