This week, Dell and subsidiary gaming computer company Alienware began shipping 1-TB hard drives in select desktop PCs. The addition of terabyte technology is now available for the XPS, Aurora, and Area-51 desktops. A TB of storage on the Area-51 is available for $320 added on to the normal price.

“Digital content use is exploding in the consumer market – with this 1TB hard drive, a lifetime of memories, music and other information can be made, stored and shared with others,” said Neil Hand, vice president, worldwide consumer marketing consumer product group, in a statement. “This type of capability used to be available only to the largest corporations. With the spectacular advancement in hard drives and the engineering in our systems, we’re now able to bring it to consumers.”

With a 1TB hard drive, you could even set up a makeshift time capsule of everything occurring in your life, including all of your possessions and where they are located. Which means no more last keys. — Andrew Dobrow

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With the January 30th launch date of Vista rapidly approaching, computer companies are in cram mode making sure their new computers are all equipped with the newest Microsoft OS. With the relatively high performance needed from a computer running Vista, prices of new desktops may have a moment of high peak prices. DosPara offers an alternative.

For $400, DosPara offers a computer capable of running Vista. We don’t know how effectively it actually runs, since it will have the bare minimum of specs needed, but evidently, it does in fact run at least.

The specs of the DosPara are in fact a little under the average needed performance needs for Vista with a 2.53Ghz CeleronD CPU, 512MB of RAM, and a 80GB hard drive, but for $400, you can’t expect much more then that. For around $500-$550, you can get the advanced version which adds Office Personal 2007 and PowerPoint 2007.

Unless you are very bad off with money, it would probably be beneficial waiting for a more expensive, and more capable product. Or of course you could just go with a Mac. But for the price, it’s hard to beat unless you make it yourself. — Andrew Dobrow

A Vista PC for 320 Euros [Akihabara News]