Neowin News Feed for: Cheaper

Walmart introduces cheaper subscription service to rival Amazon Prime

Usman Khan Lodhi — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:30:01 +0000

The retail giant will launch Walmart+ on September 15. It costs $98 a year compared to $119 for Amazon Prime, though the latter offers a wider range of benefits, including Prime Video, and more. Read more...

EE introduces cheaper 4G plans, launches its own £99.99 handset [Update]

Andy Weir — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:23:54 +0000

EE has launched its first own-brand handset - the £99.99 Kestrel, which includes support for the carrier's 4G LTE network - as it introduces cheaper price plans, now from as little as £13.99 a month. Read more...

Microsoft puts an end to cheap Xbox One rumors

Shreyas Gandhe — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 23:29:27 +0000

Microsoft exec Aaron Greenberg has denied recently reported rumors of a cheaper disc-less, connected Xbox One launching in the latter part of this year, through his Twitter account in reply to a user. Read more...

Apple offers up to $100 off products through "secret" eBay store

Max Slater-Robins — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:03:01 +0000

A new, and unclaimed, eBay outlet appears to be run by Apple and offers refurbished products at large discounts to Apple's official refurbished stores, hinting at a new path for the company. Read more...

Lenovo's IdeaPad Yoga 11 on sale early, cheaper, for now

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:28:34 +0000

Lenovo's Windows 8 and RT Yoga devices are still to be released. But the early arrival of the Yoga 11 running Windows RT, at a lesser price point, might give some competition to Microsoft's Surface. Read more...

Apple to release $799 MacBook Air later this year?

Anthony Tosie — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:47:34 +0000

Apple may be planning to release a cheaper version of its MacBook Air, with a report suggesting that the new lower-cost notebook could be on track for a launch in Q3 2012. Read more...

Zune 3.1 released, Zune now cheaper than iPod

Tom Warren — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:24:11 +0000

Microsoft has released firmware version 3.1 for all models of their Zune MP3 players. The 3.1 update adds three new games: Checkers, Sudoku and Space Battle. A new multi player mode for the existing Texas... Read more...

Microsoft Plans to Roll Out Cheaper Xbox in Japan

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:06:01 +0000

Although the Xbox 360 has been, in many regards, a success for Microsoft, Japan has yet to embrace the console like the rest of the world, preferring instead Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation 3. Tokyo-based... Read more...

Rock Band DLC pricing revealed, actually cheaper than GH3

Todd Tanner — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:17:15 +0000

Harmonix revealed that instead of charging 500 Microsoft Points ($6.25) for a three song pack as Activision does with Guitar Hero III, they would be releasing the packs for 440 Microsoft Points ($5.49) with --... Read more...

Cheaper Xbox 360 Jasper Expected after Falcon, August 2008

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:36:21 +0000

On his blog, Dean Takahashi is found talking about Jasper, the code name for the next motherboard for the Xbox 360 that is slated for August 2008. He criticizes Microsoft's speed in shrinking the size... Read more...

Sony unveils cheaper PS3 and slashes pricing on all (Non US)

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:23:40 +0000

A cut price PlayStation 3 (PS3) with a smaller hard drive and no backwards compatibility with previous consoles goes on sale later this month. The Â£299 PS3 has a 40-gigabyte hard disk and will be... Read more...

Amazon's MP3 store has DRM-free music, cheaper than iTunes

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:21:58 +0000

Amazon has launched a public beta of its long-anticipated digital music download store, offering more than 2 million songs as MP3 files (a third of iTunes' current library). Most tracks are variable bit rate 256kbps... Read more...

Dell profit up 46 percent due to cheaper components

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:12:12 +0000

Just two weeks after revealing that some employees had falsified corporate revenue to meet earnings targets, Dell reported a profit of $733 million for its fiscal 2008 second quarter, up 46 percent from its mark... Read more...

Cheaper Blu-ray Player Sparks Speculation of PS3 Price Cuts

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:39:22 +0000

These days, literally the smallest whisper about falling costs of blue-violet laser diodes will set off speculation about a PlayStation 3 price drop. Yesterday, Sony announced that it would be shipping its second-generation Blu-ray Disc... Read more...

