What load of crop.
First of all GolferTrav is right.

Second of all:
Where is the register for the Time Capsules that still run fine?
Of course the average age is about that amount of time. Because that's about the time it has been out. Duh.

Another example of brain dead hysteria on the internet.

Sorry, but this "open" claim has become a farce and companies understood very quickly how they can use these kinds of words, which are signs of our time, can be used for their marketing.

What Palm does has nothing to do with a revolt against a monopoly.
Their claim that they are pro choice and that customers should be able to do what they want with the content they own is, plain and simple, marketing bullshit.

YOU ARE FREE to do anything with your iTunes+ MP4 AAC files within the copyright law.

You are NOT FREE to use any other device with Apple's OWN software.
You can, how every, use YOUR SONGS in other software and on other devices.

What Palm does is trying to sell customers a function, a software and an infrastructure, for which they didn't work for, for which they didn't invest one cent. In other words: steal Apples work and inventions.

Apple doesn't have a monopoly on anything.
If you don't want Apple and the iTunes store: buy a Samsung and buy on Amazon. Buy a Blackberry, buy on Amazon. Get a Napster subscription. Buy on MusicLoad. Buy a Walkman. Buy Zune ;).

Really, I hope this bs support of Palm by some people stops. I can't stand it anymore. It's bullshit, it's unfair business / shady business. It's bad for the market and bad for the customer. Just like the new wave of crappy PC running hacked Mac OS.

One question:
What do you think would BMW say if a company would buy BMW cars, rip out the engine, reverse engineer them and put it them their cars and resell them again with the claim: BMW motors inside.
I know, I know, it's a lacking example, but this is kinda what it is:
They STEAL technology and inventions from a company and make a profit out of it, by advertising that customers can use Apple's infrastructure, WHICH APPLE has to pay for.

And btw., from Apple's perspective of customers experience it's a nightmare: Some other parties customer opens an iTunes account, they buy content from Apple. What if something doesn't work, who do you make accountable for?
The customer might think: „F*ing iTunes thing broke again, music doesn't go on my Palm / whatever. This software / store / stuff is bullshit. I'll never do it again.”

Nice, huh.

They could have just written their own software which syncs your Library to your Palm. What a lazy excuse. And I always was a big fan of Palm. Until they started to make piss poor devices and POOR SOFTWARE, or in this case NO SOFTWARE at all.

All pretty nice. Until I read that it's 16:9.
Who's idea was it to push 16:9 for computers?
So that 16:9 movies don't have a black bar we now have to give up space?
I need to edit videos, not watch them on my computer.

DisplayPort is nice, though. No more feeding Sony with money.

Wow, TN Panels. Awesome.

And then 16:9.

So awesome. Less space for more money.

Why the heck do computer screens have to come with tv ratio?
Aren't you supposed to CREATE the tv material on a computer? And for that I guess you can make good use of more vertical space: display full HD content plus required controlls.

But, that's just my oppinion.

No, Apple already has a multitouch glass pad.
And that actually acts *functionality* and *usbility* to the computer, opposed to this, in my oppinion gimmicky nonsense, which doesn't help you at all in productivity. A stylus? Seriously? A stylus? :P

But, hey, there's some people who might need this. Good thing about the free market: there's a lot of niches there to fill.

And dismissed it.
Who wants a stylus?

I kid, I kid. Don't flame.

:P

Another rip off by NVIDIA.
On any platform.

Just different video drivers. That's all you apparently get.

Agreed. Stock shit.

And btw.:
This is stealing Apple's work.
They make Software. And they make their own computers to make that software run better.
And when you look at the DIRTY cheap price of the Software Apple takes, you see how your are given back a lot of that what you laid down for you computer.
100 for OSX. Flat. NO Ultimate edition.
79€ for iLife. Laughable.
Final Cut Express 199. A joke ...

And these guys just want to make money from the work of others.
They DID nothing for all they sell to you.
They take stock market hardware and take the OS others worked for.
The whole point of "uh, you buy a Mac OS license, so it must be legit" is bullshit.
The price of a 129 for OSX is not supposed to be a "free market" price.

@JamesR87(??):

What proprietary connections?

For Windows and Linux only?

Wow, so it checks for Mac OS and then refuses to work?
Bold move.