@Alfred

exactly, opening a new blank tab in ie8 is way slower than opening chrom + loading a new page. I think they should work on opening a new tab quickly first before adding stuffs to speed up rendering.

@Epsilon-Not Or even a full OS inside the chrome browser. Like current windows auto start chrome browser in full screen is your chrome OS.

If it is $50 for the device, a typical way to sell is $70 w/ the game and people don't mind paying for the add-on.

I really hope Google would jump out of the usual OS. I hate one fact that upgrading motherboards mean I 'll have to reinstall OS, and all my personal settings, applications, scheduled service are all gone. I really hope that individual personal items can be abstracted out like virtual machine that only contains personal data, apps and settings. So I can upgrade from one OS to another OS, from one platform to another platform w/out hassle. Google, please do something different other than the old way.

You are right, I am using t-mobile prepaid on my iPhone, navigon and tomtom type of gps are the only ones I am using

Not true, your ps3 can't play mkv, rmvb, etc

I also was wondering about the remote that comes with the machine, can it wake it up from standby? shutdown? hibernate mode?

How much does this model cost? I saw the base model from newegg which is $350, but this one has a BR drive, which I can't find where I would be able to buy.

asrock is better since it's 349 and it has a dvd drive and spdif out.

but then why wait when you can already do it for $50 more using AspireRevo? with full 1080p playback. When they are capable of 480p, the most they can crank out of that thing is 720p