Now here's another thing you never thought you'd see from Dell. Today marks the launched of the Inspiron Duo, a hybrid Netbook-come-Tablet desperate to find its way under a few christmas trees at just $545. In addition to it's 2GB of RAM and 1.5Ghz Atom Dual-core processor, the device benefits from up to 320GB of SATA glory making it one of the better equipped christmas netbooks on the market. The Inspiron Duo's real party peice comes from it's flippable 10.1-inch multi-touch display, which switches up it's full keyboard for one meaty tablet experience.

Obviously Dell didn't get the note from Apple saying moving-part storage in portables is dead, but then again with the rest of the hardware virtually the same for half the price of a baseline Air, you can't really complain. If the Inspiron Duo makes it onto your list to santa, you might want to link him up to Dell.com as you can grab one over there today.

As per usual LA's annual Consumer Electronics Show totally took-over winter tech by storm! 2010's CES has introduced a smorgasbord of upcoming technologies coupled with thousands of pre-release gadgets and gizmos, wetting the worlds appitate for the next generation of video, audio, computer and gaming systems.

As mobile computing evolves with the takeoff of the tablet, we're left wondering where does this leave our beloved notebooks? Well we've filtered through the silicon to find out just this, so here's our list of Top 5 CES 2010 Notebooks!

Dell are proving this year's CES isn't all 3D, tablets and displays by annoucing the worlds first 'all powerful ultra mobile gaming system' in the form of the fragtastic Alienware M11X notebook. This ultra-compact machine sports an 11" 720p display with instantly switchable dual Nvidia GPUs for up-to 'two hours of intense gaming' running on battery. The M11X features Display Port, HDMI and VGA video outputs, and boasts 50FPS on Crysis and 30FPS with Call Of Duty.

Dell reported the laptop will be available later this year for under $1000

As if the G-unit haven't exited us enough lately with news of the Nexus One Google phone currently in the works and the epic Twitter rollout. It looks like Google's next insane venture has been leaked and it comes in the form of a Chrome OS Netbook!

TechCrunch have reported rumours regarding a Google-branded netbook device set for release early next year. The notebook is reckoned not to have have Intel inside, but an ARM or Nvidia processor. It's also likely to ship with a data plan as Chrome OS is oh-so reliant on 'The Cloud'.

The premise of Google releasing their own brand of netbook looks likely when compared to the similar instance earlier this week. Talk is that Google have again given a 'request for proposal' in order to cite a suitable supplier for the product