I, for one, welcome our new robot pancake making overlords. But if it it doesn't also make sausage and some nicely basted eggs, I'm going to keep going to IHOP!

Can't we all just get along?

Walk? Ride a bike? Carpool? Public Transportation? Telecommute?

It looks like an outhouse...

Weird, never seen a post truncated like that before. Anyway I'll just post it again, so forgive me if Engaget finds the remainder of my last post after I repost it again and it ends up as a double post... Maybe it is because I used less-than dollar-sign in my post. I'll leave it out this time.

This is the Asus Eee PC effect on pricing, methinks. If more manufacturers try to hit the under $500 price point in an UMPC then the consumers will enjoy even more options.

Here's my idea, sort of like reverse thinking on Tablet PC... Keep the unit small to where it's still a good touch-type keyboard, and then allow the attachment of whatever size screen you want to lug around. Need a 2 pound laptop? Stick on the 7" screen and go. Want to do some huge spreadsheets in the conference room? Stick on a 15" or 17" screen and haul that thing in there. Sitting at a desk? Hook up the DVI and run it at 1600x1200 on the 20" at the desk. What about those glasses with the built in LCD monitor, now you don't even need carry a screen on it at all...

This is the Asus Eee PC effect on pricing, methinks. If more manufacturers try to hit the

This isn't a system update, it's just the Photo Channel. If you need mp3, don't go to the online store and get the new Photo Channel... If you buy a Wii that already has the new Photo Channel installed, well I guess you better like AAC!

"The system presumably will be slightly more or less been castrated to"

I'd so much rather read the occasional overlord or blend comments then have to listen to iphone this and apple that and fanboy waaambulances

You have a source on this claim? All I could find was that Microsoft is making it possible for other search engines to function in the same way the built-in one does...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=713