I completely agree - the colour choice is awful, tons of screen real estate is wasted, I hate having to click view replies and your + and - buttons force IE8 back to the top of the page.

@Okay
Agreed. If people thought vendor lock-in through proprietary formats (e.g. AAC, .doc, etc) is bad, they should have a field day with this - none of your data is actually your own. At Google's behest it can all disappear. On top of that, they can scan through anything you have; anything remotely resembling privacy becomes a dream.

All of this for what? Functionality that exists under ANY current operating system (they all have browsers), which you know, actually allow you to use your computer as you want instead of as a dumb terminal.

For the low premium of $500 on top of what you'd normally pay, you get to make use of the Reality Distortion Field (R) which will greatly improve your satisfaction without actually improving the quality of the product you receive.

"Grammar"

I'm gonna open a can of whoopass on Intel. And this time I'm gonna follow the directions and aim away from self.

@kojo
No. You've already wasted too much money on computer games.

Man, I'd drive the 200km down if the lines at the border weren't completely ridiculous. Wish Canada would get deals like that. Also, you don't really need the HDD to have a fully functioning 360. I have an arcade with 512MB memory card and it works fine - I stream media off my PCs and it's more than enough for game saves and the occasional map download.

The ignorance of the average person never ceases to amaze me.
A Watt is a measure of energy per time.
A Joule is a measure of energy.
Unless you're measuring how fast the amount of energy it generates per a unit of time change, Watt/hr is meaningless.

Except that it's an issue with Intel's firmware as opposed to with Windows. Good try though.

Then put Home Premium/Professional on it. No one's stopping you.

And Engadget: there was never any licensing restriction saying you couldn't put Home Premium/Professional/Business/Pro/whatever other oversion you wanted to on your netbooks; you absolutely could assuming you or your OEM were willing to pay the additional costs, which most OEMs weren't.
What you couldn't and still can't do is put Vista Home Basic/7 Starter on proper laptops/PCs (although I don't see why you'd want to).