This could be a smart move for AMD. If they're correctly prognosticating the long term sales rates of netbooks, then the money they save on R&D and resources for an Atom competitor could outweigh potential sales into the market. This will be especially true if they make the strong push into the market that lies between netbooks and notebooks. A very lightweight notebook in the 10"-13" range with a CPU/GPU/Chipset combination to provide better battery life without sacrificing much processing power would pull away sales from both the notebook and netbook market, and would not rely on being purely a secondary purchase.

Yeah, I've been using mine now for over a month. It is pretty stylish, on top of being 320 Gigs of storage for a good price.

I was expecting to come in here and read a bunch of comments bashing the zune, but then I realized that the apple and microsoft fanbois hatred for gamestop far outweighs their petty rivalries with each other.

Gamestop should just shrivel up and die already.



Can you tell I don't like gamestop?

I guess in Apple fanboy land, logic is not a currency of the masses. Amazon is now offering a competing service to ITMS that has no DRM. But you seem to claim the "music labels" are selling with Amazon in order to hurt ITMS because...
"They [Apple] want DRM-free music. The labels are screaming to make the DRM more restrictive."
Apple wants DRM-free music? Good job there, chief.

@ilh

I saw that The Apples in Stereo - Energy is available for free, so anyone could test it from overseas without having to pay anything.

The first version has the same layout on screen as the last, the only thing they changed was how shiny it is. The visuals have changed, but the layout hasn't at all.

hah, I was just thinking that too, JeremyS

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the ever popular HD-DVD drive

House M.D.