wow. what a surprising and depressing decision.

serato is essentially the standard. some people use traktor or final scratch (still?!) but serato is the standard for professional DJs who use a laptop in conjunction with turntables/cd players. DJ'ing with Ableton is super niche, yeah a lot of techno DJs use it but techno DJs comprise a small percentage of DJs overall (and not all of them use Ableton, like richie hawtin for example who uses serato despite being the original sponsor of final scratch along with john acquaviva).

Okay - whatever, I don't have one. It used to be US$300. My point is, it's been available in China for a long time.

I can only speak for china, but uh, the wii has been available all over china since it launched in japan. launching the console domestically doesn't make a big different imo because the console costs about $300 here (chip included & installed) and all of the games are of course copies. it's been this way since the wii modchip came out - before that only real games were available at retail price.

seems like a reasonable price for a relatively powerful computer which appears to be about the same size as a 5.25" DVD-drive.

that's hideously ugly. this isn't even news anyway.

Photos I took of the G10 today. It looks and feels much nicer in person than in photos.

http://www.djcharlie.us/g10/

tTe gp2x is a media player - this is an MP3 player. There's a big difference when you want to carry something around in your pocket with you.

I live in China, anyone want one?