To allow complete simulations, GNS3 is strongly linked with :

* Dynamips, the core program that allows Cisco IOS emulation.
* Dynagen, a text-based front-end for Dynamips.
* Pemu, a Cisco PIX firewall emulator based on Qemu.

GNS3 is an excellent complementary tool to real labs for Cisco network engineers, administrators and people wanting to pass certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIP or CCIE.

It can also be used to experiment features of Cisco IOS or to check configurations that need to be deployed later on real routers.

This project is an open source, free program that may be used on multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and MacOS X.
Features overview

* Design of high quality and complex network topologies.
* Emulation of many Cisco router platforms and PIX firewalls.
* Simulation of simple Ethernet, ATM and Frame Relay switches.
* Connection of the simulated network to the real world!
* Packet capture using Wireshark. [via Layertwo]

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The T-Mobile G1 handset will be available in the UK in time for Christmas. The first device to run the search giant’s operating system will feature a touch screen as well as a Qwerty keyboard. It will be available for free on T-Mobile tariffs of over £40 a month and includes unlimited net browsing.

Other features include a three megapixel camera, a ‘one click’ contextual search and a browser that users can zoom in on by tapping the screen. The handset will be wi-fi and 3G enabled and has built-in support for YouTube. Users will also have access the so-called Android Market, where they will be able to download a variety of applications.

The T-Mobile G1 is the first phone to use Android. Google announced its plans for the Android phone software in November 2007 with a declared aim of making it easier to get at the web while on the move. To help develop Android, Google also unveiled the Open Handset Alliance - a partnership of more than 30 firms that would work to make phone software easier to work with. The group includes operators such as Telefonica, handset makers such as HTC and Motorola as well as chip makers such as Intel and Qualcomm.

Many of the partners demonstrated early prototype Android phones at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona in mid-February. The idea behind Android is to do for phone software what the open source Linux software has done for PCs. Developers of phone software can get at most of the core elements of the Android software to help them write better applications. [BBC NEWS]

Features & Benefits
Sun xVM VirtualBox supports any operating system as a guest OS, giving you the flexibility to develop applications on your platform of choice.

Which means you can run Windows in a virtual machine on a Mac or Linux platform, or run Solaris OS and Windows applications right alongside Apple applications on your MacBook.

At a Glance
* Free and open source desktop and laptop virtualization.
* Runs multiple operating systems at the same time on the same PC.
* Enables cross-platform, multi-tier applications.
* Supports the Solaris OS, OpenSolaris, Windows, Macintosh OS X, and Linux.
* Improves efficiency with intuitive blend of platforms and applications.
* Provides remote access to guest virtual machines from anywhere.
* Supports virtual server environments.
* Protects existing hardware investments. [SUN]

QC systems send information in the form of a specially prepared stream of photons representing 0s and 1s. If anyone tries to eavesdrop, he unintentionallly alters the photons being transmitted, and the rightful recipient is able to detect the tampering. As a final layer of security, the beam of photons doesn’t encode the actual secret message, it just contains an encryption key. So if part of the key is intercepted, the sender and recipient detect the altered photons and discard that part of the key. Once they’ve transmitted enough photons, the shared key is used to encrypt the message, which can be sent over public communication lines. But the photon key has to arrive reliably at its destination.

Quantum key encryption is one promising method of securing communication, especially if it can be transmitted by satellites. Scientists at an Italian observatory this year succeeded in firing lasers at the mirror-covered Ajisai Japanese satellite, proving that a sequence of photons can travel great distances through space. The laser pulsed photons at the satellite at 17,000 times per second; a fraction bounced back to a telescope at the observatory. On Earth, the longest successful quantum encryption link has been just under 100 miles because the photons scatter as they travel through the air. To reach the satellite, the photons only had to travel through 5 miles of atmosphere during their 1000-mile journey, allowing the sequence to arrive in order.

