@LAY

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Out here in the UMPC wilderness, there are those of us actually having fun with our tiny little "computers." I'm happily chuggin' along with my Fujitsu U810 (800 MHz!), upgraded with an ssd, a new wifi card and touch-friendly Windows7.

I am anxiously awaiting the transformation that will occur down at the local coffee shoppe, when the fruitcomputer crowd starts using the new Apple tablet instead coffee table sized things they are currently schlepping (with a light up Apple logo, how cute!).

Of course we have to wait for Apple to invent it, and most importantly figure out a way to charge you for every.single.piece. of content that will be displayed on it.

Charbux sez...right.

Amazon is a company. Some companies like to make money. Selling an item that costs more than most netbooks, is buggy, won't be updated after the next version comes out and gets returned...a lot, is probably not a good thing for the bottom line.

Also please note that the 250gb previous edition Archos 5 is also under review. Why? Maybe because the consumer might get the two confused? Or is because Archos has stated they won't update this formerly laptop priced thing to run Flash 10.

Dear AT&T,

I cancelled your land line and DSL service because I find I can use my old-fashioned, highly tetherable, unlimited data, WM cellphone and Google Voice to provide me with far better communications options.

As I obviously wasn't alone in my decision, you are now attempting to limit these options. Should you be successful, I would rather use two tin cans and a string than anything AT&T could ever offer me.

Kindly shove your "open, vibrant internet" up your ass, along with the fruit phone people from Cupertino, who's idea this probably was originally.

Sincerely,

Tommy Udo

As one who purchased an Archos 5 completely kitted out with DVR Station case, GPS unit and a few add-ons, (the price of which I'm too embarrassed to total) I'm unlikely to buy anything with the Archos brand again.

As an example, the only way that I got my GPS unit to function properly was to download a file posted on a file sharing site by a fellow Archos victim who managed, somehow to figure out that the North American English version of the software was missing a few things.

When I asked Archos support for help, I was told they'd refer the problem to someone higher up and they'd get back to me.

They never did.

About no aero on the Atom.

I believe it's the Poulsbo chipset. I'm running 7 on a Kohjinsha SC3 which has the same processor and aero is a no go.

And that's with the updated WDDM driver.

Those of us with this chipset have been grinding our teeth about this for months.

Now it's Intel versus Sony, FIGHT!

@happy penguin

Word.

They went an' gone Buck Wild.

This vehicle can't get here soon enough for me!

Now when I go to my local AutoMall, I'll be able to see the Buick, GMC, Saturn and Chevy version of this thing all within 500 feet of each other!

Decisions, decisions!

Lets see, you can have the top chopped off for $17K or put a bunch of batteries in hatch and make it a Plug-in for $10K. Hell, why not do both!

Careful over there at PiousChat. You'll end up smelling your own farts.

If we've learned anything from the "success" of the Toyota Prius, it's that otherwise normal, sane poeple will willingly drop upwards of thirty large on a small vehicle with a shtick and weird styling.

Shove a diesel engine (Screw the CARB, just do it) attached to your Two-Mode-Hybrid-Save-the-World transmission in it; or better yet make it a Plug-in Hybrid, and you'll sell all of them you can make.

Are you listening GM?

(Full Disclosure--I owns a Prius--I didn't pay 30 Grand for it and I love the stupid thing)

Six hundred bucks for the unit, plus a monthly subscription fee? Plus your cell phone bill?

I hereby propose every item of this type that appears on engadget be assigned a numerical value. Let's call it the "Date Devise Might Appear on Woot!" number. You could then establish a "DD MAoW index." Charts! Graphs! Fun for the whole family!