@mcornett - obviously your a typical mac fanatic who will defend the mac regardless of reason. You acknowledge that a defrag does help and that the 'black screen of death' does happen. The point that the mac doesn't come with a defragger is not something you should be boasting. For some reason you think that osx doesn't require a defragger because it's going to slow down the system by moving core system files is absolutely bollocks. Do you think that the OS will only access system files and nothing else? If you prefer to have a computer full of fragmented user files then I pity you.

@Tecetorbes - I've been a mac user for over 15 years now and I currently use a mac at work. However, I've always considered that PCs are superior due to their flexibility and that's why I choose to use a PC at home. Contrary to what you may think, Macs are just PCs in a nice case. All the components are off the shelf parts with a few proprietary bits added on by Apple to make you stay with them for servicing. Now, even the CPU is a PC part and you can even run Windows on a Mac. Therefore, there isn't any special reason to criticise the PC hardware or it's users / OS.

As for Windows being slow/clumsy and crashing all the time, I'd like to point out that my Mac (Dual 2Ghz G4 running OSX 10.4) also has a lot of issues, including crashes (the 'black screen of death'), problems with permissions and it doesn't even come standard with a defragger. It's generally slower than Windows XP at booting and shutting down. It's constantly being patched through security updates (like Windows) and virus protection is virtually non-existant. Yes, Macs are generally free of virus attacks but it's not invulnerable so prevention is better than being being caught with your pants down one day. I can also say that out of the Windows users that I know (quite a few) and also the die-hard Mac fans (some of my colleagues), PC users are no way any different from the average mac user. PC users are not any smarter or dummer than the latter.

I guess the reason I've never really 'switched' even though I am more of a mac user than some mac users, is because of this 'I'm better than you' attitude that apple tends to portray. If I had to make a choice tomorrow between my pretty mac or my reliable PC, I'd be running away with my PC.

My 2c.

@David, how many porno dvds have you purchased compared to how many you've downloaded? I think you put too much value on this one issue.

Wow. Some analysts really are paid too much.

@Drew, I don't think Sony is planning on changing formats at all. I think they just plan on making their own branded CF cards in addition to all their other Sony branded memory stick products.

I think the prices of memorysticks are now comparable to other media formats like SD, especially on eBay. The price was my only gripe with memorysticks but now that I can get them at reasonable prices, I don't have any issues with using it. To me, it's just a storage medium and I couldn't give a toot what format it's in.

Couldn't have said it better myself. No DivX, no buy.

@Jeff, sorry, the 'dribble' comment wasn't meant for you - it's was directed at some of the other commentors. The other point I want to make is that it isn't MS that's cramming WinXP into cars, it's Aopen and Mitsu in this case. They could've decided Linux, Windows Mobile or OSX was the way to go but they didn't so I can't see the need to have a go at MS on this one. I agree that a desktop OS may not be the best option for a car but it does offer the most options with third party software being so abundant. The only thing that has always concerned me about any desktop OS in a car is the bootup and shutdown times... by the time it's loaded, you may be at your destination. Having said that, I'd still like the idea of a carPC perhaps running a stripped down version of XP on a big SSD. Big it on!

@Jeff Foster, I'd like to see your response if it was apple doing the integration of a CarPC. I bet you have a poster of Steve on your bedroom door too.

CarPCs have been around before this but it was all custom made stuff. I think the 'catch a virus, BSOD, crash your car' argument is absolute dribble. Since when did a carpc control the brakes, throttle or engine management system.

No. I believe quite a few people have managed to install it on their AMD machines. :)

@OS4, Steve was very vague when he said it's 'runs OSX'. He should have said 'portable version of OSX' likes Windows Mobile. I think the techies would assume this but there's a lot of people who would think it's the full blown OSX and expect to do things like install office or photoshop and then be dissappointed. Maybe it's was a deliberate omission in order to make it sound better than it is.