There have been several recent breakthroughs in quantum cryptography. In August, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) took the stage at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas for a demonstration of its quantum cryptography system at the notorious Black Hat information security conference. Using a laser to send the encryption key across the room, they streamed perfectly secure live video at 300,000 bits per second—as good as YouTube. “That’s about two orders of magnitude faster than any other system for quantum key distribution,” says NIST engineer Alan Mink. At the same conference, researchers from the University of Singapore demonstrated a system using pairs of “entangled” photons. Entanglement is a mind-bending feature of quantum mechanics that can allow the physical properties of two particles to be intimately linked even if they’re separated by a great distance. This provides an ideal way for a third party—a satellite, for instance—to distribute a perfectly secure key to two parties who wish to exchange a message, no matter where they’re located. [PopularMechanics]

The entire magnet will be a combination of coil sets weighing nearly 18,000 pounds and powered by jolts from a massive 1,200-megajoules motor generator. Once activated, the new magnet should be about two million times more powerful than the average refrigerator magnet.

“The new magnet at the High Field Lab is a fantastic leap forwards in terms of our capability as a scientific community to explore materials under extreme conditions,” said Ian Fisher, a scientist at Stanford University. “In several cases one needs to go to these sorts of extremes to fundamentally understand materials” used in high-temperature superconductors and other applications, said Fisher.

The electromagnet consists of two parts. The outer section, or outsert, will be a cylinder, 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) in diameter and 1.5 meters tall, and solid except for a small hole, less than 8 inches wide, bored through the middle.

Inside that hole rests the insert, nine coils made of copper and strengthened with silver wire as thin as 100 atoms across. Together, the copper and silver create the strongest material known to man, according to Greg Boebinger, Director of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Florida, where the magnet is being built. Eventually the magnet will be placed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The pressures generated inside the insert will be equivalent to 200 sticks of dynamite going off together, or about 30 times the pressure at the bottom of the ocean. Very few things can survive those kinds of forces for long — including the new magnet. The scientists expect each $20,000 insert to survive about 100 pulses. The $8 million outsert should last about 10,000 pulses. Each time the magnet pulses it bends the copper and silver wires, creating tiny cracks in the metal. The cracks in the copper run into the silver wires, which stops the cracks from spreading. [Discovery]

Experiments using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest and most complex machine ever made, could revamp modern physics and unlock secrets about the universe and its origins.

On Wednesday, Evans will fire up the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile-long doughnut-shaped tunnel that will smash sub-atomic particles together at nearly the speed of light. Built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), the collider lies beneath the French-Swiss border, near the institution’s headquarters in Geneva, at depths ranging from 170 feet to 600 feet.  The project has had to work hard to deny suggestions by some critics that the experiment could create tiny black holes of intense gravity that could suck in the whole planet. Such fears, fanned by doomsday writers, have spurred huge interest in particle physics before the machine’s start-up. Leading scientists have dismissed such concerns as “nonsense.”

The debut of the machine that cost 10 billion Swiss francs ($9 billion) registered as a blip on a control room screen at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, at about 9:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. EDT). “We’ve got a beam on the LHC,” project leader Lyn Evans told his colleagues, who burst into applause at the news. The physicists and technicians huddled in the control room cheered loudly again an hour later when the particle beam completed a clockwise trajectory of the accelerator, successfully completing the machine’s first major task. Eventually, the scientists want to send beams in both directions to create tiny collisions at nearly the speed of light, an attempt to recreate on a miniature scale the heat and energy of the Big Bang, a concept of the origin of the universe that dominates scientific thinking. The Big Bang is thought to have occurred 15 billion years ago when an unimaginably dense and hot object the size of a small coin exploded in a void, spewing out matter that expanded rapidly to create stars, planets and eventually life on Earth.

