What we need is a 13-14 inch battery life netbook... take a 13-14 inch typical chassis but put a dual core atom (nvidia ion?) (9inch mobo) system in there, led screen, nice keyboard and touchpad and fill the rest of entire thing with high power lipo batteries like apple.

I think you could easily put a ~100Wh ~14v battery inside there, maybe more. I'd like a true 12 hours of regular use without a charge, and fast charging tech.


for most people it would be the first multi-day use laptop, like how nokia phones were before we got into "smartphones"

I know there's a market for someone to do this

I'm loving my Verizon Touch Pro 2, it's a global phone but it also has US bands... Rocking a Tmobile prepaid SIM in it, so if I'm ever in an area with no CDMA, I can switch to Tmobile GSM. Also, when I go overseas I can pop in an Orange or Vodafone prepaid SIM and get my roaming on.

I can't think of a more versatile device in combination with a great large touchscreen and qwerty slider...

This camera is terrible and very noisy compared to most point and shoots, I returned mine after 2 days. Major disappointment, but then again, it is a Sony.

yes, and for me it's better than RAID, it's called share duplication.

you basically tell it that certain shares you want duplicated and it makes sure the files are on more than one physical disk.

Why I like this over a RAID-1/5/10 setup is that I have videos and downloads that I don't really care about, and music that my friends have as well so I don't need to waste the drive space to have them duplicated.

Same with my PC backup files, if i have 500GB to backup from my PC, I don't need the backup to be on RAID because I'm willing to deal with the risk of either the PC drive or the server drive dying, but don't need to waste the space to stop both one drive from the server and my pc drive from dying at the same time. That's not too likely.

I have the old hp server and it's still great and much faster than most standalone NAS devices until you start spending more money on them than the HP costs.

SSD me!

What these devices are great for is turning off and on old Hi-Fi amps that don't have IR control.

This is great for backing up my 4TB WHS box, actually....

I've been playing with my latitude xt with windows 7 and all the multitouch and 7 is definitely a step above vista for tablet pc's/touch.

the on screen keyboard being multitouch is great, can press shift+a letter just fine (4 touches at once actually) and the IE features for scrolling are really nice but the zoom doesn't reflow right and looks kind of crappy.

I'll probably still end up using the pen most of the time, but it's a pretty decent touch experience and if added to more with third party support could end up being awesome.

Doesn't look that small...

I have a mogo bluetooth mouse that fits in the expresscard slot and doubles as a laser pointer/ppt controller.

I had a toshiba satellite about 5 years back that had a black and white lcd as the touchpad, was actually very nice, you could literally see where the scroll bars were, and if you tapped the upper corner, you got a calculator, media controls, and a couple other neat things.

it could even play b/w GIF animations as a background