Many Wii hopefuls were laden with sadness last Friday when, after an interview with Nintendo’s U.S. marketing chief George Harrison, it appears as though the price isn’t going anywhere in the foreseeable future. Harrison mentioned the strong success of the Nintendo Wii thus far and claimed that the price will not drop.

The Wii has been selling like crazy; why should they lower the price?

“You can’t find one,” Michael Gartenberg, a JupiterResearch analyst, told TechNewsWorld. “At this point, Nintendo could probably be raising prices, not dropping them, and they would be doing OK.” So sorry, Wii price drop hopefuls, it’s not happening at least until after Christmas.

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Hitachi has done it again, this time they are announcing up to 4 TERABYTE (that’s right I said TERABTYE) Hard Drives. The 4 terabytes only applies to desktop computers though as laptop Hard Drives manufactured by them will have a maximum of 1 terabyte . You will not be able to scoop these up right away as Hitachi is claiming a 2011 release for these. Shrinking down a Hard Drive read write head to 2,000 times smaller then the size of a hair just wasn’t enough for you was it Hitachi? So for those of you running a……..server out of your living room then I guess these would be good for you.

This product has been tracked by many many drooling gadget hounds since August but has taken until now for Asus to officially acknowledge the product and announce it. For those of you unaware this new laptop from asus will cost around $200 and will feature “802.11b/g WiFi, Ethernet and a modem for connectivity, along with a webcam, 512MB of RAM and a 4, 8 or 16GB flash drive for speedy, reliable storage.” Clearly this new PC from Asus isn’t top of the line but for $200 US you just cannot beat it. Love it or hate it……it’s coming. You can expect to see this computer on sale in 2-3 weeks. The official product page can be found here.

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It appears as though the team at Driven Design has conjured up another delicious hack for your 5th Gen Video iPod. This hack is a direct firmware modification that can certainly end in a shiny black (or white) brick. This hack is almost a direct copy of the standard and legitimate iPod Classic firmware. It brings over the half and half screen design the new now playing screen among many other features that the iPod Classic firmware has, unfortunately these features do not include cover flow or a few of the other features. These may or may not be in the works. You can get the information and download links here. Enjoy!

*Note* I am not responsible for any type of carelessness or issues with your iPod. I am simply delivering the news to you.

In a most strategic move by Apple Steve Jobs has announced plans to drop the price of the new(ish) DRM free and higher bit rate tracks from $1.30 down to .99c. Steve Jobs claims, “It’s been very popular with our customers, and we’re making it even more affordable.” while this is true the reality is most likely that he is feeling the burn from such sites as Amazon.com. Either way it’s great for us consumers. This also means that non DRM tracks are now the same price as DRM’ed tracks. Could this be that Apple is completely doing away with DRM tracks? Let’s wait and see, for now enjoy the new price

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