Problems with the LHC’s magnets caused its temperature — which is kept at minus 271.3 degrees Celsius (minus 456.3 degrees Fahrenheit) — to fluctuate slightly, delaying efforts to send a particle beam in the counter-clockwise direction. The beam started its progression and then was halted. “This is a hiccup, not a major thing,” Rudiger Schmidt, CERN’s head of hardware commissioning, told reporters, adding the second rotation should be completed on Wednesday afternoon. Evans, who wore jeans and running shoes to the start-up, declined to say when those high-energy clashes would begin.

“I don’t know how long it will take,” he said. “I think what has happened this morning bodes very well that it will go quickly … This is a machine of enormous complexity. Things can go wrong at any time. But this morning we had a great start.” Once the particle-smashing experiment gets to full speed, data measuring the location of particles to a few millionths of a meter, and the passage of time to billionths of a second, will show how the particles come together, fly apart, or dissolve. [Sciam.com]

It also incorporates Genius technology and features a built-in accelerometer that automatically switches to Cover Flow when rotated and automatically goes into Shuffle mode when lightly shaken.

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iPod nano (4th generation) comes in 8GB and 16GB models, starting at just $149.

A musical Genius: Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. The Genius feature finds the songs in your music library that go great together and makes a Genius Playlist for you. It’s like having your own highly intelligent, personal DJ.

Find your music faster: It’s even easier to find the song you want to hear. Now you can view your album art in Cover Flow. Or just press and hold the Center button to browse by album or artist. When you find the right song, press the Center button to add it to your on-the-go playlist.

Rock and roll over: Tilt or turn iPod nano on its side, and you’ll listen, watch, and play in new ways. You can flip through your album art with Cover Flow. Or, vertically speaking, see more albums and artists on the screen at one time.

Let the games begin: Now you can get in on games made especially for iPod nano and the accelerometer. They respond to the way you move, so they’re immersive, addictive, and a blast. iPod nano comes with Maze, which lets you work your way through vast mazes by tilting and moving. You can find even more games on the iTunes Store.

World’s biggest small screen: Watching movies, TV shows, and videos is big fun on iPod nano. And the high-resolution picture looks crisp and vivid on the 2-inch widescreen display. So you can always have a little video with you.

Curved ahead of the curve: For those about to rock, we give you nine amazing colors. But that’s only part of the story. Feel the curved, all-aluminum and glass design and you won’t want to put iPod nano down.

Great looks And brains, too: The new Genius feature turns iPod nano into your own highly intelligent, personal DJ. It creates playlists by finding songs in your library that go great together.

Made to move with your moves: The accelerometer comes to iPod nano. Give it a shake to shuffle your music. Turn it sideways to view Cover Flow. And play games designed with your moves in mind. [Apple]

A built-in speaker for casual listening, a built-in accelerometer and other advanced sensors, and Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch interface.

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Available now in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB models, iPod touch starts at just $229.

What’s New in this Model?

Sleek new design: iPod touch feels even better in your hand thanks to the stunningly thin, contoured enclosure made of polished stainless steel.

Internet: Browse the web with Wi-Fi. Get rich HTML email, including attachments. Get directions and live traffic reports. Feed your YouTube addiction.

High Technology: Its advanced technologies enable iPod touch to respond to both touch and movement. It also finds wireless networks and connects you to the Internet.

Volume controls: Volume buttons are built into the left side of iPod touch, giving you easy access to the most frequently used controls.

Longer battery life: Now you can keep on rocking (and watching and playing) even longer. Improved battery life means iPod touch provides up to 36 hours of audio playback or 6 hours of video playback — enough to watch three or four movies between charges.*

Built-in speaker: A built-in speaker lets you hear the music, dialogue, and action without headphones, perfect for casual listening.

Rock ’n’ run with Nike+: iPod touch offers built-in wireless support for Nike + iPod. All you need to do is insert a Nike + iPod sensor into your shoe and start running.

More ways to play: With the App Store on iPod touch, hundreds of exciting games and innovative applications are just a tap away. [Apple iPod Touch]

iTunes 8 also features new ways of viewing your music and video libraries, and it adds television programs in stunning high definition for sale on the iTunes Store.

