Dell will penetrate on a low-cost laptops market

After that OLPC initiative was taken over by other companies as Asus, Intel, Elonex it is time for Dell to enter the low-cost laptops market.

Although the sources do not give information like what will be the name, technical qualities, operating system, the date, when it will be available and the price either, we can surely say that on this segment of market will appear a new competitor for the already existing models.


At the end of the sixth edition of D: All Thinks Digital conference, Michael Dell showed to the Brian Lam from the Gizmodo a model of a laptop with law dimensions, which will be as he said, launched very soon by his company. But he did not offer any details. Brian hopes that in the interior mini laptop is based on the Atom platform and about the exterior he remembered a number of the equipments 3 USB 2.0 ports, a card reader, a VGA port, Ethernet and of course red color.

Knowing the quality of Dell products we have to wait a really good laptop. It is remaining only to know the price.

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Flash Drive - Cigarette lighter

Nowadays Flash Drive is a well-known thing, used nearly by everybody. It became a really good helper and replaces our habitual discs and even has diskettes from the market. It is convenient in use and portable that's why Flash Drive occupies an important part in our daily activity. Now a lot of different flashes are devised and it's so easy to get lost in their diversity. A new gadget represents one of these variants.

This is a usual Flash Drive with a lighter built in or it's possible to say that it is a lighter with a Flash Drive built in. This gadget represents special choice for smokers of course. This is comfortable thing, because it is not necessary to bring lighter and Flash Drive separately, all is combined together. One of the biggest advantages of this gadget is that Flash Drive could be pulled out. It wouldn’t prevent using lighter. Its memory size is 4 GB. It's made in Zippo style and is decorated with a cowboy's symbol - the cow skull.


The price or such invention is 26.65 USD. To my mind it's quite a good gadget. However, it's possible to make an inscription on the gadget's body "Smoking is harmful for your health". I think that all the inventions should to bring any harm to us, but to carry out useful functions.

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Maximum efficiency at the minimum dimensions – from the VIA

Via Technologies launched EPIA PX5000EG Pico-ITX: x86 processor, with the smallest energy consumption on the smallest base plaque in the world (10 x 7,2 cm).

VIA Eden ULV processor has a frequency of 500 MHz and maximum energy consumption of 1 watt (in stand-by energy consumption is only 0,1 watt), being considered the most efficient processor in the world (from the viewpoint of energy consumption in the same category). VIA EPIA PX5000EG plaque is based on the other company success, VIA EPIA PX10000 Pico-ITX, which allows the whole x86 performance in an extremely low space, using innovative technologies for energy efficiency and warmth dissipation.


VIA EPIA PX5000EG supports up to 1 GB of DDR2 memory, has a LVDS/DVI connector, VGA, integrated sound plaque: sound on 5.1 channels, line-out, line-in, mic-in, S/PDIF-in connectors, integrated Fast Ethernet 100/10 network plaque, IDE and SATA support, 6 USB 2.0 ports and one COM port. It also has an integrated video VIA UniChrome Pro II IGP 3D/2D plaque with a MPEG 2 / 4 and WMV9 decoder, PS/2 connectors for keyboard and mouse, one multimedia connector with an extern TV-out connector, one Pico-ITX for electric energy supplying and not only.

The complet system stability and impressive performance are reached due to the architecture and technologies that VIA Eden ULV processor includes.

Unfortunately, the prize was not announced, it is only available by contacting company selling representations.

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