Charles Moore

Charles Moore (1951-2018) was a well known freelance writer who lived in Nova Scotia, Canada who wrote about the Mac for over 20 years — with a special emphasis on mobile computing from the vintage PowerBook to the current generation of the MacBook and iPad — and his column, “The ‘Book Mystique,” had been a weekly feature on MacPrices since 2011 until his untimely passing in 2018 due to health complications.

HDD Prices For OEM Market To Increase 5-10% in 2Q ’11

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Digitimes’ Erica Yen and Steve Shen report that due to a shortage of controller chips for motors used in hard disk drives due to the manifold disasters in Japan, specifically damage to the three Japanese wafer plants of Texas Instruments, prices of HDDs in the OEM market are likely to increase by 5-10% in the second quarter. Prices in the channel rose 10-15% recently. The […]