Take a look at new features that will make iTunes 8 your favorite iTunes yet.

Genius Playlists: Meet Genius: a brilliant way to create perfect playlists. Play a song, click the Genius button, and iTunes creates a playlist of other songs from your library that go great together. Genius playlists help you discover songs in your library you never knew you had — and rediscover forgotten favorites.

Genius Sidebar: While you reacquaint yourself with the music you already own, let Genius introduce you to new music you’ll love. As you select songs in your library, the Genius sidebar displays songs from the iTunes Store that go great with it. The Genius sidebar won’t recommend songs already in your library, and you can preview and buy recommended songs directly from the sidebar.

Grid View: See your iTunes library in a new way. Select Albums in Grid View and iTunes 8 displays your entire music library using cover art. Select Artists, Genres, or Composers and iTunes automatically creates groups of albums based on your selection. Simply skim across a group to see the albums inside, and start playing an album with a single click. Movies, TV shows, podcasts, and audiobooks look great in Grid View, too.

HD TV Shows: Purchase select episodes of your favorite TV shows in high definition for just $2.99. Or get the whole season in HD with a Season Pass. And when you buy HD, iTunes doubles your viewing pleasure: You also get an iPod-ready version with a file size and resolution that’s ideal for smaller screens.

Enhanced Accessibility: iTunes 8 is now screen reader friendly on both Mac and PC. Manage your iTunes library using VoiceOver in Mac OS X Leopard or Window-Eyes for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Or use your screen reader to purchase or download content from the iTunes Store — including iTunes U.

New Visualizer: Turn on the new Visualizer and lose yourself in a 3D-scape of spheres, ribbons, and lights that pulsate to the beat and tempo of the song you’re playing. [Apple]

Most important, you don’t just play that scenario; you design it, making Spore’s most compelling attribute the way it blurs the line between creator and consumer.

Though it’s not the be-all and end-all that its five years in the cooker may have suggested, Spore is a transfixing, perplexing, occasionally vexing, but mostly triumphant example of what happens when a design team gets the balance between imposition and choice almost exactly right.

Features:

Take amazing Journey: Create and guide your creature through five stages of evolution.

Unleash your Imagination: Make fantastical creatures, vehicles, buildings and spaceships.

Show Off Your Creation: Everything you make can be shared and used by other players.

Explore your World and Beyond: Seek out new planets filled with other players creations. [SPORE]

One box for everything: Web search. Web history. Address bar. Suggestions as you type. One unified box serves all your browsing needs

New Tab Page: Every time you open a new tab, you’ll see a visual sampling of your most visited sites, most used search engines, and recently bookmarked pages and closed tabs.

Application Shortcut: Use web apps without opening your browser. Application shortcuts can directly load your favorite online apps.

Dynamic Tabs: You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs however you wish — quickly and easily.

Crash Control: Every tab you’re using is run independently in the browser, so if one app crashes it won’t take anything else down.

Incognito Mode: Don’t want pages you visit to show up in your web history? Choose incognito mode for private browsing.

Safe Browsing: Google Chrome warns you if you’re about to visit a suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe website.

Instant Bookmarks: Want to bookmark a web page? Just click the star icon at the left edge of the address bar and you’re done.

Importing Settings: When you switch to Google Chrome, you can pick up where you left off with all the bookmarks and passwords from your existing browser.

Simpler Downloads: No intrusive download manager; you see your download’s status at the bottom of your current window. [Google Chrome]

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The term was originally used to define those electronics such as a transistor radio that used semiconductors rather than vacuum tubes in its construction. Most all electronics that we have today are built around semiconductors and chips. In terms of a SSD, it refers to the fact that the primary storage medium is through semiconductors rather than a magnetic media such as a hard drive.

Now, you might say that this type of storage already exists in the form of flash memory drives that plug into the USB port. This is partially true as solid state drives and USB flash drives both use the same type of non-volatile memory chips that retain their information even when they have no power. The difference is in the form factor and capacity of the drives. While a flash drive is designed to be external to the computer system, an SSD is designed to reside inside the computer in place of a more traditional hard drive.

