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A new desktop computers will be hitting the shelves today as the Dell Studio Hybrid is unleashed onto the market to compete with the likes of the Asus Eee Box for sleek, space-saving mini machines for the modern home.

Dell claims that it consumes 71% less energy than a typical mini-tower and is Energy Star 4.0 Certified.

Physically, it is very small: 7.08”(h) x 8.26”(d) x 2.75”(w), which is comparable to an external drive – cool huh? Official Specifications:

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GOOGLE has detected more than a trillion unique URLs on the Web according to the outfit’s bog site. This number won’t stop there as they are growing at a steady rate of several billion pages per day. According to Google, they do not index every individual page out of the trillion figure, since “many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content.” said Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj, software engineers in Google’s Web Search Infrastructure Team.

How about Yahoo, Microsoft or ask.com? Are they going to fight back with the figure?

I would say that blogs have played a major role in hitting the one trillion mark. Well, what’s next after a trillion?
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Are you plan to buy any laptop recently? Probably you should look at this, a laptop sell for $130 only.

A company is now selling what it calls the “world’s cheapest laptop,” which at $130, is not a bad deal if you can bear some hardware limitations.

The Impulse NPX-9000 laptop has a 7-inch screen and comes with the Linux OS. It has a 400MHz processor, 128M bytes of RAM, 1G byte of flash storage and an optional wireless networking dongle. It includes office productivity software, a Web browser and multimedia software.

There’s a caveat though — it has to bought in bulk, in units of 100. The laptop is available on Alibaba.com through the online store of Taiwanese company Carapelli Ltd.

The cheapest laptop to date was known to be One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop, available at $188 for a limited time late last year. While a technological landmark, it had some hardware limitations like a slow processor and limited graphics capabilities.

The laptop hints towards a trend of lowering PC prices. Last week, a company called CherryPal introduced a $249 mini-desktop, also running a 400MHz processor, with 256M bytes of RAM and 4G bytes of internal flash storage.

In a recent interview with the IDG News Service, former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen said she would bring out a $75 laptop by 2010. Now running her own company, Pixel Qi, she cited the falling prices of RAM and components as a way to bring down laptop prices.
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Asus has announced availability of its Eee PC 1000, an addition to its popular range of ultra-small laptops that offers a slightly larger screen and keyboard than earlier models, plus a hard drive for Windows users.

Unveiled in June, the Eee PC 1000 has a 10in 1024 x 600 display and is based on Intel’s Atom processor combined with 1GB memory.

Earlier models had an 8.9in screen or smaller, and were based on Celeron processor technology.

The Eee PC 1000 ships in two versions; a Linux-based model has a 40GB Flash solid state disk (SSD) for storage and costs £369, while the Eee PC 1000H runs Windows XP from an 80GB hard drive and costs £349.
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Great news! For anyone who planning to buy any Intel processor, I guess this is the best time.

Here are the price cuts and please note that those are official Intel prices, actual prices will eventually reach those prices than they will be lower than that.

Q6600 From $224 to $193, which is a 13.84% cut.
E8500 From $266 to $183, which is a 31.20% cut
E8400 From $183 to $163, which is a 10.93% cut
E7200 From $133 to $113, which is a 15.04% cut

Q9650, at 3.00Ghz, 12MB cache, 1333Mhz FSB at $530
Q9400, at 2.66Ghz, 6MB cache, 1333Mhz FSB at $266.
E8600, at 3.33Ghz, 6MB cache, 1333Mhz FSB at $266
E7300, at 2.66Ghz, 3MB cache, 800Mhz FSB at 133$

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