Loving my Macbook's trackpad madly, I hoped this could be something similar for home. However, while the tablet works as well as any other Wacom tablet, the trackpad portion is relatively unrefined, very much in line with cheap trackpads I have tried on notebook PCs before.

Some of the downsides that eventually made me return the thing:
-as mentioned the surface feels sticky and uncomfortable
-the broad edge around the tablet means it'll be uncomfortably far away from your keyboard
-the active trackpad area is smaller than the matte surface and its edge has no tactile markings, so sometimes you just drag out of it and lose whatever you were dragging
-the trackpad cannot handle moisture at all, use after washing hands and the thing goes completely nuts until you have dried of every tiny trace of moisture (and I mean tiny)
-as mentioned already the pad cannot handle more than 2 fingers, so gestures are unchangeably different than those on macbooks
-gesture support feels clunky and as mentioned does not work in all apps. Usually it's just mapping to key events, so rotating/zooming is not smooth at all
-tracking precision is so and so. if you want to nudge something a few pixels, forget it. (the trackpad often does not respond at all to slow/small movements. If you go slow enough, you can move the finger all across the pad without moving your mouse pointer)
-you cannot change from pointing to two-finger-scrolling (and vice versa) without lifting all fingers off the trackpad first

All in all: Yes, it does what it says on the pack. No, it doesn't do it as well as I would have expected. The mixture of input modes is a gorgeous idea and I really hope they get this right in a future iteration. Make it slimmer, integrate the software properly and get the trackpad near Macbook-quality and this thing is a killer.
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So to summarize:
-HP do an ad that fakes miniatures by copying a technique seen elsewhere before to underline their "creativity"
-They use a nice song that is not released and not available for purchase anywhere, nor do they offer a download
-They are taken by surprise by the fact such an ad could go viral and rush out to swing the copyright hammer on every youtube upload out there to make sure, uhm, nobody sees it

Create pathetic.

@Dmitri: Sure I know how the plugs on my walls work :)
The front plug yes, that one is grounded. But the side plugs aren't.
That's simply because the cube-style device isn't large enough to accomodate the full socket. And that's why they'd need to be hexagonal Europlugs, not these ground-less Schuko variety we see in the photos. That used to be common in some countries but in most places has been outlawed as it should have been

While I guess nobody cares if you electrocute yourself in Russia plugging grounded plugs into non-grounded sockets, fortunately most civilized countries have regulations for that.
For the sides therefore you wouldn't be allowed to have a receptacle that can take full-size Schuko plugs, but in fact you'd need to have hexagonal Europlug sockets that are *meant* for non-grounded devices and don't allow for deadly mistakes.

But then again this proposed retractable socket won't fit inside the standard round pattresses used across Europe anyway, so we'll stay safe and get to keep our money, too.

Well, I guess 8 years ago that would have been a cool phone. Maybe the guys at SE should check their calendars...

I still don't get that whole multi-touch mania. I mean i get why the PC OEMs rush to it - Windows now has it and MS is going to push marketing money their way so by adding it they hope to get a piece of that. But honestly, is a vertical touch screen any practical?
The only ones that will really be happy about this will be those setting up POS terminals and information kiosks. Until now you had to sink serious money into those things...

PS: That means that of course anybody who wants to actively convert whatever VGA or DVI signal to DisplayPort, can do that and feed it into the iMac. It's just none of today's adapters are meant to do that and it's not just a matter of changing some wires but you need silicon.

A few things on the technical side:

-I don't think it's worth worrying about whether the maximum cable length of DisplayPort 1.2 is sufficient for living-room applications. There won't be any consumer TVs capable of displaying a resolution needing 1.2 anytime soon, so 1.1 is just fine for these connections

-One of the major advantages of DisplayPort, besides being cheaper, is that it's meant for implementation not just for external interfaces. It's also going to replace the currently prevailing LVDS connections inside notebooks and computers, meaning the display panels are going to support it directly. The result is simplification on the graphics chips and panels, meaning less cost and quicker time-to-market

-I don't think there will ever be DVI or VGA input supported as input formats on the new iMac. Apple only advertised DisplayPort input and that's what it is. For DVI output there's an added transmitter in the iMac and for VGA the transmitter chip is inside the adapter dongle. Neither of them is capable of receiving signals. However since the internal display panel of the new iMacs is one of those new ones that use DisplayPort internally - so the iMac can route through a displayport input to the panel. And only DisplayPort.

Well, apart from the peeling chrome plastic issue, unlike the B&W Zeppelin the iPod does not carry a drastic price premium over comparable competing products.
It's ok for a $20 T-Shirt to be made in vietnam, but if a $100 premium shirt is made using cheap labour halfway around the globe I feel ripped off - that's what this is about.

Sorry but the last large B&W Zeppelin I looked at in an Apple Store said "Made in China" on its back and the chrome plated plastic at the base was peeling already. Not really compelling, no matter what the brand image fetishists say