So how exactly do they do this? Well, an SSD on the outside looks almost no different than a traditional hard drive. This design is to allow the SSD drive to put in a notebook or desktop computer in place of a hard drive. To do this, it needs to have the standard dimension as a 1.8, 2.5 or 3.5-inch hard drive. It also will use either the ATA or SATA drive interfaces so that there is a compatible interface.

Why Use a Solid State Drive?

Solid state drives have several advantages over the magnetic hard drives. The majority of this comes from the fact that the drive does not have any moving parts. While a traditional drive has drive motors to spin up the magnetic platters and the drive heads, all the storage on a solid state drive is handled by flash memory chips. This provides three distinct advantages:

• Less Power Usage
• Faster Data Access
• Higher Reliability

The power usage is a key role for the use of solid state drives in portable computers. Because there is no power draw for the motors, the drive uses far less energy than the regular hard drive. Now, the industry has taken steps to address this with drive spin downs and the development of hybrid hard drives, but both of these still use more power. The solid state drive will consistently draw less power then the traditional and hybrid hard drive. Faster data access will make a number of people happy. Since the drive doesn’t have to spin up the drive platter or move drive heads, the data can be read from the drive near instantly. In a recent demo of two similar equipped notebook computers, Fujitsu was able to demonstrate a roughly 20% speed increase in the booting of Windows XP on a SSD over a standard hard drive.

Reliability is also a key factor for portable drives. Hard drive platters are very fragile and sensitive materials. Even small jarring movements from an impact can cause the drive to be completely unreadable. Since the SSD stores all its data in memory chips, there are fewer moving parts to be damaged in any sort of impact. [via Sandisk]

IBM said Thursday it is testing a 4-terabyte, high-speed solid-state drive array targeted at the enterprise, as the technology giant gives its imprimatur to flash-memory-based storage.

For years, flash memory cards–the first mass-market SSDs–have been limited to digital cameras and music players like the iPod. But SSDs are now poised to hit technological critical mass in terms of storage capacity, speed, and availability as they find their way into everything ranging from tiny netbooks to massive enterprise storage arrays. High-performance enterprise storage is where IBM comes in. Engineers and researchers at the IBM Hursley development lab in England and the Almaden Research Center in California have demonstrated performance results that outperform the world’s fastest disk storage solution by more than 250 percent, according to IBM.

Under the rubric Project Quicksilver, IBM coupled solid-state drives with its storage virtualization technology to achieve a sustained data transfer rate of more than 1 million input/output per second (IOPS), with a response time of less than one millisecond in a 4.1-terabyte rack of SSD storage. SSDs are being supplied by Fusion-io. By comparison, Intel is commercially shipping SSDs (X25-E Extreme) that individually achieve random data reads of 35,000 IOPS and random writes of 3,300 IOPS. In a 3.8-terabyte storage array using 120 SSDs, Intel claims 4.2 million IOPS. IOPS is a crucial benchmark for large customers that process credit card information or run reservation systems, for example.

“It’s feasible that we could get it commercialized within 12 months,” said Charlie Andrews, director of product marketing for IBM systems storage. “Right now we have a screaming (fast) system, but there’s more work to be done in terms of long-term reliability and integration with systems applications. We don’t want to get distracted with ‘push the hardware.’ We want to focus on the solution piece first,” he said. Compared with the fastest industry benchmarked hard disk drive system, Quicksilver not only improved performance by 250 percent but did this in less than one-twentieth of the response time, one-fifth of the floor space, and with 55 percent of the power and cooling requirements, IBM said. [CNET via Intel]

As you type on the laser projection, detection technology based on optical recognition enables the user to tap the images of the keys, complete with realistic tapping sounds, which feed into the compatible Bluetooth-enabled PDA, Smartphone, laptop or PC.

