I have a logitech MX1000 bluetooth. Forget bluetooth mice. They suck batteries much more than the standard wireless equiptment. For instance, the regular MX1000 is supposed to last 1-2 weeks on a charge, my bluetooth model last 2-3 days. Also, the range is not that great. Bluetooth is supposed to work up to 33 feet, but this mouse seems to be more like 10 feet. Thats only 4 feet more than my 24mhz wireless MS mouse, which lasts 4 months on a pair of batteries. The worst part, however, is that the mouse does not work as a standard mouse. It is a bluetooth HID device. This is fine when everything works correctly, but if you have to boot in safe mode or the drivers get messed up, you can't use the mouse.

Its not distrubing, it makes sense. I go to Carnegie Mellon University, one of the highest tech places on earth. In many classes, using a laptop is pointless. People who use laptops in these classes use them to check e-mail and surf the web. Not only do these students not pay attention, but they distract all the people around them. Of course there are classes that require the use of a computer, and they are obviously good for homework, but if you are in Math class, there is very little productive you can do on a laptop (at least related to the course).

Old news. This system was new in like 2001. I haven't had a chance to hear it though. Its interesting that consumer audio systems deliberately try to distort sounds (with gimmicks like this) and charge extra for it, while professional systems (for recordings studios and such) try to have as flat a response as possible.

In case anyone else is wondering, the processor under there is a 2.5GHz P4, with 1GB of RAM. I wonder if it is worth trying to hack. Still, even with those specs, the processor and RAM probably make up less than $100 of the cost of the player, the drive is probably the bulk of it.

I owned a NEC Mobilepro 800, which had a similar form factor and specs to the old CLIO. I will tell you, it was nice to have something so small, but you couldn't do anything with it! It had a TERRIBLE 132MHz processor, so even viewing images taken on your camera was dog slow. The apps that came with it were half assed, Office was nice, but you couldn't use half of regular offices features, like having images or charts in word documents, or putting graphs into excel spreadsheets, or EDITING powerpoint presentations. Also, there were NO third party applications. The battery life was somewhere in the range of 2 hours. I replaced it with a similar form factor (but no touchscreen) ultraportable Toshiba Portege laptop that actually ran a REAL OS and had better battery life, plus a 600MHz processor. Recently, I replaced THAT with an even smaller Fujitsu P7010 with a 1.2GHz ULV Pentium M, 1 Gig RAM, and a DVD Burner. Buy a real laptop, CE sucks.