Samsung considers cheaper version of Q1 Ultra

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:30:46 +0000

Samsung Electronics may produce a cheaper version of its new Q1 Ultra ultra-mobile PC in a bid to boost sales, a senior company executive said Thursday. "In order to have more users who can afford... Read more...

Dell's AMD boxes vastly cheaper than Intel

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:12:29 +0000

How cheap are they? How about the cheapest AMD-based Dimension E521 for less than half of the cheapest Core 2 Duo-based system. How about almost half of the cheapest Pentium D-based system? If you hunt... Read more...

AMD to launch a cheaper Athlon 64 X2

Steven Parker — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:02:28 +0000

Bit-tech are reporting that they have learned that AMD are close to shipping a more affordable addition to its superb Athlon 64 X2 architecture. After the initial launch, which was out of... Read more...

Mac on Wintel Will Mean Cheaper Laptops

Steven Parker — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 12:33:20 +0000

Bloomberg is the latest of the news outlets to jump on the latest as yet unconfirmed news that Apple will move to the x86 architecture, according to Jean-Louis Gassee who oversaw Apple's products and research-and-development... Read more...

PS3 will be cheaper to start developing for than PS2

Thu, 19 May 2005 15:07:08 +0000

Speaking in an exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz, SCEE development chief Phil Harrison has said that the PS3 will be cheaper to develop for than the PS2 was initially, with the system's power being much easier... Read more...

Cheaper broadband is critical for next-gen consoles

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:25:06 +0000

Is your slow internet connection preventing next-generation consoles from reaching their full potential? According to Kaz Hirai Sony Computer Entertainment America president it is. He feels that it's necessary that broadband needs to... Read more...

Nokia's New N-Gage May Sell Cheaper Than Announced

Wed, 26 May 2004 19:48:31 +0000

The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia started shipping its revamped N-Gage gaming phone on Wednesday, and said due to operator subsidies it could sell cheaper than previously flagged. Nokia said the phone could... Read more...

Push for cheaper Microsoft deals now

Tom Warren — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:20:32 +0000

Licensing discounts on the cards as Redmond shows signs of cracking. Microsoft customers could win big discounts as the software giant comes under increasing pressure to reduce licensing costs or lose deals... Read more...

MPs' bid for cheaper iPod batteries

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:17:37 +0000

Concern over the lifespan of the iPod's rechargeable battery has reached the House of Commons, with 11 MPs putting their names to a motion calling for Apple to ensure that replacement batteries are plentiful in... Read more...

Apple to use cheaper components in new iMacs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:18:55 +0000

TAIWANESE WIRE Digitimes is reporting today that Apple will introduce mag-alloy cases for desktop iMacs in the first quarter of 2004. And, claims the wire, it will also throw a huge amount of plastic parts... Read more...

Study Finds Windows Cheaper Than Linux

Marcel Klum — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:17:43 +0000

A Microsoft-sponsored white paper from research group IDC, which compares the total cost of ownership of Microsoft's Windows 2000 and Linux server environments across five enterprise computing workload situations at 104 companies, found that the... Read more...

Action for cheaper videogames

Marcel Klum — Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:10:45 +0000

Thanks Josh for this one. "It's hardly a controversial statement, is it? Nobody likes paying Â£40-Â£45 (50-60 Euros) for a new videogame, especially when it only cost 40p to make. And the truth... Read more...

CD-R Gets Cheaper

Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:13:20 +0000

In the second quarter of 2001, renewed capacity expansion kept supply above demand, and CD-R discs fell to US$0.14 a unit. Ritek did go back up to US$0.22-0.24, but the recent increase in demand has... Read more...

Cheaper P4 systems hit markets

Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:36:46 +0000

The low-priced Pentium 4 desktop has arrived. As expected, PC makers on Monday launched a bevy of new computers that combine Pentium 4 processors with standard memory. These machines don't perform as well... Read more...

New cheaper Pentium 4 systems on the horizon

Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:31:01 +0000

PC manufacturers will push the Pentium 4 toward wide circulation on Monday with new computers that for the first time wed the chip with standard memory, rather than Rambus memory. Virtually every... Read more...