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HP may have just the setup; they’ve announced their latest desktop PC, the HP Pavilion Elite HPE, along with a new, multitouch-capable 21.5-inch LCD, the HP Compaq L2105tm, at CES 2010. The Pavilion Elite HPE will be available with various Intel Core 2 Quad, Core i7 and AMD Phenom II processors, along with up to 1TB of storage, NVIDIA or ATI graphics and Windows 7.
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Four SKUs look to be available at launch, the HP Pavilion Elite HPE-110f (with an AMD Phenom II 925), the HPE-120f (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300), HPE-130f (AMD Phenom II 955) and the HPE-170f (Intel Core i7-920). Various levels of RAM are supported – up to 24GB in fact on the HPE-170f – and there are DVD burners, WiFi a/g/n and gigabit ethernet. No pricing as yet, but the HP Pavilion Elite HPE range is expected to drop at the end of January.
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As for the HP Compaq L2105tm, that’s HP’s first optical-touch monitor and offers a 1,000:1 contrast ratio and 1920 x 1080 resolution. It’s available now, priced at $299.