he's gone to grasshopper manufacture

engadgets readers are once again mostly clueless.

"i would rather buy 4 monitors"
"76k is too much"

you guys seem to think sony, toshiba etc make only consumer gear.

hell, sony has a 4k projector already, along with jvc...there are already 4k video cameras on the market, and films being shot and di'd in 4k....big money players. a few of these kinds of screens in the dailys / edit suits is nothing compared to the overall cost.

thats not even getting into fields that ARENT movies...

tsk. remember kids, read the article.

typical engadget reader - look at headline, picture, price....comment on crazy price.

Modbook pro - but netbook specs


slate style pc - metal casing
1280x720, led backlit
CULV / Atom dual core
touchscreen / pen input
NO dvd
3g / wifi
small, quick ssd 64gb is plenty.
THIN...all netbooks, apart from that new nokia are chunky things

hell, just get apple to rip off the modbook pro, put more reasonable (cheap) hardware in it, and you have a winner

what the hell is wrong with you people?

the hardware can decode a 1080p videostream, it doesnt matter what the output is, the fact it can do it at all is very impressive.

the screen resolution DOES NOT MATTER. its the internal decoder thats actually playing back this video file, the downres to the native screen resolution is a later process. the screen could be QVGA or QWUXGA...it doesnt matter, its the decoding process that the article is highlighting.

try playing back a 1080p trailer on a 1ghz pc and see how far you get, a netbook even....change your screen resolution and see if that helps...

if apple decide to do HD output via dock, then you will be able to output higher resolutions (granted, thats IF the display device has enough memory to output a 1080p frame)

no doubt the next ipod touch / iphone will allow output

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your all under the assumption it will be Atom 280 esque, 1gb ram, intel 945 standard netbook affair?

also, I wouldnt put this in the same catagory as your standard plastic 10" netbooks either, this is in the Viao P territory most likley. high build quality, custom components. not just packaging the standard *intel/ms component pack* (tm) into a different shell with a differnt logo.

engadgets readers have a 1 week attention span at best. and i must say, a heavy anti-apple bias.

pc laptops have caught fire, many times, lots of battery recalls too.

do people forget that?

its quite astonishing the lack of memory your readers have engadget.

I dont get it, why pay this much when you can build the same thing for far less?

raid card + 6 or 8 vertex ssd's....faster, cheaper.

why are you all fawning over this?

actually I quite like it, I used to love my old V70 though, and that got quite a few comments.

im suprised at all the negativity personally.

if it wasnt 2k, i'd consider it

some of you just dont get the market its aimed at do you?

its an 8 core workstation, you can put in as much ram as you want, and kit it out with a (limited) variety of graphics cards. you can connect it to external fiber / esata arrays etc for faster storage.

for comparison machines, look at Dell Precision, Sun Ultra's, Boxxtech, HP workstations etc, then the price starts to look a whole lot better doesnt it?

this is old indeed

we have been using these for months for our baby...spoon changes color depending on temp...probably found in every baby food corner of a store