Google just fired off a big shot in the ongoing battle for cloud storage supremacy, announcing dramatic price cuts for their paid storage service.
According to the Google Drive Blog, 100GB of Google Drive storage used to cost $4.99/month. Now it’s down to $1.99. The 1TB plan dropped from $49.99/month to a relatively measly $9.99 per month. On the high end, you can snag a 10TB for $99.99/month. For users who need more than that like businesses, Google says that they would be happy to price out a rate for more storage. Google will continue to offer users a free 15GB baseline account. Existing users with paid accounts will automatically benefit from the new, lower prices.
Not only do the new prices make Google Drive more competitive, at this point, they blow Dropbox’s rates right out of the water. Dropbox charges $9.99/month for 100GB and $15/month per user for a bottomless business account. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s OneDrive offerings for personal use max at out at 100GB for $50 a year, and 200GB for $100 annually.
While these new prices make Google Drive a more appealing option, the question remains; will these new prices be low enough to entice users into paying for cloud storage in the first place? We’re guessing that Google Drive’s free 15GB plan is more than enough for a big chunk of the service’s users.
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The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.