Shame on those with the disgraceful comments. Irrespective of whether or not you think Apple products are good or not, this is an individual who has a family - imagine how you would feel if someone was making disparaging comments about you or a loved one whilst ill?

Best of luck Steve, I think you might need it.

I was a long term player of EQ - nearly 9 years. I cancelled my account the day after Station Cash was implemented. Smedhead is a complete idiot. If I was Howard Stringer I would be asking him why with all the MMORPGS that SoE have on their books, they still have less subscribers than 1 game - World of Warcraft.

He just does not get the depth of feeling against Station Cash and continues to put spin on it. The man appears to have no morals.

You have got to be kidding me. The idea behind the Eee PC was brilliant. Stick a cheap processor, some flash memory into a tough little plastic chassis, run a free OS on it and bung it out of the door around £200. Sheer genius.

Asus have SO diluted the brand and the idea behind the name that people are now yawning whenever they hear Asus announce something.

Do something different Asus like you did with the Eee. Bring us a £500 with a £1000 spec and people would notice.

I actually got a 16Gb YP-P2 here in the UK. It was actually a nice little device. I say was, due to the fact that the damn thing developed a fault. Top left of the touch screen became unresponsive about 2 days after I purchased it.

I found the software that came with the device easy to use. When I first connected the unit to my computer, the software fired up and told me that there were updates to the firmware available. It was quite painless to update it. The unit can play MP3's, .WMA files, MP4 files, Ogg files, so you weren't tied to one particular format. Playback of videos was nice and smooth and the quality of the screen was excellent.

The FM radio was very good considering it used the headphone lead as an antenna. You could even record the radio as an MP3 too :)

Sound on the device was really good. Volume was bordering on the ouch level when turned up fully. The screen (when it worked) was responsive and you could use different UI skins. The overall size was smaller than an IPod touch. It seemed quite a tough device and well put together (said made in China on the back).

One thing I didnt like was that it uses a special USB plug, which I suppose is similar to the Apple products (why don't they just stick with the Micro USB sockets). The rear of the device appeared to be spray painted black and I think that let the look of the device down, since the front was a nice shiny black.

Overall apart from the previously mentioned fault, which I'm sure was a one off, it was an excellent bit of kit.

If I could afford this, I would definately have to hook up X-Wing V Tie Fighter :)

I actually like Bill Gates, I think he epitomises a nerdy programmer who has made good.

Balmer on the other hand worries me. As someone mentioned above, the picture of him and Bill is worrying. He has that mad psychotic axe murderer stare his eyes and looks like he is about to start giggling manically. His antics all over the internet in various videos tend to in my opinion to corroborate the fact that he isn't wired up correctly.

It will be interesting to see how Microsoft fares after Bill stands down and Balmer takes over.

In two minds about this one. On the one hand it is good to see discriminatory barriers being broken. On the other I distinctly remember reading some reports stating that they did some tests on this runner, I presume monitoring his heart, breathing rate, oxygen intake etc on a treadmill, against an able bodied athelete with similar times in the races that they run. The athelete with the prosthetic limbs significantly used less oxygen etc., not slightly but significantly I believe. This can only be down the the prosthetic limb - bear in mind in an able bodied athelete the foot, ankle and knee and the assorted ligaments/muscle body tissue all require oxygen and blood.

They all produce lactic acid which causes the muscles to tire and hence become less efficient. In the case of this athelete the design of the prostheic mimics (and possibly betters the design of the ankle and knee) otherwise he wouldn't be able to run. As it is artificial it has none of the constraints of lactic acid buildup so in effect he will have an advantage.

It was only a matter of time before the technology available, low weight and flexible composites allowed this. Quite amazing really.

As I said it is a testament to the fact that barriers are breaking down, This runner is obviously very determined and probably could run rings round half of us - he is obviously fairly good. How good though? Will he qualify, since after actually winning the right to compete on a even playing field he should then be offered NO further advantages. If he starts whining that because he has prosthetics his starting blocks should be closer to the start than all the other atheletes then he would have to be stopped from competing.

On a related note on the same level of anti-discrimination I look forward to seeing able bodied atheletes being able to compete in the Para-Olympics - its got to come otherwise it would be hypocritical.

Interesting graph. In an ideal world the 'perfect' graphics card would sit in the top left hand corner ie. cost $0, framerate 90+

Its interesting to note that there appears to be a 'sweet' spot on the graph with a number of graphic cards centred near to the Nvidia 8800GT, thats obviously where the market is I would suspect.

Nvidia really do need to look at what they are doing. Multiple graphic cards using thousands of watts of power, churning out all that heat and costing an arm and a leg doesn't seem economical. How about doing an 'Intel' and bringing out some multiple core chips with lower Mhz but able to multithread stuff.

Hmm, although I like Nvidia cards, this just sounds like posturing by a complete poser.

When Nvidia manage to crack the concept of Dual Core and Quad Core GPU's rather than adding more and more Mhz to their GPU's and memory, and reduce the power output accordingly - then I will sit up and listen. At the moment Nvidia seem to be emulating the Pentium 4 roadmap. Intel realised that it couldn't continue to ramp up the Mhz in these chips. Nvidia need to bite the bullet and revamp their chips in a similar fashion.

Wi-fi, 32Gb, Internet Browser as people have already mentioned. Then I would round off the corners a little since its a bit square. Slap in a few coloured options, Silver, Black, White, Red etc. Next add a small speaker and microphone so you can use it as a portable dictaphone. Give it standardised media formats (apparently you have to convert videos to a proprietary Samsung format!?!). Calculators obviously just been added, but how about a built in dictionary/thesarus. Add in a calendar facility that syncs with Outlook. Drop in a stylus somewhere and put a small scribble/note pad facility so that you can jot down memos and save them as pictures for later retrieval.

Oh and a stopwatch with laptimers and an Alarm function using the newly added speaker. If they did this it would replace a shedload of gadgets