I've never met an Apple mouse I've *liked*. Pass.

Oh, come on. He's HOT (for his age)...

I certainly wouldn't kick him out of bed. ;)

Brando! It's got what SATA HDD's crave!

Throwing my hat into the ring for these speakers. :)

It's actually *great* that they are doing this with desktops. There are MANY reasons a machine like this could be useful. For example, my main PC is a 2.4ghz C2D (E4500, I think, I'd have to look it up. It's been over a year since I built it.) with a 9800GTX graphics card. 85% of the time, it's sitting idle with Yahoo!/MSN Messenger running (it's the primary means by which a good part of my family communicate with eachother). It'd be awesome if I could power that thing down and just leave one of these "Nettops" turned on.

Also, I'm exploring ways to cut my energy bill, which has included adding solar to my house. I've built a 18w solar panel (just to say I can) and I have a 100w panel ordered. I'll be adding as I can afford it. At any rate, for people who are already "off the grid", or are trying to cut their bills down as far as possible (those with solar installations that only cover a portion of their use), this would cut it down even more. Then there are people in remote areas with limited solar/wind/other that, while they may not have internet, they might wish to write (a book, do some paper work, whatever) on something with a screen bigger/keyboard nicer than a laptop.

Also, my nearly 80 year old grandmother wants a computer. There's no way she'll put even a machine like THIS to full use (She's so vein, I have a feeling she just wants to show it off to the other old people like she does with all her silly antique furniture and I doubt she'll really use the computer I'm giving her to use at all).

The students on campus (where I work) are expressing concern at the 3000+ desktops we have on campus, the majority of which stay on 24/7 (except during the summer and some of the longer breaks) and want ITS to explore lower power alternatives. MOST of what is done on the campus lab computers is Word/Excel/PowerPoint and a few other VERY low CPU use software. These machines would be perfectly acceptable for such use, and would cut our energy bills down significantly (if we swapped enough of our machiens for these). With us facing a possible 15% reduction (minimum) to our budget this coming year, this could help a good deal.


etc, etc, etc. ;)

@Del Hass

Read the story again. It does not use USB for the graphics data. It uses a "proprietary 4.0Gbps PCIe 2.0 connector."

It just happens that the device supports USB ports.

Some carriers (US Cellular, for example) do not charge for incoming text messages (USCC even has a spot on their web page that allows you to send texts without charge). Sprint, on the other hand, charges me 20 cents for each incoming message, which pisses me off, and the CSR told me there was no way they can disable incoming texts because Sprint will occasionally send you texts (it's also how they send your password(s) to you if you use the "forgot password" link on their web page). At least they don't charge for texts sent FROM Sprint.

This is one of the reasons I'm looking at switching my current plan from the unlimited incoming 500 anytime minute plan to the 500 minute SERO plan...

This definatly is not "yet another varient of Windows". It is Windows 2003 with heavy modifications. I, also, am beta testing WHS, and like it for the most part. I think it should have had another round (or two) of beta releases, though. As of the current beta, there are still quite a few problems. To me, it seems very much like they are in a hurry (for who knows what reason) to release it. I thin it's a huge mistake, but we'll see what it looks like once released.

That isn't a "car". It's a three wheeled motorcycle with a wooden structure built around it.

Being it can only reach about 50mph, I'd say it's a heavy wooden structure, or a very weak motor.

BOOOOO all the way around.

To top this guy, I'm going to go buy the frame for a car and, instead of putting a body on it, I'm going to build it out of wood. Bah.

You *do* know what company you are talking about, right uncle? This is Packard Bell. A (once) computer company that had such a horrible reputation in America that it folded. What did you expect them to do? They aren't creative enough a company to come up with something different. (Kinda like Microsoft...)