Unlike many small snap-on keyboards for PDAs, the Virtual Laser Keyboard provides a full-size QWERTY keyboard. It is also smaller and more convenient to use than the folding-type keyboards made by some manufacturers and similar to them in functionality. There are no mechanical moving parts whatsoever in the Virtual Laser Keyboard. It provides a projected image that is the perfect portable input device for PDAs. It’s similar in responsiveness to regular keyboards.

Technology

Features
* Connects to PDAs Smartphones and Computers using Bluetooth.
* Projects a full size QWERTY keyboard onto any flat surface.
* Allows the convinence of regular keyboard typing in a tiny form factor.
* Rechargeable battery lasts for 120 minutes of continuous typing.
* Tiny size only 3.5 inches high.
* Compatible with PalmOS 5, PocketPC 2003, Windows Smartphone, Symbian OS, and Windows 2000/XP, Limited Mac OSX Support.

The light weight device weighs two ounces and is similar in size to a disposable cigarette lighter. The Virtual Laser Keyboard includes a self-contained, rechargeable lithium ion battery. It provides the Virtual Laser Keyboard with its own internal power supply, so it doesn’t drain any battery power from the PDA or PC. The battery lasts two to three hours, more than enough time to do some instant messaging and SMS messaging from the handheld device or to update calendar and phone book entries. [VKB via Overclock3d]

The concept is simple: leverage Google’s expertise in infrastructure, search and relevance to connect users with content created by developers like you.

Developers will be able to make their content available on an open service hosted by Google that features a feedback and rating system similar to YouTube. We chose the term “market” rather than “store” because we feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to make their content available. Similar to YouTube, content can debut in the marketplace after only three simple steps: register as a merchant, upload and describe your content and publish it. We also intend to provide developers with a useful dashboard and analytics to help drive their business and ultimately improve their offerings.

I also wanted to share some early details to help with planning your efforts so that you can be ready as our partners release the first Android-powered handsets. Developers can expect the first handsets to be enabled with a beta version of Android Market. Some decisions are still being made, but at a minimum you can expect support for free (unpaid) applications. Soon after launch an update will be provided that supports download of paid content and more features such as versioning, multiple device profile support, analytics, etc. Below are some screenshots that illustrate some of the security features and workflow.

With the addition of a marketplace, the Android ecosystem is becoming even more robust. I am incredibly energized by the support and amazing content I’ve seen so far. We will share more details as they are available and I look forward to working with many of you in the coming months. [Android]

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Check the slim and stylish, next-generation TouchSmart PC, designed to look “at home” in any room of your home. Once you start working, listening to music, editing photos and videos, checking e-mail, and watching TV from your kitchen or family room, you’ll never go back.

Your digital life at your fingertips
* Get quick, easy touch-screen access to information, entertainment, and social networks1.
* Simplify access to photos, videos, music, and applications with the HP TouchSmart software.

Slim, stylish, next-generation PC
* Plug and play with a single power cord
* Go wireless with the wireless keyboard and integrated WLAN2
* Stow the keyboard when not in use to free up desk space
* Tilt the screen for maximum viewing comfort
* Set a mood in the room and see your keyboard in the dark with the HP Ambient Light feature
* Accent your décor with the sleek, piano-black design with espresso-toned side-panels

HP TouchSmart PC integrated premium speakers Bring photos, movies, and music to life
* Have more fun with photos, videos, and music.
* Hold video chats 1 with the built-in webcam and microphone.
* Watch, pause, rewind, and record live TV with the dual-format NTSC or over-air ATSC high-definition TV tuner.
* Enjoy your favorite TV shows on the integrated 22″ diagonal hi-def3 widescreen (also great for slide shows).
* Get super sound through the integrated premium speakers.
* Burn and watch personal videos with the built-in slot-load SuperMulti DVD Burner.

Solid performance
* Get premium performance, reliability, and enhanced security with Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition with Service Pack 1.
* Be productive with the 2.16GHz Intel Core2 Duo Processor T5850.
* Store more on the 500GB 7200 rpm hard drive.

