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While I think the new iPod Nano may be one of the best designed hardware products ever, I’ve never been a fan of iTunes and tend to avoid iPods as a result. Three products I’ve been testing couldn’t be more different than the iPod – or each other. These offerings all have unique advantages and disadvantages and, given that the stock market was up sharply on Monday, some of us may actually be able to afford one.
Let’s talk about putting a little non-iPod excitement in your pocket.
Archos 5 and 7
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A surge in buying by PC makers, among other issues, has supported the price rise, said Nam Hyung Kim, an analyst with iSuppli Corp.
All of this has pushed spot prices to nearly double what they were a year earlier. Prices in the spot market for a popular type of memory chip, 256-megabit double data-rate memory, jumped 10.8 percent to $6.30, according to DRAMeXchange, an online memory marketplace. A year ago, prices were $3.33, said Kim.
Read the full story at Reuters technology.
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