I thought it was great for kids. I know you can get a lot of that content online and in strategy guides now, but back in the day, their Super Mario maps were the shiz-niiiiite.

My iBook G4 was under AppleCare and the logic board failed after two years. I got it back, shipped to my door after just a weekend (they were very fast with the repair), but I wasn't doing anything crazy for it to break. One minute I was using Firefox, the next I froze and when I rebooted, I got the black screen and fan whirring.

This sounds like an actionable defect if it's happened to so many people. I had a Toshiba Satellite that had a design defect and it took about 3 years for the class-action suit to finally get settled. I'd settle for some cash toward a newer model iBook with a longer warranty.

Jeez, where do the rest of your components fit?

Sega-32X form factor FTW!

I'd pay the few $$ more to do a C2D 6400 instead of the 6300. There's more headroom for overclocking. Mine is at about 3 GHz stable and the price difference is pretty small.

That's perfect since you don't get an HDMI cable with the PS3 anyway.

I'm not a PS3 fanboy by any stretch, but at least that console lets you use the same connection for the PS2 component cable if you don't want to go HDMI. I'm actually using that now instead of the HDMI and it displays just fine at 1080i/720p (my TV doesn't go up to 1080p).

Would have been nice to be able to use my GameCube component cable (which I spend about $50 on when they were in short supply) with the Wii, but it's a different connector.

$30? I just saw the rack where they'll be at Best Buy starting tomorrow -- they have the component cable priced at $59.99.