A few months ago, we told you about the $3,000+ radio from Meridian named the F80. One of the features the F80 was missing was an iPod dock. Well, they’re going to fix that problem this August with a $400 iPod dock named the i80. Most audiophiles snub the iPod since it plays compressed audio, […]

A few months ago, we told you about the $3,000+ radio from Meridian named the F80. One of the features the F80 was missing was an iPod dock. Well, they are going to mend that problem this August with a $400 iPod dock named the i80.

Most audiophiles snub the iPod since it plays compressed audio, but Meridian says they can fix that. They say the i80 can process the files from the iPod to reveal more of the recording. This supposedly helps your music sound better.

The i80 will allow you to control the iPod with your F80’s remote or front panel buttons. It will also pull song information and display it on its own OLED screen. Although this $400 dock has a few neat features, I don’t think any of them justify the price.

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Pretty soon both of these suckers are going to bottom out, and since there’s really no other players in the consumer video card game, at least one of them is going to bounce back. NVIDIA is at around $11, down from almost $25 a couple months ago, and AMD has been steadily declining for a […]

Pretty soon both of these suckers are going to bottom out, and since there’s really no other players in the consumer video card game, at least one of them is going to bounce back. NVIDIA is at around $11, down from almost $25 a couple months ago, and AMD has been steadily declining for a long time and is on its way to becoming a penny stock. Have a tiny extra cash? There’s nowhere to go but up with these poor guys.

I’d bet on NVIDIA mainly because AMD is also squaring off against Intel, and that David/Goliath thing doesn’t always work out the way you want it to. They do however have NVIDIA on the run with the new Radeon 4870s, so the battle is far from over. [inspired by NVNews.net and Stockpickr]

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Ah rumors. Microsoft might or might not have had a meeting this week about making (or not) a Zune phone. True or not, either way the idea is interesting for sure. What if Microsoft released a 3G phone to directly compete with the iPhone? According to Michael Gartenberg the prospect is not likely. Citing that Windows Mobile […]

Ah rumors. Microsoft might or may not have had a meeting this week about making (or not) a Zune phone. True or not, either way the idea is interesting for sure. What if Microsoft released a 3G phone to directly compete with the iPhone?

According to Michael Gartenberg the prospect isn’t likely.

Citing that Windows Mobile is a core platform and OS, he points out that by releasing a phone, Microsoft would be in direct competition with other makers who had licensed the platform. Currently there are over 20 million WinMo licenses out there.

He goes on to state that the idea is not out of reach, just highly unlikely. Rather, he sees it the other way around with mobile Zune functions ending up in the Windows Mobile platform.

Via [crunchgear]

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