it doesn't quite run like a human. if it leaned forward it would be more efficient and faster. that looked like a fast march.

isn't brightness output of the projector and brightness of the reflected image different? maybe this is supposed to be a perceived brightness of a given size image, and as the image shrinks when you bring the projector closer, the perceived brightness of the image increases, so you would divide by the square meters of the image.

before you call me an idiot, I know that this is a ridiculous proposal, but I'm trying really hard to be optomistic about OLED projection. it just isn't turning out well.

Shave and a Haircut, please Josh, it's important for public appearances.

I just wanted to point out that the zune ad campaign is flawed, but not because of its semantics. assuming you rent music from zune for a maximum of 100 years (superhuman, I know), you get infinite songs and downloads, 12000 songs that have no drm (ie pass on to your friends, burn cd's, etc), all for 18000 dollars. 12 months x 100 years x 15 dollars per month = 18000.

That seems like a good deal to me, considering that I download easily 50 songs each month if not way more using zune pass. the model saves me money, and I'm going to continue paying for it for that reason. I have the musical world at my fingertips. I'm going to need a bigger zune soon.........

back to my rant though, assuming I downloaded 50 songs per month using itunes on an a la carte model, and songs average $1.10 since new songs are usually 1.29, 100 years of downloading music would run me 66000 dollars over my lifetime. that's like giving up a nice car and getting practically nothing in return except for 4 times less drm, which doesn't effect me in the slightest as long as I use my beloved zune.


its true that all itunes songs can be shared, but ideally, you aren't supposed to be sharing your music anyway. back in the day, you might lend vinyl, but you could never make duplicates and hand them out to your friends. the industry is just trying to greedily defend its profits. if the industry doesn't profit, it doesn't sign on as many new artists, and less music is discovered.

now, I challenge paul to argue with that. and yes paul, I prefer zune hardware to equivalent ipod hardware. I have a netbook and a zune, I simply don't need ipod touch's PDA functionality. when WinMo 7 comes out, hopefully I can buy a high end handset, a 128gb sdxc, and i'll be set for essentially all my needs excluding a computer and live television.

/rant.

@bigd145,
the housing market is almost as low as it can go, if now isn't the time to buy a house, then there will never be a good time to buy a house from your perspective. Florida's probably the best place to buy real estate right now, massive mark downs on property values likely to head north relatively soon.

I'm not reading MPAA articles anymore, I just will never purchase a movie again. torrents will always be there when the suits get too greedy. hopefully everyone agrees with me, and Engadget Ed's won't have to waste their time writing yellow journalism to spread the word about evil corporations. let the times deal with that.

I promise I won't sell it. seriously. I may, however, use it as a second, third, fourth, fifth,..............and 128th auxilery monitors. each one gets its own chat window. If only I had that many friends...

give it wacom support and I'd easily pay double. my holy grail is to have a solid 13" laptop for doing work, and a small and thin tablet for taking notes. overall, that would be cheaper than getting a slightly underpowered but uber expensive laptop for both purposes.

consider it: fujitsu 5010 is fat, x200t is expensive (as are the Dell and HP business tablets) and an x61 tablet is underpowered. however, a t400 and one of these guys (but pen enabled) would be fucking incredible.

do you spend all your time watching WMVs? That's how they tested battery life. 6 hours of straight video is quite impressive. you can tack on another 30% or so of all of the figures to get real world battery life. so, think 9 hours for the new MSI, 3 hours for the dell, etc.

This all makes me wish I had waited another two months and gotten a 1000HE for $25 less than my 3 cell HP 1030nr (as nice as the keyboard is, I'd kill for another 5 hours of battery)

netbooks are all about the net. the processor is intended to be irrelevant, because it doesn't take much to browse the web. Core 2 duos in 11" form factors are utter overkill. the Atom is plenty powerful for XP. ideally, the larger netbooks will allow for larger batteries, which would in turn allow for a decent amount of use unplugged. Any larger and I'm totally with you.

I suppose that any larger than this, and it could be considered a battery powered nettop. On that vein, why not give it a touch screen and a disk drive. and DDR3. and a giant SSD, and an HDTV Tunder, and...

If they shrunk the bezels on most netbooks, they could probably fit 11" screens. that would be sweet.