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The new Green PC out by Medion, the Medion Akoya Nettop-PC E2010D with the 18.5 inch LCD TFT Monitor E53002D included, is going to hit the shelves in Australia on Thursday 25th of June 2009.

The green beast, although I wouldn’t say very powerful since it only has an Intel® Atom™ 230 processor 1.6 GHz, 512 KB Cache, 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM, and 160 GB hard disk is for sale for $699AUD with a possible 50% Education Tax Refund, making the product around $350. For more information about the tax refund, you can click here.

The Nettop PC uses 50% less power consumption then a normal desktop PC as it only uses a maximum of 65 watts. Although I’d love to get my hands on this PC, I don’t see it fitting my needs.  The only people I see buying this product is people who don’t like laptops and regularly move to different places requiring a desktop PC.

If you love your stylish desktop PC’s and want to have a lot of space on your desk, this is a PC for you, but if you want performance and portability, you can find yourself a nice laptop. Although it will cost a bit more money, it will better suit your needs.

I don’t think that this computer will be successful in the market, but if you like a green, stylish, desktop PC, this is the one for you.

To see more specs, and photo’s, have a look after the break.

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If you have a lot of software installed, it is hard to keep them all up-to-date; downloading, re-downloading – it takes time.

But RadarSync does that all for you.

Just do a scan of your computer to find all the software that needs updating. Their list of supported software is huge catering for over 2500 programs.

RadarSync also allows you to save your favourite online in a software pack, and you might find software that you have never heard of before and didn’t know how you existed without it.

We have all head of sleepwalking before, and maybe sleep eating, but the new craze is sleep emailing. Now a women who has taking a bit to many pills, got up one night, and sent an email off to her friend while she was asleep.

Saying something you don’t remember to someone over the Internet can be somewhat embarrassing; just like going to the toilet when your asleep but not actually physically going anywhere.

So before you get into the habit of getting out of bed unconsciously, it may be a good idea unplug the computer before you go to bed. And by doing so, you will also save some electricity while your at it.

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Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Computer Mouse, happy birthday to you.

It the computer mouse’s 40th Birthday, but the question is, should it retire? With technology growing and developing, we are already are seeing the mouse being phased out of existence. With touch pads on laptops, touch screens on iPhones and the new Windows 7, motion sensors on Wii’s, mouse’s aren’t being used with new technology. So could this be the end of the mouse? We don’t think so.

This technology is only new and is still being implemented into new devices, so we hope the mouse will be around until it is at lease 50 years old or more. The mouse are still used heavily on most computers nowadays, so its still has a few more years to live. But with laptops become more and  more popular, touch pads may wipe out the mouse. But how will gamers play computer games? It is easier on a mouse then a touch screen.

Lucky for you mouse, you still have more years to live.

Intel is changing the way we use the phrase “Super Computer” Before, a “Super computer” was a computer that is at the front line of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. But now, Intel’s new working development processing chip “Intel Smart” will revolutionise how we use computers today.

Intel’s new “Intel Smart” chip combines 4 current quad core, 3GHz processors into one small chip. This chip is a huge leap ahead is it is 4 times as powerful as today’s top processor on the market.

The most amazing part of the “Intel Smart” chip is that it costs roughly the same amount of money that the current quad core chips cost. So you get 4 times the amount of processor power for the same cost.

The “Intel Smart” chip is due to release around April 2009.

Apple Computers has just released details of the worlds smallest
computer. It comfortable fits in a standard A4 envelop. With a price of
$1799US the 13.3 inch Led-Backlit widscreen computer features a massive
2GB of memory, 80GB 1.8inch HDD and the choice of 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz
Intel Core 2 Due processor with 4MB L2 Cache will do the job for almost
anything.

The Apple MacBook Air features 802.11n Wi-Fi includes fast speeds of
around 300mbits, 5 hours wireless productivity, built in iSight camera,
SD card and much more.

Read more at apples website
http://www.apple.com/macbookair