@Freedom Town

Unless your console supports multiple video streams, I fail to see how having a disk in the drive to start streaming is a big deal - you can only view one thing at a time, so why sweat it?

Besides, as it has been said many times before, putting a disk in the drive to stream is kinda like now, where you put the disk from netflix *your dvd* in to watch it.

Yes, the Planet Earth series is one of the best gifts I've ever recieved. I'm not very good at many games, so I don't play much except Madden, GT5 and NCAA Football. Just recently got the Netflix so I've been watching more movies, and the blu-ray selection is adequate, so I go for them when I can. Can't say I own but a few, but it's sufficient.

I certainly hope Apple follows Symantec's lead by removing bloat. People complained about Norton's incredible resource-whoring and they finally started to (attempt) to do something about it. Perhaps Apple will someday realize that a 72mb installer for a simple media player is just too much. That's the only iTunes update that would make me use it again.

I find it hard to believe that Google, a beacon of clean, minimalist design, would have such an absolutely hideous UI - particularly that font - horrible! I call BS on this one.

I've been with T-Mobile for about four years now. About a year ago, when I got a new job, my company gave me a Blackberry - about two months after I had just signed a new 2-year contract with T-Mobile. I had two phones, which cost around $150 a month. Rather than make me pay the ETF, the lady suggested I convert it to one of their 'T-Mobile @Home' VoIP packages, at $10 a month. So now my two phones, a regular cell for my spouse and my @Home phone cost $60 a month. All because of their customer service letting me know all of my options, even though I'm paying only a third of what I was paying.

T-Mobile's been fantastic - I couldn't imagine going anywhere else.

I got my sister an Inspiron 1350. It has that odd bump underneath the play button at the top of the keyboard too.

I have a T500 - keyboard is perfect - just like every other Lenovo laptop keyboard.

I appreciate all the help here. Here are some more details if it helps any.

Pretty much I have this setup - a 1680x1050 monitor and a 1280x1024. I work from home a couple days a week, at which point I use a dock for a Lenovo T500. I don't play many games on the PC, so that's not a problem, but hardware is a must - my work laptop is on VPN, which has local access blocked (so synergy/RDP won't work). I'm a developer, so dual screens get pretty useful. That's not a hard requirement, just something that would be nice to have.

Thanks for all the help - I've been looking the hardest at the Belkin Flip, just because it seems to have the most positive reviews out of everything I've read. Not dual monitorm but having two would satisfy that just fine.

And when I said 'cheap,' I meant sub-$500 or so - I saw some that were thousands the other day and it was pretty discouraging.

thanks

I use an Optoma EP716 as my daily-driver HDTV with a 130" screen. I've had it for about a year and a half, use it everyday and haven't had to change the bulb yet. I'm sitting at about 1700 lamp hours, so I'm sure I'll have to change it soon (rated at 2000 hours), but the projector was $500. Bulbs are ~$200, so I think it's definitely worth it, especially if I only change the bulb every year and a half or so. I have to pull the blinds at least halfway during the day, but after 5p, outdoor light isn't an issue and I'm never home before 5 during the week anyway. I have the screen next to a balcony door, but unless there is direct sunlight hitting the screen, the picture is fine.

I use a digital cable box, a PS3 and a Wii with it.

I have a small (22") LCD in my office which I use as an HDTV when I'm at home and actually have work to do...like now :)

Correction - they HAD people to do that sort of thing...