It's way too expensive for what it is right now, but this is going to be an exciting area when light peak gets going. External graphics, any port you want... I can hope, right?!

@MidwestTechGuy

Agreed. I've always thought Engadget's reviews of audio equipment were rather lame, imho.

@(Unverified) WTF are you basing that on? Nothing, I assume. I've heard several different logitech 5.1 systems, they're all terrible. Better than not having speakers at all, but terrible. They never actually have surround inputs, it's usually just a crappy crossover feeding the sub. I'd take macbook speakers any day of the week, but preferably headphones that's where the definition is anyhow.

It is pretty good looking, and certainly any laptop could use better low end, but the macbook speakers do sound pretty great, especially taking into account that they're IN the keyboard. Always gets me how good they sound given that fact.

That said, I don't think:
-I could spend $80 on these
-I'd ever be somewhere where I'd want to/have space to set up a subwoofer and not either have my home stereo accessible or a nice pair of headphones with me
-I could spend $80 on this and not another semi-decent pair of headphones for traveling, or at least a pair of crappy 2.1 speakers.

Freaking sweet. I can't believe all those mods to such a tiny machine! A core2duo in such a tight space is gonna be HOT though, but it seems worth it for that much awesome in your hand. (

I have no idea what any of those replies have to do with my post. I was saying in the general sense of touch interfaces, irrespective of whether or not an Apple tablet ever exists. I dig the blocking of downranked comments, but the front page seems way too cluttered now I think.

As ridiculous as it is for them to do this, at least it's getting more dedicated research into visual/touch-based interfaces with the web in a non-smartphone sense. Half the reason (besides tiring you out) touch on a desktop is not much more than a gimmick IMHO is that it's just replacing the standard interface (mouse) with your finger. Better standardized formatting for different interfaces would be pretty sweet.

I really could care less about any of the updates they've pushed out in probably at least a year. Give me .MKV damnit, or at least support for NTFS! I'm freaking sick and tired of 4gb file size limit because they chose to use a system based on 30 year old technology. Or if they'd just unlock the hardware under linux, I'd probably never boot into the main OS again if it could launch games/bd's.

DAMN YOU SONY!!!

Sucks to their ass-mar. But still, several thousand iPod Touches are better than none.

"Yes, this does still count against the 250GB monthly cap if used at home and still no word on HD streaming, but within the concept of making content available to subscribers wherever they want to view it, this seems like a good first step."