Magnesium on the top, but plain old plastic (mylar) on the bottom. Turn it over and it looks cheap. Why not an all magnesium case?

Like the Kindle, Barnes and Noble uses a proprietary DRM solution. So once you've bought books from them, you're stuck with their devices forever. This is the biggest problem I see with the Kindle as well. Personally, I like Amazon, but I don't want to be married to them. Sony apparently will sell books in the ePub format - which is supported by the iRex. I don't think the Kindle can read ePub documents.

I just want the option to change my mind later and still be able to migrate my already purchased books to any new device I desire. Apparently, vendors prefer to lock you in.

But its so damn ugly!

Superlight? My first generation Miata was lighter than this thing. Cars keep getting heavier and heavier.

One more test. Andy Ihnatko has been testing the MiFi with an Eye-Fi card in his digital camera. You snap a photo and it's instantly uploaded to your Flickr site. I'd love to hear more about this experience.

Has BlackBerry gotten around to the basics yet? My current one can't even provide an audible notification of voice mail. How lame is that? And please don't bring up Blackberry Alerts. Why should I have to buy something extra to cover Blackberry's shortcomings? It's like RIM has decided the "telephone" feature is low priority. Case in point: if you let the battery die, the Blackberry turns off the radio to save battery life. For what, I don't know. Again, to me, it's primarily a telephone. But even when the device is recharged, the radio is not automatically turned back on. I just don't understand their lack of concern about the telephone features of this device.

In my mind, anything over 10" is no longer a netbook, but a notebook (or even a laptop). A network is small and inexpensive. Period. It doesn't have run a particular processor or operating system. Ultimate portability is what designated a netbook to my mind. Talk of a 12" netbook is ludicrous.

Being sold to "carriers". So that means the $200 device comes with a 2-year commitment to a data plan?

Restrictor plate racing sucks.

Why does every new car have to look like it just came out of a Buck Rogers movie? Does every car have to look like it's going a million miles an hour even while parked?