I once had an earlier model of TouchSmart and regret selling it. It was a really nice PC. I want this one!

ink me!

Boom shakalaka, Boom shakalaka !

Yes, you now just flip the switch. It is spring loaded and you flip it to the right and let go. Similar to the Sony, but the Sony comes back in 1 second, whereas the Kindle takes maybe 10 seconds to fully come back? I haven't timed it, but it is danged annoying and it also only displays one photo from the set of screensaver photos each time. It doesn't rotate through them while in that mode like the old one did. More power saving, I guess. that is probably what the longer battery life is mostly about. More aggressive power saving. If anyone knows how you can make it stay on, let me know. It isn't in the users manual. Steve

Hmmm. I haven't noticed the entire screen having to redraw. Good question, though. It doesn't seem too painful to havigate around on a page or menu with the cursor, but I have noticed one thing; it doesn't always even erase all the old data on the screen when you pull up a menu. You can still vaguely see the words in the background until you finish what you are doing, then the whole page refreshes. Maybe they have figured ways to get around the full refreshes when it would slow things down too much. I will have to play around with it some more, though. I have only had mine in my hands for a couple of hours so far.

Jeez, enough with the price comments. It really gets old. On another note, has anyone at all remarked on the noisy page turning buttons? I just got mine yesterday, and while much improved, it has very loud buttons that click twice for each page turn. It would disturb your partner to no end in a quiet room. I also have the Sony, and it makes nary a sound. I also much prefer the Sony for staying on all the time. I can put it down and read a page every few minutes or hours as the opportunity arises, especially at work, but the Kindle goes into power saver mode after xx minutes, and the power switch has to be flipped and you have to wait for it to come back to life. I understand the battery issues, but it would sure be nice to turn the wireless off and set the Kindle to stay on all the time like the Sony does. Otherwise, it is almost useless for occasional reading like I do sometimes. The Sony just sites on my desk at work for weeks on end with whatever page I left it sitting on, and doesn't run down.

Need it, I do! Thanks in advance! A constant, faithful middle age reader!

My granddaughters photos would sure look great there! Gimme. :>

I agonized over this one, being a Sony buyer for decades. I have the TZ that was $2500 last year. Great laptop for my living room chair. However, for a cheap portable, I went with the HP Mini 1030NR and love it. Best keyboard I have ever used, and the processor is faster. With a 16G SSD, it was $399 at Best Buy. I now have Windows 7 beta on it, and it works perfectly. (It came with XP). Sony just asks way too much for this one, and doesn't even use the 1.6Ghz processor!

ooh, ooh! Pick me! Pick me! :>