Where and how does one buy an LG notebook in the states? And also, is that metal or plastic for the body of the notebook?

I don't trust film critics to be judges for everything that is filmed for us to watch. Firstly, there are way too many genres and the film critic usually has their favorite genre which is then judged in comparision to the film being reviewed.

I saw this movie and enjoyed it for what it was. I liked the continuation of the original story and the development of the story and where it took us. If one dosen't like this genre, you will not like it.

It is like expecting my grandparents to enjoy this movie. It will never happen. They watch Turner Classic Movies which are in black and white and they hate, I mean hate the color TV, and contemporary entertainment. I equate film critics to my grandparents when it comes to listening to their addice about what I should watch.

Asus W2W
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1834&l1=5&l2=23&l3=524&l4=26

Re: Michael

I listed my primary hardware spec's to note the fact it isn't that dated and is plenty powerful enough to handle vista ulitmate and my notebook did handle it just fine. Nothing is subpar about my Asus hardware and I consider myself pretty competent in regards to my computer and network usage. As I said in my original post, I had a problem with my network traffic. I have a lot of large files, graphics, music collection, movie collections (avi's, mkv's, & iso's) that is stored on my nas through a gig network. XP did not have a problem with my network but vista did. From what I understand from memory is that the problem is while playing any type of audio the network will prioritize the multimedia files first and slow everything else in the network and this is a "feature" that was added on purpose.

This was the "major" issue I had with vista. Not the drivers like a lot of other people since Asus has been very good about issuing vista compatable drivers (except for the GPU ATI x1600 which is ATI/AMD's shortcoming, not Asus's). I could have just re-installed my XP but, like you said, I too have read a lot of people trying out Linux so I gave it a shot.

Now, if people think they have a hard time finding drivers in vista for their hardware, on Linux Ubuntu for my particular Asus W2Jb notebook was a pain in the butt and I would not recommend at all for them to try it out on their notebook without first checking the web for similiar notebooks and finding out the success/frustration rate. But, as much a pain it was to initially setup my notebook, now that it is setup I am VERY happy about it and VERY happy that I did switch. I'm learning a lot of new things and I enjoy that but a lot of people would not agree with me on this issue.

Anyway, sorry but, I'm not part of some predetermined group trying to sway the public opinion one way or another. Just sharing my gripe, thoughts, and experience.

I have a 17" ASUS notebook from 2006 which has 2.0Ghz Core Duo CPU, 3GB Ram, 256MB (512MB shared) GPU, and I bought Vista Ultimate edition at a retail location and it cost a pretty penny ($390). Now, I will admit it performed alright and wasn't giving me too many problems even though it is very bloated. The driver issue isn't so much M$'s fault but as another has pointed out, it is SLOW over a network. It was unbearable and my home gigabit network was reduced to a crawl. Transfereing files took hours instead of minutes and my music collection on my nas kept slowing down during playback. Well, I was pissed. I googled the problem and a lot of other people had same issues. Sure, there was some supposed fixes by the user communities but it didn't work for me.

So, three weeks ago I downloaded Linux Ubuntu 7.04 and couldn't be happier. Granted, the linux setup for my particular notebook was a bitch but after it was setup, it is working great. Actually, linux and the command line terminal is what I really like about it. Very powerful (yeah, it was a pain to learn, almost like another language) and the free software (F/OSS) is very nice.

So anyway, Vista is what made me change to linux. I'm just pissed about the money I spent on vista and ms office.

What are the spec's for the number of write/rewrite time before failure (MTBF)?

Mars is missing it's protective magnetic field. The liquid hot metal core of Mars has cooled and stopped spinning.

ASUS awards for their products and in their design:
http://usa.asus.com/awards.asp

* 2006 1,303 awards won so far.
* 2005 1,706 awards won.

They can stand on their own.

Very nice. I have had the W2Jb model for about four months and I love my current machine. Now, this one is even better. I'm not upset about my purchase since I can always upgrade my core duo 2.0GHz to a core 2 duo later on.



On a side note, I also bought my girlfriend a MacBookPro couple months ago and her machine's processor can not be upgraded to the core 2 duo since Apple soldered, crippled it.

Very interesting. I like it strictly for academic study purposes (i.e. criminal justice). It could also be very helpful to jury selection consultants, the media during wedding cake trials, and maybe even as a argument during appeals. Saying that, I hope they decide against using this software as the primary judge during cases.