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• THG Trendwatch #4: GByte USB sticks arriving in the mainstream
  Thursday 15 September 2005 – 05:51
  Portable USB storage for the keychain is no luxury anymore, but often a handy tool that helps to move large data amounts from A to B. And according to PriceGrabber.com's Market Reporter, Flash memory reached a size-price ratio that makes sense for most consumers - the mainstream market. We had a closer look at where you can find the most bang for your buck.
• THG Trendwatch #2: GeForce 7 balances desktop graphics processor market
  Wednesday 24 August 2005 – 11:50
  In previous years, no other segment of the computer component manufacturing industry has seen such a dramatic level of price gouging as the graphics cards business. In late 2004, paper launches, low production yields, and artificially inflated demand pushed street prices for Nvidia's 6-series and ATI's X800 close to the unprecedented $1000 mark. Promising a bit more restraint in its pricing policy, Nvidia launched the GeForce 7 in volume, bringing graphics card pricing back to a more reasonable level.
• THG Trendwatch #3: Prices for 17" LCDs on the increase
  Wednesday 31 August 2005 – 08:10
  Shortages in the mainstream LCD market cause prices for 17" screens to stabilize and in most cases to increase. While the current trend is expected to be short term only, consumers on the hunt for the best value in a computer monitor may want to look at 20" models.
• THG Trendwatch: Dual-core processor prices plunge
  Wednesday 17 August 2005 – 04:54
  Courtesy of tgstores and PriceGrabber.com we bring you a new weekly analysis that examines availability and pricing trends of specific product segments in the etail market. In this first edition, we take a closer look at dual-core processors from AMD and Intel: The Athlon X2 and Pentium D are just three months into their life cycle, but pricing of some variants already has dropped up to 35 percent below their introduction level.