The Raspberry Pi is one tiny computer that’s actually functional enough for modern use. It doesn’t get any more barebones than a little circuit board with a 700MHz ARM 11 processor, a USB port, an HDMI port and an install of Ubuntu Linux.

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$25 computer is barely larger than the average USB stick

You probably can’t afford a Lamborghini sports car. Sorry! But I bet you can afford to settle for the next best thing: Asus’s Lamborghini VX7 laptop.

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Can’t afford a Lamborghini? How about a Lamborghini laptop?

Asus, a company that literally rose to the top on booming netbook sales knows that the mobile computing space it literally defined with the Eee PC is shrinking. A new DigiTimes report says that the Taiwanese computer company is prepping a super cheap netbook running either Android or Chrome OS to combat the rise of tablets.

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Can Asus’ $200 Chrome OS-powered netbook save netbooks from demise?

Building a computer out of a cardboard shipping box is nothing new for a hobbyist. But for a PC maker like Asus to actually embrace the idea? Well, that’s just ballsy.

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Asus gets serious about cardboard PCs made from shipping boxes

Starting next year, every single PC made by HP will dual-boot Windows and WebOS . Can a mobile OS save HP?

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Every single HP computer in 2012 will have WebOS alongside Windows

With Fujitsu’s new wireless 22-inch PC monitor, we’re another step closer to severing the cables from our computers. Graphics cards have already made the jump to wireless , so why not computer monitors?

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New PC monitor is wireless, powered by magnetic induction

Gloat all you want with your MacBook Pro or 12 hour and up battery netbook, but neither of them can hold a candle to HP’s new EliteBook laptops and its record-setting battery life — 32 hours on a single charge. Top that Apple!

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HP shows everyone its the battery king with 32 hour laptops

While Apple is still touting multitouch gestures as the only practical solution to interacting with a touchscreen PC, HP’s making it their duty to innovate with a touchscreen TouchSmart PC that reduces arm fatigue.

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HP’s new ergonomic all-in-one touchscreen PC actually makes sense

Today, it’s hard to think of computers as more than a collection of advanced microchips and the like — processors, RAM, flash storage and graphics cards, for example. Like a river, the flow of technology that has led us to the modern computing architecture we use today came from some several often overlooked sources — the proverbial “stones that divert the river.” These are the heroes of our technological past, with a few predictions sprinkled in there for good measure. Click on the gallery below to get this journey started.

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10 landmark technologies that defined computers, and 5 that will

The last time we checked in with the fantastic sun readable Pixel Qi screen , it was just a DIY hack. Now it’s a full-blown netbook made to order.

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Sunbook thinks netbook with a sun readable screen is worth $800