HP TouchSmart PC tuner, HP TouchSmart PC HP Ambient Light feature. Good for the environment
* Reduce your impact on the environment with this ENERGY STAR® qualified, EPEAT registered system.
* Cut your energy use up to 45%4 with HP’s power-management technology.
* Create less waste: this model uses 55% less metal and 35% less plastic than standard PCs and monitors5, and comes packaged in a reduced amount of plastic foam cushioning6.

Software, security and support
We test and qualify all software sold with our PCs to help ensure a trouble-free experience with software on your new computer.
* Stay safe from viruses, spam, spyware, and other on-line threats with the preinstalled security software
* Get peace of mind with the one-year limited hardware and software7 warranty
* Get help 24 x 7 toll free or online from HP Total Care: our North America call center provides dedicated support for TouchSmart customers

* Get additional coverage for your PC with an optional extended service plan with Accidental Damage Protection and House Call. [More Info at HP via Amazon]

Macbook Air Starting at $1799.

The thinness of MacBook Air is stirring. But perhaps more impressive, there’s a full-size notebook encased in the 0.16 to 0.76 inch of sleek, sturdy anodized aluminum. And at just 3.0 pounds, MacBook Air is more than portable — it’s with you everywhere you go. The glossy 13.3-inch, widescreen LED backlit MacBook Air display is the same viewable size as the screen on MacBook. The 1280-by-800 resolution gives you vibrant images and rich colors at full brightness the moment you open MacBook Air. So you get full-screen performance with all the benefits of a slim design.

MacBook Air is nearly as thin as your index finger. Practically every detail that could be streamlined has been. Yet it still has a 13.3-inch widescreen LED display, full-size keyboard, and large multi-touch trackpad. It’s incomparably portable without the usual ultraportable screen and keyboard compromises.

The incredible thinness of MacBook Air is the result of numerous size- and weight-shaving innovations. From a slimmer hard drive to strategically hidden I/O ports to a lower-profile battery, everything has been considered and reconsidered with thinness in mind.

MacBook Air is designed and engineered to take full advantage of the wireless world. A world in which 802.11n Wi-Fi is now so fast and so available, people are truly living untethered — buying and renting movies online, downloading software, and sharing and storing files on the web.

The keyboard is full-size with crisp keys just like the ones on MacBook. But MacBook Air goes further by adding backlit key illumination, making it easy to work in low-light settings such as airplanes and conference halls. A built-in ambient light sensor automatically adjusts keyboard and display brightness for optimal visibility. And with the oversize multi-touch trackpad, it just keeps getting better for fingers. [Apple]

No need to worry if your data is lost or stolen. Without the correct password, no one can get it. Absolutely no one.

Available Capacities: 320GB (STM903203BAA1E1-RK), 160GB (STM901603BAA1E1-RK).

Hardware-Based Full-Disc Encryption: Prohibits access without a password, no exceptions-not even a professional data recovery service can access the data without the password.

KeyErase™: Permanent removal of encryption key allows secure redeployment of the drive.

USB Powered: Powers your drive and ensures fast data transfer-no clunky power adapter to carry.

320GB Capacity: Stores up to 5,330 hours of digital music, 102,400 digital photos, 320 hours of digital video, 80 two-hour DVD-quality movies, or 160 exciting games.

5400RPM, 8MB Cache Buffer: For fast drive performance and fast access to your files.

Backup Software: Automated backup scheduling software is included. Maxtor Manager software lets you easily set your automated backup schedule, sync to multiple computers, and restore files. [Seagate]

The Power of Two
The Intel®  CoreTM  2 Duo is optimized for processor-intensive multimedia and applications, driving your PC and digital entertainment experience further and faster than ever before.

