This is a neat idea, and a great start, but I should mention that this program has *completely* fucked up my Cube. I hate to point fingers, but I've never had any of these issues until I just installed this program. Video started freezing, then nothing but blackness, and now I can't even get past the Gray Apple startup screen. 4 Kernal Panics and counting. Install at your own risk.

As an FYI, I am running 10.4.8 on a 1.7GhZ Sonnet G4 with a GeForce 5200.

It looks nice, but as others have pointed out, I am not exactly clear what this offers over my Airmac base station that already streams tunes and video to all my other macs and the Mini hooked up to my TV. Furthermore, whats to gain from a 40GB internal hard drive that cannot already be achieved by streaming video from an external Firewire/USB2 drive? Perhaps this is geared towards people who don't have this kind of setup? I suppose if I didn't already have this type of network in place I would be more excited.

hmm...that looks suspiciously like the AU Design Project "Infobar" phone offered from AU here in Japan from a few years back that I used to have. (http://www.au.kddi.com/au_design_project/seihin/infobar/index.html)

all white with a super slim form factor. Its an older phone by today's standards, but the design was highly sought after and many people still use it since its such a cool phone, and the white one looks very similar. If there were any Japanese helping with the shoot, that might explain it...but the problem is that there is no antenna on the phone in the pic, but the AU phone had a small antenna (which broke off on mine after about 5 months)...I dunno.

We will have none of that here. I am all about the cone!

There is a nice set of icons to change only the color of the cone at Icon Factory, though.

I've got Daft Punk on line 1, they want a pair. Oh wait, Samus is on line 2. She wants one as well.

Yes!!!! PLEASE make this happen. anyone with dual monitors is on board, whether they realise yet it or not. I've got too much crap in that menu bar (and dock for that matter) to keep it limited to one screen. It seems like such a simple way to expand the usability of OS X. Perhaps Leopard will address this? But then again, I think I was saying the same thing before Tiger came out...

I say take it one step further and give us some options to shrink/expand the fonts as well, to make room for more menu stuff. Maybe even allow us to change what the menus are called, and what they contain. Honestly, how often does "Help" get used?

I do like the Xfi series, its good stuff and I would like to use something like this contraption to beef up the audio on 2 macs. I've had a look at the pics and the site, and it appears that this thing can run independantly of USB--with the included AC cord, which makes sense to me, and that would make it possible to plug this thing into an audio switching hub for a set of speakers used with more than 1 computer. Does that seem right? Or do I just want to think it can?

Anyone missing some coffee table doilies? If you are, have a word with Judge Judie.

I agree that we need to keep the election as legitimate as possible. Diebold has blown this, and they need to go. I'm all for a less than digital voting system. There are far too many risks with Diebold.

@Luke
If you think it's hard being a Poli Sci grad student and have to listen to some Anti-American Partisan trash, come join the expat community with me and hear some real Anti-American fun. No sympathy here, and don't even try to throw last semester's reading assignments at people. If you honestly believe that there is no corruption in US democratic system, then you just aren't paying enough attention.

Blu Ray is a mess. There are massive shortages of the components necessary to make them, and the price is entirely too high to fit into a standard consumer computer. HD DVD, on the other hand, remains cheaper but when if it comes down to size, Blu Ray is leading that right now. TDK is developing discs with very large capacities, but thats not to say that they have any edge whatsoever. It's too early to call.

As far as Apple not wanting to leave their customers stranded, well, that argument is best summed up by those of us with Pre-2004 G4 computers, a new ipod, and a Firewire connection. This leaves me with USB 1.1 and a connection method no longer supported that they Apple developed. Sucks.