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No monitor, no keyboard. Once you tack the LCD on, the price is bound to rise...unless they make it able to connect to TVs, which are plentiful in India. An ultra-cheap, portable, barebones, modular system running Linux and capable of outputing to a standard CRT TV would be extremely useful in putting technology within the reach of millions of underprivileged children. Gives them atleast a hope of a brighter future if they make good use of it and hone their skills.

3000 TB is serious overkill for the current level of home usage, and I suspect, much of the corporate usage too.I currently have approx 3 TB and I am happy with that much space ! I agree, defragging such large drives manually is a huge waste of time. I use the excellent automatic defragmenter called Diskeeper 2009 that automatically defrags these large drives in the background whenever essential. I can even continue to work during that process without a problem, so right now, it's not an issue for me.Defragging 3000 TB would take a week atleast. But more importantly if you have a 3000TB drive,...you'll need 6000 TB totally...3000 for your main drive and another 3000 to backup that drive!!! And what about backup times? OMG...what happens if the 3000TB crashes and you lose the xyzillions of vidoes and mp3s on it.

Another vote for Diskeeper. Use 2009 Pro on two XP Pro SP3 systems. Great utility- does the job without any fuss and has a small resource utilization footprint even on the auto defrag mode. I even managed to defrag a 250GB drive that had way less than 10% free space with Diskeeper

7-8 megapixels is more than sufficient unless you like to crop your images a lot, you print at very large sizes or you are a pro. You wont see much of a difference between 8.1 and 9 mp. Actually you lose image quality especially for low light shooting (high ISO) when the number of megapixels is increased without increasing the physical sensor size. The megapixel wars are not good for the consumer in the compact camera segment (DSLRs are a different story). BTW, I would choose the canon, simply because Sony's propietary lock-in formats make me extremely uncomfortable. I think all the sony compact cameras use memory stick, while the canons use the cheaper and larger capacity SDHC cards.