Man, if they sell this thing sub-$300 and keep it BYO-SIM, I am all over it! I'm already on T-Mobile, but I have no interest in a contract extension and am still waiting for a phone on which I can justify the $25 a month data plan expense. (I wish they'd offer a $35/month "family" data plan.)

@Gerasimos

Well, not on a PS3, but AirMouse will do that over Wifi on a PC.

@Noli

We just got a new pair of the 2.1's and they are dead quiet with no input. If you're hearing a hum, it could be that the power supply is starting to fail. If the amp gets too warm, it can cause the electrolytic capacitors in the PS to degrade over time. If yours is 7-8 years old, this is probably what happened. Replacing PS capacitors is pretty easy and cheap for anyone with some soldering experience.

@InlawBiker

No. The Cliq keyboard is much more cramped and it has no trackball.

Drop the price $100 and put back the FW400, or at least ESATA. USB2 is a terrible external hard drive interface.

@sorryIdontLIKEfruit

I'm in NE and I don't get it either.

Funny. My wife asked "How come they don't make..." PRECISELY THIS yesterday, citing how they used to have flippy WS/P&S DVD's.

I got one of these with a credit card ad. It's not a thumbdrive. It's some sort of weird HID device that mimics a bunch of keystrokes to run a browser and punch in a URL when you plug it in. Kind of clever, actually. I took it apart (naturally) and found a bunch of test points on the circuit board that may warrant further experimentation. Maybe the chip is also some sort of keypad encoder?

Why is Ion deployment in sub-12" laptops taking so long?!
12 inches is not a netbook anymore. 10.5, max.

I work on a college campus too. Much as I loathe Apple's changing of their video connector every other year, I hope they stick with this one a while, mostly because the plug does a really good job of staying in. The previous Mini-DVI connector had a horrible problem with the adapters coming loose at the slightest touch.

That said, we DO (for the time being) supply adapters upon request and it does suck to have to keep four different kinds in stock and keep track of them (G3/G4 iBook, Standard DVI->VGA, Mini-DVI->VGA, and DisplayPort->VGA). The previous university I worked at had a staunch policy of NOT supplying them for this very reason.