Western Digital reveals new disks based on 320GB-per-platter technology. That is the same areal density seen recently in 160 GB-per-platter 2.5-inch Scorpio drives that topped out with total 320GB of storage due to the size constraints. Now 3.5-inch drives have more room go grow and seems that Western Digital seems to be starting things slowly with only a single-platter 320GB drive available at the moment. Obviously upgrades of the other WD product lines will follow.

Yesterday in Davos Dell and Microsoft unveiled their partnership with Bono in AIDS-in-Africa relief project and announced new XPS m1530, m1330, and XPS One machines. Microsoft prepared special RED-themed edition of Vista Ultimate for this product line and each customer who buys it will donate $50 - $80 for relief project. All this new stuff will be available in US next week and by end of January in other parts of the world.

As Apple TV officially relieved at Macworld, competition decided to act. First move made Vudu with cutting the price for its box. Originally launched for $399, now is available for $295 with ability to rent your movies and TV shows. And if you bought your Vudu in past 30 days you can call up the company to get $100 movie credit. Things are stirring up and we shall see what will be next moves.

If you remember the news about HP’s Pavilion HDX monster laptop with 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme processor, 20.1-inch WUXGA (1,920 x 1,200) display, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS and optional HD DVD / Blu-ray drives, it is officially available right now at HP’s website. And if you plan to get it be ready to give $1,999.99 for basic configuration while HP’s “recommended configuration” is just $3,645.97 bucks.