It's wireless charging... it's been done before, but has just never been commercially successful.

@Nick J:

This is the most hilarious argument ever!

"Micrsoft's new series of ads are condescendingly smug at best."
"They way in which these statements are thrust at the viewer, makes it seem as if the viewer is not intelligent if he or she does not feel the same way."

Did you even watch the Mac Guy vs. PC Guy commercials? Seriously, did you watch them? I can't believe you would even speak of Microsoft as condescending when compared to Apple.

"Macs are engineered to a much higher degree than almost all PCs. The PC that comes closest in build quality is the Sony Vaio, but even that is still behind. This guarantee of a higher quality product is what makes maintenance costs for PCs nearly three times higher than that of Macs."

PC hardware is also engineered to a high degree. It's engineered to meet open standards, not privatized and proprietary, as in Apple computers. Apple products are engineered to work specifically on a few variations of hardware.

So, let me get this straight: As an engineer, you're telling me that a system designed to work on, say, 3 sets of hardware is better engineered than as system working on nearly infinite combinations of hardware? Most of the time just as good as the Mac? As a computer engineer, you're telling me that you don't believe in interoperability and open standards? An engineer is saying this?

Dude... seriously... you're one crackpot engineer.

@P.A.C Man

"In my experience, Mac apps are just better designed."

It's funny because nothing you said afterwards actually enforces that Mac apps ARE better designed. iTunes is a computation hog equally on both PCs and Macs. OK, Handbrake gave you MPEG-4 quality instead of AVI... which makes it better designed... how? And how does the ability to delete an app by moving it to the recycling bin make it better designed? So you can accidentally delete programs you've installed?

"I don't understand why people keep clinging to that "Macs won't run your software" myth. Macs now run MORE software than PCs."

I guess we'll just have to change the myth from "Macs won't run your software", to "Macs will run your software... just not as well as a PC".

I think that since the iPhone came out, I've seen an advertisement for it every single time I've watched television.

I saw the television ad for the BlackBerry curve for the first time about 4 months ago, and haven't seen it since. The only other time I see a BlackBerry in commercials is from carriers, when they are thrown in with a bunch of other phones.

I don't think that a customer satisfaction survey has much to do with it.

Sure, Apple has JUST released the first iPhone. RIM has JUST started (really) trying to advertise to anything but business.

@giuliop
"It baffles me when people don't realise that while Vista may be "working" now, it does so very inefficiently"
It's an operating system with better security, better graphics, and better features. Why would you expect this to run just as fast as XP? Are you dense?

"the interface is a horrible mess"
And you're going to tell me that XP's interface was all glory? Tell me, what kind of sense did the Control Panel layout make in XP or the previous versions?

Yes, one of the largest changes to Vista was the reorganizing of pretty much every setting. But this was a much needed change. It's not actually more confusing or less intuitive, you just think it is because you were so used to XP/200/98/95's layout. Which, by the way, was nearly the same for YEARS and still didn't make any sense.

Honestly, most people who see Vista are at odds with themselves. They think "I know XP, I should know Vista and be able to use every feature the same exact way!" Well I'm sorry, but that's not the case. Things have been changed, for the better. And since you were so XP-ified, you need to learn how things actually should have been laid out from the start.

"When they create cigs that don't smell and don't cause health problems, but have the same relaxing effect as the cancer sticks we have now, get back to me. I'd be all over those."

Four words:
Portable Vaporizer
Mary Jane

Problem solved.

"That's what the first "mojave experiment" ads were supposed to do. That was the right move. Leave it to Microsoft to F*** it up and abandon it."

Those mojave ads were pretty bad. I'm not surprised they've abandoned them.

Anyone who wasn't already using Vista had already heard horror stories, and these ads confirmed that the image they had been told was real.
Anyone who was using Vista felt awkward while watching them.

So what does Eye-Fi have to do with fidelity?
Then again, what did Wi-Fi have to do with fidelity?

I've used windows since I was young, and I honestly think Vista is the best Windows yet. But there are still issues, stupid issues, and you really have to wonder why something so simple won't work.

Case in point: I have the Windows Sidebar set up to run and appear on start-up, but it's always minimized (invisible) when I log in. What the hell? It's such a simple thing! Why? I ended up just shutting it down permanently because I forget that it's even supposed to be there.

With all of the versatility that Windows gives me, it still pisses me off sometimes.

So he doesn't like that you actually push the screen in "it's like a button" and get genuine haptic feedback from the touch screen... Ok then...

He seems to not like a lot of things.