lowdef, I am simply loving the hypocrisy :)

'it's a shorter game at a lower price." Shorter, cheaper... just an expansion, in other words?'

Have to refute that sorry, so Portal is just an expansion pack? The industry is moving towards shorter, cheaper, more episodic style gaming which doesn't instantly make them an expansion pack

Was that in any question? I'd say Apple are much worse about releasing information then MS are, and MS got slapped with a billion Euro fine for it.

And as for the article, this Mac lovers is why you'll never become popular, until Apple takes the finger out and allows you to use OSX on regular hardware and not their inflated rubbish.

It's Apple... and centrino 2 is new technology so it won't appear for a while and when it does I doubt there will be many if any physical changes to Apples lineup

I pretty much agree, design is meant to look good but almost just as importantly be interesting, brushed aluminium was new and exciting when Apple introduced it, it is now old, and very boring to look at, I mean seriously right now it feels that Apples development process is

find hardware -> wait 6 months for it to become obsolete then use it -> lock the user out of hardware changes -> stick it in an aluminium box with smoothed corners -> stamp Apple logo on it -> add £300 premium -> get drooled over

What the hell are you talking about Flashpoint? Do you seriously remember every second of each movie you watch? Where every little woodchip landed after being blown to smithereens, the exact colour code of the grey walls in RGB? No? That's because the human brain in fact stores very little information, we remember faces, clothes, body shape and major events and a few others, however if you actually took all the information and put it on a computer it would come out at very little.

A HD movie is so large because it remembers every colour, every frame and everything inside that frame, if I asked you to recall a room from yesterday I would place a large bet that you would not be able to remember more then half the stuff in there.

40GB UK version, didn't brick and have been watching movies and playing MGS4 for a large part of the day

DVD's still work in all good Blu-ray players...

OK, the only reason people are saying Toshiba needs to kick this in the teeth is because it is hurting us the consumers... the longer Blu-ray is held off the longer it will stay the more expensive option. It's the better platform, and keeping it away from mass market because Toshiba didn't like loosing the format war is harming consumer choice. If Toshiba put any work into Blu-ray along with a few other companies it wouldn't take long at all to have cheap, affordable Blu-ray players and movies.

And even if Toshiba want to continue to develop DVD, why not put this technology in a Blu-ray player? All they are doing is harming their customer base and consumers at large for keeping Blu-ray from mainstream.

The problem is holding onto DVD will keep blu ray prices high and make people even less willing to switch. If manufacturers begin to abandon DVD and put resources in blu ray we could have very affordable blu ray players very quickly, however Toshiba is refusing to back down and right now is simply trying to damage blu ray sales and uptake which is a little low.