It really looks like a pre-production unit.. I can't see them using that sloppy wiring in the finished product, considering every laptop I've ever disassembled has had pretty much every single wire wrapped in em shielding of some sort, often then wrapped in kapton tape.

There are clearly unpopulated ram slots just below where the fan is in that picture... If those aren't populated in the final retail version it should be, well, not-impossible to solder in a slot.

I'd have to agree with all of yous...
Seems like a ploy to drum up news...

Light apple's fuse then take a cruise...
Their clever ruse does not amuse.
I hope they lose and get blown out of their shoes.
Then pay their dues when apple sues.

iphone will never replace blackberries as a professional business communication tool... they're not designed to be. they're designed to be stylish and trendy music players and voice phones.

afaik iphones don't even offer push email, and absolute necessity in business... blackberries have amazing enterprise level management tools, like for instance your employer can remotely disable the camera on all their employee's phones as they walk into a building, or they can remotely upgrade the software and manage dozens or hundreds of devices at once if need be.. they have their own custom dedicated email servers which give professional level encryption and other weird enterprise level crap that large businesses require. blackberries have a full, tactile qwerty keyboard that people have spent half a dozen years getting proficient at, these companies have invested tens of thousands of dollars on blackberry hardware, blackberry software, and blackberry enterprise server licenses, their employees are maybe even given blackberry training for proficiency, their tech guys certainly are given training, expensive training, on the setup and maintainence of blackberry servers.
there's no way these large corporations are going to ditch their current investment and blow way, way more money on a less functional and more complicated device.

so what of your cellphone, wifi, and remote control cars?

does this device just disable those?

amd ♥ ati

if you read this website more than once a year you'd realize amd now &heart; ati... so we can no longer call them a canadian company.

(re: komo, kiro and king): what's ironic is those are all washington stations iirc... if you were to have unplugged your digital cable and plugged in a largish antenna, you'd have received those channels fine.

not exactly... the qwerty layout was designed so consecutive keystrokes would be spaced further apart, so typewriters wouldn't jam... not specifically to slow you down, but surely it's not designed for speed.

I dunno, the guy selling it is too sketchy for me...

His feedback includes 57 with him as the seller, and all of those are private listings...

The feedbacks mention mystery auctions, clothing, and "I wish I won, better luck next time I guess"..

The guy prolly got those 101 feedbacks over the course of the last 4 years by selling off random boxes of trinkets and old clothes... or selling empty envelopes with the idea that one has money in it...

Not exactly the kind of guy you hand $9500 to and hope to get an iphone in 3 months.

it could be useful for dozens of things..

sure, you aren't going to look at it while you're typing, or even really while gaming (though it'd be cool to have the keys as icons of the different items and actions etc)..

Think about CAD programs, photoshop, video, sound editing programs; Think about people who type more than one language... Think of all the times you forgot a keyboard shortcut... Now imagine you could hold ctrl and all the letters turn into "copy" "save" "print" etc.

People have already even started coding games you play on the keys themselves... There is even video support on the keys, (albeit 3fps or somesuch)

The possibilities are really endless