bodacious; the 3430 uses the PowerVR SGX530. right now the only thing that does scare me is the Pre's inability to be a platform for innovative 3d games; this at least makes it a future potential. without a doubt, this 3d chip is how the Pandora manages to do fullspeed PS1 emulation. i'd be astounded if we DIDNT see OpenGL at some point, although it'll be an interesting battle to see how Palm integrates it with webOS. the opportunity cost of sealing off the emerging 3d market is unbearable.

Heh, it's the exact same Kensington as on page 2 of the MaximumPC article on "Wireless USB".

The DVI output maxes at 1680x1050.

I wonder what kind of range it can maintain 480Mbps at. USB2 is already slow enough for HD transfer, I wonder how comparable Wireless USB is, and whether whatever chip is inside can read a full 480Mbps from the HD. Theres plenty of 802.11 wifi routers out there now with USB ports that cant sustain a usb read anywhere near the 108Mbps the wifi is rated for.

I thought the chips had a 20GB/s bus between them. 5GB/s is crap.

Fact check: present server class Opteron processors for 4 way systems only go up to DDR2-666. Thats ~42GB/s. It can however support a maximum 256GB of ram. Phenom can support DDR2-1066, but that is single slot only.

Honestly I dont really understand. In comparison, its not really stellar: A single PCI-E 2.0 8x slot is 4000MB/s. A mid-range Intel chip will have DDR2-1066 ram, which is PC8500: 17GB/s, twice what this thing is claiming. A four way Opteron should let you get to 128GB and four times that throughput (68GB/s, 15x more than 4500MB/s). I dont know what kind of IOPS a Quad socket Opteron can provide but it cant be too far off 600,000. Given the 140,000$ you'd save buying a Quad Opteron server instead, you should still have enough money left over to add some hot-failover redundancy and additional capacity. Is there any reason a huge ram-disk wouldnt blow this thing out of the water?

The Macbook Air SSD is made possible because of the plethora of portable media players. Portable media players far exceed sales of all SSD drives combined right now; Macbook Air and this drive both have portable media players to thank for advancing flash memory to price points low enough for SSD. I doubt the Macbook Air had any real influence or impact on this drive becoming available.

@loosely_coupled: you are just making stuff up. the flash in this drive is almost certainly much higher performance than your media player; theres no reason to put high quality (read: high performance) flash in a media player when it just has to read fast enough to play a low bitrate movie. performance metrics aside, this drive probably does use the same types of flash as a media player. second, the controller on this ssd is certainly worlds advanced a media player's flash controller. media players just have simple NAND/NOR flash serial interfaces muxed directly to a cpu, this drive undoubtely has multichannel data access to achieve high speed data transfer, and the controller doubles duty by providing a standard sata interface / bad block management / load levelling subsystems.

The Wind uses Via's C7m processor, which has been around for quite a while (since May 2005). Atom will knock the socks off it, performance and performance/watt wise (encryption tasks aside). On the other hand, Via's new Nano/Isaih processor should be landing soon and should completely wreck Atom on the performance and performance/watt measures. But, imo, the Wind is a dud for using such a poor processor (it was slow way back in 2005).

Its showing now. My main gripe is that you can hit reload and engadget will give you a different view of the comments every single time. I've seen plenty of people post stuff 2-5 times because its so inconsistent. Your avatar is likely a similar deferred update issue.

Atom based, havent seen word on official ram capacity but it has one slot. Three USB slots. 1.3 MP cam. 3G only on the 11" model. Bluetooth. I still havent seen word on my favorite spec: display/screen resolution.