Ultimate Windows Vista®  Productivity
Take control of your PC with Microsoft’s latest operating system. Enjoy enhanced organization, search features and network controls and use the new built-in Media Center to manage your digital photos, videos and music. Choose (PRODUCT) REDTM  for this system and experience Windows Vista®  Ultimate (PRODUCT) REDTM . Enjoy an exclusive screen saver, wallpapers and a special (PRODUCT) REDTM  Dream Scene video wallpaper.

Windows (PRODUCT) RED
Everyday we use our computers to connect and collaborate with others. And now you can use them to help change a life. Dell and Windows are proud to partner with (PRODUCT) REDTM . When you purchase Dell and Windows (PRODUCT) REDTM  signature products a portion of sales will go to the Global Fund to help fight AIDS in Africa. It’s that easy, and it’s no extra cost to you.

Break the Mold
Even when space is at a premium, the Dell XPS One is a perfect fit. Just over 16″ tall with a single cord that rests flush against the body of the computer, it sits comfortably in even compact workspaces.

Look Sharp
To help you stay in touch with friends and interact with the online community, the XPS One features a discreet 2-megapixel webcam and enhanced-capture, dual-microphone array with noise cancellation. LED lights tell you when the camera is on and stay dark when it’s not in use.

XPS One Desktop PC Sonic Sensation
Maximize your listening pleasure. The XPS One features integrated right and left speakers for incredible Hi-Def sound. And when you want to listen to music with the lights down low, a single touch dims the screen while the songs play on.

Entertainment Command Center Use your XPS One as a media hub with:
* PC and HDTV All-in-One. Easy data transfer options, including an 8-in-1 media card reader, USB drives, IEEE 1394a data ports, integrated gigabit Ethernet and more.
* Integrated 802.11a/b/g/n Draft 2.0 Wi-Fi so you can share files, printer access and a broadband connection across multiple systems in your home.
* Internal BlueTooth 2.0 for wireless connection to Bluetooth-enabled peripherals like your PDA or cell phone.
* Standard DVD+-/RW drive so you can watch or burn video and audio discs or back up your data.
* Optional BluRay Disc Drive for additional storage and viewing high def movies. [DELL]

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Full-Throttle Graphics: Get a quad-graphics solution for a lightning-fast gaming experience. Quad Graphics allow you to take advantage of the most demanding visual enhancements inherent in the latest games without compromising your performance.

Extreme Overclocked Speed: With your choice of fast Intel®  dual, quad and extreme-core processors, including optional factory-overclocking1, the XPS 730 delivers reliable performance right out of the box. Add blinding speeds with up to 4GB2 of Overclocked DDR3 Corsair®  DOMINATOR memory, 1600MHz Overclocked.1

H2C Hybrid Liquid Cooling: The XPS 730 H2C comes with Dell’s patented two-stage cooling system that helps keep your overclocked1 CPU and chipset cool and stable. The innovative H2C hybrid solution combines a liquid radiator, a thermoelectric cooling module and control circuitry, optimizing CPU cooling with minimal power consumption. Standard on Victory Red and Stealth Blue, optional on the Brushed Aluminum model.

Upgrade, Expand and Dominate: Be the first to dominate with advances in gaming technology with a standard ATX case chassis design.

Optimize your PC’s Performance with ESA!: ESA enables real-time and complete PC performance management, while delivering new control and monitoring features for thermal, electric and acoustic characteristics. Tune your system to sustain peak performance or whisper-quiet operation.

Uncompromising Design: Let your rivals drool over the powerful components inside your system. The XPS 730 combines incredible power with uncompromising design for peak performance. Available in Brushed Aluminum, Victory Red and Stealth Blue.

Enjoy First Class Support: Superior service is standard with XPSTM  products. Dell XPSTM  technicians pass rigorous XPSTM  products-specific training, and support calls are normally answered in less than 2 minutes.

You can also count on the latest virus and spyware protection,
1 year of Dell DataSafeTM  Online Backup, and 24×7 telephone support. In short, the ownership experience is just like the machine itself – top of the line. [DELL]