"I took the X60, M200 and OQO Model 02 to the beach a few weeks ago. We had two babies, three or four college attendees, a bunch of parents, and a couple of grandparents (that were also Great Grandparents!) Needless to say, everybody got time with cool toys. However, the combination of snacks, sun screen and lots of fingers made the keyboards and screens gross when they finally got home."

I'd be more worried about how the sand might effect those units. Anyway, keep reading for the real-deal on cleaning a UMPC screen.

VIA has "announced a 500MHz addition to the VIA Eden ultra low voltage (ULV) processor family. With an idle power of just 0.1 watt, the 500MHz VIA Eden ULV processor has been designed from the ground up to meet the low power requirements of a wide range of industrial, commercial and ultra mobile applications. The new processor, along with several customer boards, will be showcased at the Embedded System Conference Taiwan, held on 23-24 August 2007 in Taipei."\

The Press Release goes on to list an impressive 30 customers who have already adopted the processor with quoted endorsements from four significant embedded industry players.

“The 500MHz VIA Eden ULV was the logical choice for our new 5.25” SBC, EBM-CX700 and B5 size slim PC, the ASM-CX700,” said Sam Wang, Vice-President of Avalue. “Now that VIA has brought to market an x86-based processor that doesn’t have the prohibitively high power consumption of other offerings, the benefits in terms of versatility, availability of compatible software and hardware, and performance can’t be overlooked.”

The video, Going green - building a sub-60W PC, is the most ambitious video project we have undertaken in many years. The video shows just how simple it is to build a PC that never consumes more than 60W.

The article contains even more facts and figures than the video. Do you know how much power your PC consumes when your doing something as simple as surfing the web?

"It's nothing more than an urban myth that everyone needs to have a PC that has five fans blowing away, sucking down 180W while you surf the net. The average computer user doesn't need a computer that consumes that amount of power. The IT industry has been so focused, for so many years, on increasing the power, in terms of performance, that power consumption has been largely ignored. It's time that there was some diversification in the industry, so that power efficient "green" PCs are made available. Consumer demand will see this happen." Read on...

Neoseeker.com think they might have found a sweetspot for people wanting a video card with a bit of muscle without having to sell their first born: "The card is aimed to interest gamers who are willingly to pay for high performance, but are perhaps not wanting to shell out the top dollar for the pricey pinnacle of GPU technology right now, the 8800 GTX. Being an overclocked 8800 GTS card with 640 MBs of memory, this BFG offering could be seen as addressing a midway point between the attractive price of a 320 MB-variant 8800 GTS, compared to the expensive performance of a 8800 GTX."

Finally, over at LegitReviews.com, someone's mind must have boggled when they tried to sort out all of the test scores in excel, since this review of the ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT, 2600 Pro and 2600 XT video cards also includes results from 30 other cards! "AMD recently launched ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT, 2600 Pro and 2600 XT Video Cards and today Legit Reviews looks at their performance on DX9 games, which happens to be what the majority of gamers are still playing. With prices on the Radeon HD 2400 XT starting at $79.99 these cards are aimed at entry level and mainstream users. Read on to see how these three cards do against 30 other top leading PCIe graphics cards"