It's Alienware of course it's ridiculously overpriced. I'm saying that I would like to see Apple put out a product that has capabilities of a Hangar18, instead of just play video from you computer. The point is that it currently is a half assed media center, why not just make a media center.

Apple TV w/250GB
DVD slot drive
TV Tuner + DVR software (ability to transfer recorded material to computer and be able to stream to a 2nd users computer if someone is using the main TV)

for $499 or $599

@Mike

I see your point. Yes books were around before formalized capitalism. But books produced to turn a profit since capitalism existed would then be products of capitalism. Any book since the creation of copyright law is a product of capitalism because copyright law is nothing but a law that protects a creator's rights to capitalize upon their creation. I don't know the answer to this, but did Karl-something hand out all of those books for free?? As we look into history lets not forget that the first book to be created by the printing press was the book for the first known corporation, the catholic church.

"What's more, we ought to consider books to be nothing more than a means to the end of transference of knowledge."

I find this point interesting because can't the same be said for the new digital media players?
Print is and was just technology as "a means to the end of transference of knowledge" or art. But, now welcome to the new digital era where analog is beginning to be replaced with all things digital. We have things called eBooks and eBook readers serving the same purpose as print, but that allow people to have many more works in the palm of their hands. The same thing with PMPs, it wasn't fun carrying around a big case of CD's around with you to listen to your music. It just the new technology for being able to hear/receive that recorded/transfer of knowledge and art. I know many people that use their PMPs to listen to NPR podcasts. What about people that vision problems that then listen to books on tape/cd/digital file. Or people that are so busy that they listen to books as they are commuting to and from work because it is the only time they can. Print to digital delivery is all the same thing; it is a line of technological evolution in order to get the recorded knowledge/art to people that want it.

not really. i find hypocrisy and elitism and fake intellectualism quite dumb and annoying.

how about the fact that he told the person to go read books.. which are produced and sold by corporations just as much as anything else in this world. Even if the person were to go out and get a book with all the differnt kinds of books that exist, just like music, its very easy to read books for the rest of your life and still not really gain any knowledge. The the book industry just like the music and film industry is full of fluff with the important intelligent pieces of literature in the minority.

The person who wrote this is a idiot. a PMP is just the delivery medium for an artists music, much like how publishers purchase paper from corporations to print books. Is this guy gonna go and protest paper?!?! Maybe the girl would have been listening to socially aware music, maybe not. But the person who pulled this stunt should stop looking down on others from over that high held nose and do something to "The Man", as he sees it, and not the worker ant. While he's dissing others for wanting "capitalist garbage" I find it funny that the guy used some abstract ransom/heroine font and printed this "independent free thinking manifesto" off of a computer.

What a douche!

starbucks has the same thing going as Tmobile with the "starbucks green".

Sure Mossberg slipped in a sucker punch with "All the iMacs come with a better operating system", but it doesn't matter if Mossberg is an Apple Fanboy or not. The specs and price say it all, and they are saying "rip off". The only thing that it tops the Mac in is HD space... and personally I'd be buying a secondary external backup drive anyways. You know people are getting spoiled beyond belief when they are concerned about using up all 320 GB of HD space for a non Pro machine.

i appologize i read the abstract that was linked but didnt watch the movie before posting...definately cool.. but in terms of practicality for large holographs the projection using vapors is much better than this, but my no means am i putting this thing down.

I agree this is awesome... one step closer to Star Wars... busting out the Tie Fighter diagram was brilliant.

Almost 3 years ago I read an article about a system much= like this... but that system had a built-in humidifier and used the moister vapors to project onto.. does this system use vapors or anything as its canvas?

wow.. and i thought that clamshell inspired iCar was fugly.

and a relatives tripod while they were at it.