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Alienware’s latest gaming laptop behemoth has landed in the US, and the Area-51 m17 should be plenty powerful enough to play the latest titles.

The 17inch screen and packed-in components make the m17 very much a desktop replacement rather than something you will be lugging round with you on your Sunday foray to Coffee Republic. But for gamers who want a degree of portability it certainly packs a hefty punch.

High-end

An Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX in a dual GPU SLI configuration, Intel’s Core 2 extreme processor and up to 4 gigs of RAM makes the little-shy-of-5kg weight slightly more understandable.

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Asus officially launches the EeePC 900 in the UK this week, in a range of colours including pink for girls, blue for boys and black for, well, anyone who likes black.

Asus is running a marketing campaign in conjunction with the DVD release of movie The Ugly Duckling and Me, with a roaming photo opp on Tottenham Court Road today featuring a “huge EeePC mascot” and Ratso and Ugly,” two larger-than-life lead characters from the movie”

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Microsoft’s ebullient CEO Steve Ballmer has been included in TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people list.

The larger-than-life Microsoft man has become an increasingly influential figure at the Redmond company since Bill Gates announced that he will step down in June this year.

Ballmer’s on-stage antics – a famous monkey dance, throwing a MacBook Air to the ground and fairly regular bursts of screaming enthusiasm – have made him a cult figure within Microsoft.

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