@Tommy Five

I wasn't in the market, I didn't even know these existed. I walked by, saw a strange netbook I had never even seen reported about. The strange specs were what caught my eye. I'm cool with low-tech specs for low dollars, and there may be some users for it. I was a huge supporter of OLPC and even helped contribute to the project. This is useless outside of that realm. The mouse buttons are almost unusable, and the CPU is really tough for almost anything... the one in the store had WinCE. Linux may be better. My issue is that for developing nations, fine, but to foist already useless tech on consumers is just a massive waste of resources and added ewaste.

It's actually already out in the U.S. I was at a Kmart the other day and in the electronics dept. they had these sitting there but the kid had no idea if they were $149 or $99. I checked it out and it was terrible. The mouse buttons are insane, it has a 400Mhz Samsung CPU, and is pretty much worthless in build quality. They had 3 of them though on the shelf in the case.

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umm... most of us here are geeks... sustained light pulling is not really an issue.

Oh, how I do love the feel of cheap plastic, seams, and blocky design. I especially love the pinball plunger on the side, nice touch! I hope this is a prototype.

Ha-Ha! In the article the other day about Nvidia's big push for 3D Blu-ray I caught all kinds of flak for saying that *No One* wants to wear glasses to watch a movie at home for more than a rare gimmick. Everyone tried to claim that I was so wrong... well, let's see now... just how many "average Joe" fans were there who wanted no parts of it? Add to that the not quite sliced-bread popular Blu-Ray format... profit? No.

It is an ASUS X83Vm-X1. I had two details wrong now that I'm home (it's a 14.1" screen, and a P8400 C2D which is actually 2.26Ghz) everything else I had right and those are minor differences.

I bought an Asus 13.3" laptop with solid specs (~3ghz C2D, 4gb RAM, 320GB HDD, 1GB dedicated Nvidia 9600m) from of all places Best Buy, the only downside was that it is some crazy pattern/brown and no BT which I don't use. Total it was $899 and it has been one of the best laptops I've ever owned. That still doesn't mean my next won't be a Mac Pro for the actually pleasing color, backlit keyboard, and even better battery... but for the time I bought it, it was easily the best available for the money. They make good gear, they just need some design help.

I personally like the fact that the adapter costs as much as the entire system did a couple days ago. (Wal-Mart $100 gift card on $199 system). You're doing it wrong MS.

This. I sadly accept my iPod classic even though it is terribly inefficient for my needs in every way except for games (I enjoy Scrabble, Battleship, and Trivial Pursuit) and podcasts. It's basically useless to me for flac, video, photos, text/notes, or much of anything else. I so want to buy a different device, but no one makes a high-capacity player in a reasonable form-factor. I wish they did.

It's a 1.0 product. Guaranteed that keyboards (minus the computer) will go this way, it has to be if multi-touch is going to take off. No one wants to have to reach out and touch the display screen. I still think Wacom is in a great spot here, they make a tablet that allows multi-touch by hand, stylus drawing, and mousing and they win. They have all the bits, just not in one smart package.

I'd buy this in a heartbeat if it were just a keyboard and multi-touch panel and ~$100.