Friday Discounts Go Live at Apple

Apple’s online store is back up featuring Black Friday discounts. The Mac maker not only slashed prices for its computers, iPods, and Apple TV, but also for creative tools, cases and bags, software, speakers, iPhone accessories, headphones, chargers, and more.

As soon as Apple’s store was back online, the first thing we could spot was the 21.5-inch iMac now selling for $1,098.00. The same $101 discount applies for the 27-inch configurations. Customers can also save $101 on Apple’s newest MacBook Pro 13-inch (from $1,098), as well as on 15-inch and 17-inch models.

Moving on to the iPods, a fifth-gen nano can now be ordered online for $138 (save $11) for the 8GB version, and $168 for the 16GB SKU. iPod touch models available in 8GB, 32GB, and 64GB form will now set you back just $178, $268, or $358, depending on the storage included with your choice. Black Friday now allows customers to save as much as $41 on an iPod touch.

An Apple TV with 160GB of storage is now $208.00 (was $229), while AirPort Express base stations with 802.11n and AirTunes go for $88 at Apple’s online store. The Multi-Touch-capable Magic Mouse retails for $69 since it was introduced earlier this month. Today, it’s just 5 bucks cheaper - $64. Not very impressive, may we add. Other accessories, including Time Capsules, Wireless keyboards and Apple In-Ear Headphones can also be acquired at a discount. Third-party items sell for some pretty good prices. A Sanyo Dual Camera Xacti VPC-FH1ABK is now $71 cheaper than before.

If you’ve been saving to buy a Mac, iPod, accessories, or just wanted to put some Apple goodness under the tree this year, today is probably the best time you could shop. So, go ahead and browse around the store. There’s an endless amount of options to be had. Knowing Apple, these are the best prices you’ll be getting for quite a while, so don’t waste any time.

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Buffalo Blu-ray burner USB 3.0

Buffalo unveiled its first USB 3.0 devices. To start this the drive HXU3 DriveStation HD-presentations that comes in 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2TB with speeds up to 130MB per second.

In theory the new standard allows transfer rates up to 4.8 gigabits per second - about 625MB/segundo - but so far the USB 3.0 storage devices in practice to approach this theoretical maximum. However, compared to USB 2.0 devices Buffalo's new drive offers a significant performance improvement. The HD-HXU3 comes with the backup application for Windows or Mac Memeo AutoBackup and its price is 199.99 USD, 249.99 USD and 399.99 USD depending upon capacity.

In addition to this disc, the company has unveiled what they call the Blu-ray burner market faster. This unit 12x USB 3.0 should burn a Blu-ray to 250GB in 11 minutes. The unit in question also records LTH Blu-ray at 6x, BD-RE rewritable discs at 2x, and 16x DVD whether they are single layer and 8x when two.

The DriveStation HD-HXU3 already available but Buffalo plans to put in the new burner Blu-ray X1216U3 BR-market end of December - first in Japan at a price of about 451USD. The company also supplied with these products a PCI USB 3.0 two ports for data subjects to include new standard in their machines if they do not.

MSI Wind U230: Another AMD Dual Ultrafine heart

MSI announced the Wind U230, a new ultra thin laptop in the footsteps of X-Slim X430. This computer is home to actually turn the second generation platform for low power AMD. Focusing on a screen backlight LED 12.1-inch WXGA display a definition, it weighs 1.3 kilograms with its 3-cell battery. Thanks to technology home 'eco engine ", the manufacturer claims a self-doubled compared to a conventional laptop 12 inches, but go into more detail.

It therefore contains a dual processor Low Voltage heart Neo AMD Athlon X2 1.6 GHz, a chip ATI Radeon HD 3200, 4GB of RAM and a hard disk from 160 to 320 GB Among the accessories and connections, we found a webcam of 1.3 million pixels, a reader SD memory card, Gigabit Ethernet and Wi-Fi N.

The MSI Wind U230 will be delivered in Windows 7 Home Premium on a date and price unknown.