Seagate slashed warranty periods as a way to find extra cash for new product development. However, there will be no change in the warranties for some of enterprise level drives. For more information on hardware warranties from Seagate visit Seagate Warranty and Returns

Western Digital is reducing the warranties on its Caviar Blue, Caviar Green and Scorpio Blue hard drives from three years to two, and for some desktop and laptop drives warranty slashed from 5 years to just 1 year. Western Digital is also expected to start charging for extended warranties.

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The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982. It featured a MOS Technology 6510 processor running at 1MHz, with 64kB of RAM memory and a 16-colour graphics chip. Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595.

In 1980s the world has seen personal computers coming to people's homes, and the Commodore 64 was one of them. For 3 years (1983–1986), the C64 dominated the personal computer market outselling IBM, Apple and Atari 8-bit computers. During it's lifetime, the C64 became the best selling single personal computer model ever.

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(Info and image source: Wikipedia)]]> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:11:34 +0000 http://www.dvtech.co.uk/blog/new-website/ As part of our ongoing commitment to providing the highest level of service to our customers we have upgraded our website.

In the first major re-work since 2005, we have completely changed our website improving the navigation, giving it a fresher look, and introducing new features to make the site more user-friendly. The new site also has significantly improved back-office and content management systems to ensure information on the site is always accurate and up to date.

We have changed our category structure to meet the extended range of products, including laptop spares, servers and server upgrade options and a lot more.

With the launch of the new website, we also have launched our blog where we will keep you up to date with company news, deals and promotions, and latest industry news.

The continued development of the website is an ongoing project, with further enhancements coming over next few months. As ever, we welcome your feedback and any suggestions for future improvements.