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ASUS has finally - finally! - confirmed the existence of the Eee Box.

The company claims its desktop will be just 1 litre in volume, a rather odd measurement for a computer, but Asus are being rather vague on the exact dimensions of the upcoming hardware. The only details suggest that it will be as “slim as a paperback novel”. The desktop version of the Eee PC will be available in August, this summer and Asus will announce the price very soon.

Eee Box will run Windows XP Home on Intel’s Atom N270 processor at 1.6GHz, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 80GB hard drive, Gigabit Ethernet connection and 802.11n Wi-Fi.

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Nvidia rolled out its next-generation 200-series GPUs, the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280 today.

You’ll notice NVIDIA has a new naming convention for these cards.  GeForce GTX denotes the current high end, with the model number afterward its performance level in relation to other cards in the same family.

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Dell enter a mini laptop market, the upcoming Dell mini laptop will be Dell “E” and “E” Slim.

Dell’s breaking the Dell E into two device types, a 8.9-inch model clearly meant to take on the Eee 900, and the 12.1-inch “E Slim” which actually looks positioned to take on the MacBook Air and X300, at a mere 0.8-inches thick, though perhaps in a lower-end capacity.

• E Classic model for super low-end use
• E Video and E Video+ for more RAM, larger flash storage, webcams and Bluetooth
• E Slim come with WiMAX

OS? According to the close source, Dell “E” series will be runing on both Windows XP and Linux.

Dell is expected to offer accessories, such as a USB TV dongle, carry case, second battery, an auto/air adapter, Bluetooth accessories, and external HDD or DVD drive options.

Price? Dell “E” estimated start at $299.

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Attention gamer:

NVIDIA’s GeForce 9 Series was first introduced in February of this year by way of the 9600 GT launch. Admittedly, we thought it was interesting to see a new GeForce series launch, not with the flagship card, but rather with a new midrange offering. It makes perfect sense, though, considering that more people can afford midrange cards than can afford high-end, flagship cards. Since this launch, NVIDIA has added to the GeForce 9 Series by introducing the dual-GPU GeForce 9800 GX2 and the GeForce 9800 GTX. So far, the GeForce 9 Series seems to be another successful line from the NVIDIA camp.

In this article, we are going to expand our coverage of the GeForce 9600 GT by doing another round-up of three retail cards: the PNY Verto 9600 GT, the MSI N9600GT OC, and the ASUS EN9600GT SILENT. As you might expect, all three of these cards sport 512MB of GDDR3 and a 256-bit memory interface. What you may not expect is how different these three cards actually are. Two feature custom coolers, one of which is passive, making it silent. Because of these custom coolers, these two cards are dual-slot solutions while the third uses the single-slot reference cooler. Only one of them ships with a factory overclock while the other two utilize NVIDIA’s reference clocks. We are eager to see how these three cards compare when it comes to performance, noise and heat. Let’s jump right in and take a look at the specifications of all three side-by-side.

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HP have announced their latest touchscreen desktop computer, the TouchSmart PC, with a 22-inch widescreen display, DVD burner and optional TV tuner. Specs include Intels Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M GS HD graphics card, ATSC Tuner, Bluetooth 2.0, Firewire, wireless networking and memory card slots, together with a webcam and microphone.

The screen of the Touchsmart isn’t touch sensitive; it’s actually a beam of light in front of the screen that recognizes where your finger is when you break the plane of the light beam. The interface, which is all developed within Vista, can be customized in many ways, allowing you to pick from a variety of content to be displayed on the home screen. There’s also a finger painting app, photo browsing and editing app, music player, movie player, RSS aggregator and calendar.

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