Dawn of the super desktops

Updated on: 29 January,2009 07:38 AM IST |
The Mid Day Team |

If you thought smartphones and pocket PCs are driving desktops to oblivion, you are wrong

If you thought smartphones and pocket PCs areu00a0 driving desktops to oblivion, you are wrong

As laptops started selling by the millions, the desktop became an ignored child. But that was yesterday. The friendly personal computer that rescues you every time your notebook crashes, is living its second innings in style, thanks to powerful multimedia PCs and evolved, touch-screen avatars.

Everyone's at it

Other manufacturers aren't neglecting the tabletop processor, either. Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop has proved a worthy replacement for Windows Vista led systems, Sony came up with its Vaio L and VGC series of desktops and Apple's iMac continues to be an ever favourite both among pros and families.

The mightiest one

If you think fancy pocket PCs would win the power game hands down in a few months, let us fill you in on the most powerful desktop in the world the Cray CX1. The machine can run up to 512GB (that's GB, not MB) of memory and store up to four terabytes (4,000 GB) of data. The top model in the range, which costs around $60,000, incorporates 16 different processors. And you thought the good ol' PC was on its way out?

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