I don't know if u have more oxygen and can make more energy per stroke u should be able to run at lower rpm- less friction...

I'm thinking that cold air is higher pressure. Other than that I agree with what you were saying, it's just that I'm thinking that cold air is denser and has more oxygen by volume.

OK but suppose that your car is warmed up (or maybe it is stored in a heated garage) and that the roads are clear. Shouldn't the winter cold intake air allow you to get BETTER mileage than with hot summer air?

Maybe your engine has to do less work to compress the air, increasing efficiency? Something like that? It seems counterintuitive to me that hot summer intake would be better for efficiency than cold air.

You guys have to wait until you see it in person. There are tons of high-end home electronics components that look great with matte finishes. The PS3 Slim is over a third smaller, is quieter, and is more efficient. Those sound like high-end features to me. This isn't like the PS2 which went from having a tray-loading drive to a much-cheaper-feeling top loading drive. It still has the slot loading drive. It still has a user-replaceable industry standard hard drive, integrated wifi, etc.

I am a little puzzled as to the true motivations behind removing the Other OS feature. Maybe hackers are getting too close to unlocking the hypervisor restrictions?

Was that a Joseph Conrad literary reference? Ha, and I thought that asylum was supposed to be the Maxim of blogs.

Yeah I don't know what everyone is complaining about. Theres a front page article on Gizmodo complaining about the iPhone upgrade prices as well. Don't you always have to be ~18 months in to get the new 2 year contract price on a new phone? Thats how its always worked for me with Verizon. Which is why I always tended to get a new phone every 18 months. This time I was sick of there crappy phones so now I'm in the clear and can switch to ATT, so iPhone 3GS here I come. I realize that Apple will release an updated model in less than 18 months, and I also realize that my subscription subsidizes the purchase price so ATT is completely in the right to make me wait 18 months before they subsidize me several hundred dollars again.

What about support for new 7mbps 3G deployments? Has that been resolved one way or another? What about running apps in the background?

What you say is factually correct and it sucks that MSFT hacks are voting you down. The PS3 supports external USB storage and even better, uses standard laptop hard drives so you can go buy a commodity 2.5" SATA 500GB drive right now for $85 shipped and slip that into your PS3. MSRP on Microsoft's 120GB Xbox hard drive: $149.99.

This feature (being able to download full games) would work much better on a system with better storage options. Microsoft should stop being stubborn and acknowledge that they have more to gain by allowing their customers to fill up larger hard drives with the content that they are buying from them anyways. They should replace the proprietary hard drive caddies they have now with ones that have standard 2.5" SATA docks, or even just allow people to use USB hard drives.

Making it smaller wouldn't necessarily cost more at all. The original PS3 Cell processor and RSX graphics chip were built at the 90nm scale. Building at a smaller scale is a tradeoff between increase in manufacturing equipment costs versus savings in silicon used, plus the smaller chips use less energy and create less heat. Newer PS3s already have 65nm Cell processors which has greatly decreased energy consumption and heat creation. Maybe they have moved the RSX to the 65nm scale as well, which would allow them to use a smaller encasement that would otherwise have gotten too hot. They also have been talking for awhile about plans to move the Cell to 45nm.

Smaller case means smaller packaging which means savings on shipping and store floorspace too.

So smaller isn't always more expensive. The PSone and PS2 Slim were cheaper than their larger counterparts. Manufacturing smaller components had become price competitive, and smaller packaging allowed for the other aforementioned savings.

I would rather have this than the X6, similar utility with a lower center of gravity that makes the BMW driving dynamics and engine worth having.

Although for $70,000 I would rather have a 750i...