the internet was not designed to withstand a nuclear attack. thats been a huge ongoing myth.

read where wizards stay up late- great book on the origins of the internet

Acer's are truly terrible. Having worked in a retail store for 2 years, We've had nothing but problems with acer:

1) their hardware is garbage. on one laptop model(they use the same case for every single one of their laptops, resulting in buttons that do nothing) the cddrive would stop responding constantly. You would have to use a paperclip to eject it- then it would start working for a few days. This was on at least 3 laptops that we personally sold.

2) their preinstalls dont work. Both Acer display computers for windows vista would not complete the setup process but instead hang, necessitating in a complete reinstall of the OS. Needless to say, no other computer experienced this problem, even the e-machines.

well the thing is, nintendo has the PSP between two extremely well selling consoles. the DS, and the cheaper, more compact, and can play all GB games GBA SP. Then theres the extremely tiny micro. Square is still developing games for the GBA since you can play them on both the GBA and DS platforms, and their old rpgs dont need anything more advanced.

i work for a store that just got these things in. The speakers look like cheap pieces of garbage, and so does the entire rest of it. I broke one of the displays by just touching it lightly.

to #10:

What the hell are you smoking? Windows has had pre-emptive multi-tasking since Windows 95. I think it may have even been before Apple had it....wait, yes.

from Wikipedia:

"Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 95 and Windows NT1, and Mac OS prior to Mac OS X relied on this approach(Co-Op Multitasking) to execute multiple programs simultaneously. While its usage in modern computing is on the wane, RISC OS is an example of an operating system which still retains this method."

It also runs pretty well with 1GB of RAM. I can't say the same for IE though, which throws a fit if you have more than 25 windows open.