I have a PS3 and a PSP so I'm not anti Sony... BUT

What the heck is going on at SCEA?
Is everyone there deaf, dumb, and blind?

it is so depressing watching Sony kill this console (and themselves.)
Sony Corp, apparently, has some social disease whereby anything that passes through their 'hands' turns into a disaster, a catastrophe of such epic proportions that the only thing most decent people can do is turn away (while less noble souls mock consumers of Sony products incessantly.)

IBM and Tosh ought to be grateful that the company is out of the Cell, anything they can do to distance themselves from this 'lepper."

The PS2 was, and is still, only defined by one word, success.
But that success is long forgotten in no small part thanks to... everything Sony has done since the PS2.

The PS3... everything from marketing, to the lousy physical dimensions and excessive weight, power consumption, over done technology, to the actual games (as if there were any), just plain sucks so hard, so very damn hard.

The PS3 is best known for -
No games,
Ridiculous price tag,
Technology that the market largely doesn't care about (BD),
No GTA IV exclusive (hence no reason to buy at all)
And, finally, a corporation that is clearly committing suicide in plain sight of everyone (exploding batteries, overpriced Windows boxes, DRM 'rootkit' nightmares, withdrawal from the Cell processor, and finally the most expensive, entirely game-less, next-gen platform.)

Imagine, Sony couldn't even get Grand Tourismo HD on the shelf within a year after this consoles nosedive onto the market. Grand Tourismo is thier own damn game... it is such a poor corporate response to customers, they way they've released the PS3, that I am tempted to think it is a cruel joke.

I know, I know, there is nothing as common as potential, wasted.
This company (Sony) should adopt this phrase as its slogan.

'Welcome to Sony, where there is nothing more common than potential, wasted.'

I know this story was about IBM, but see what happened -
half or more of the posts were about Sony.

I bet IBM and Tosh are happier than can be that Sony is going away and taking its self destructive, profit burning curse with it. This must be payback for the hundreds of millions of over priced consumer electronics they've sold the world.

@mattclarke - You are a moron and I'm not a hippie. In fact, I don't like hippies because they smell bad and are lazy, but that doesn't change you being a moron.

"not everyone needs a $2000 white box" - true, but if they made the size of the case 2 or 3 times larger than it needs to be, then labeled the PC as 'green' then they ought to be shot for it.

I don't know about technically speaking, but the higher dpi mice track much faster and more precise. So, I'd guess it is not a myth

I'm pretty sure you can't do that unless there is software support for it from Apple, which there isn't, yet.