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In January it was selling for just 325 English pounds, which was a great deal, check it out now, if you are in the market for a laptop. It's the DELL Latitude D600 laptop.

Here's the specs to help you decide.

It's reputed to be the bargain of a lifetime.

• Intel Pentium M 1.6GHz
• 1GB RAM
• 60GB HDD
• 14.1″ TFT Display
• Windows XP Pro
• Internal CDRW/DVD drive
• Wireless
• 2 x USB port
• 56k modem
• 9 pin serial (RS232) port
• 10/100 network port
• Parallel printer port
• 1 x PC card type II or 1 x Type III, serial, parallel, Fast Infrared Port, external monitor, 2 x USB, headphone, external microphone, S-video out, smart card, modem (RJ-11) and 10/100 network (RJ-45)
• 16-bit stereo Sound Blaster Pro compatible, 3D-Wide mode FM & Wavetable synthesis, built-in stereo speakers and microphone
• Up to 1,024 x 768 x 16.7 million colours (internal); Up to 1,280 x 1,024 x 256 colours (external)
• Removable lithium-ion battery, up to 4.5 hrs battery life, with optional 2nd battery up to 8 hrs (when new)

Sounds like a good deal to me, no doubt software is extra.

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New media gets press makeover

May 14th 2008 07:40

May 9 - The editors of newspapers are no longer old fashioned luddites running in fear of digital technology, according to a new poll.

The survey of editors-in-chief from around the world finds most feel optimistic about the rapid emergence of new media newsrooms.

Darcy Lambton reports.

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Zero emission cars will take 40 years. (LINK)

May 13th 2008 13:49

President Bush, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the big automakers agree on this much: They love hydrogen-powered fuel cell technology and its promise of a zero-emission, petroleum-free future.

Unfortunately, experts say it will be 40 years or more before hydrogen has any meaningful impact on gasoline consumption or global warming, and we can't afford to wait that long. In the meantime, fuel cells are diverting resources from more immediate solutions.

"As a climate strategy, it's not very good," said Dr. Joseph Romm, executive director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions and author of The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate. "We don't have the time."

Climate experts and alternative-fuel researchers, including some hydrogen proponents, agree that hydrogen is at best a long-term solution. In the short and medium term, however, other technologies offer far greater benefit at far less cost: Cleaner internal combustion engines, hybrids and plug-in hybrids.

That information comes from Wired - link attached above

So, it's not much good getting all 'fired' up about zero emissions just yet as we need better solutions faster, we just cannot wait 10 years.

Zero emission cars will take 40 years. (LINK)

Beijing Olympics and zero emissions (LINK)

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