QNAP's TS-239 Pro + 2*2TB quiet 5400rpm 3.5" drives+ mod lower rpm fan on chassis = Big WIN

This is nothing near a consumer device that you compare with 200$ish soho HD included NAS and it's plain dumb to compare this to a pc.
This is something aimed to a small-medium businness company not to home users to download porn and stream divx films.

According to Dr. Dev Mukerjee of Broomfield Hospital: "There has been a 100 percent increase in patients complaining of Wii-itis."

Well, according to me, whenever you move your body , doing physical exercise, it increase your chances to get an injury , it's obvious.

In my younger days when i was playing on the road with my friends it wasn't a a rare chance to come back home with scratches , bruises (and more i broke my left leg twice).

Playing Wii may not be the same but you can get some fun and moving our fat ass ,it's noting extreme but like every physical exercise does have a percentage of injury risk it as small as it can be.

so more people buy wii = more chances to get an injury =more injuries

We don't need a Doctor to state a obvious fact.

But can't sony allow us to jack a simple usb or wireless keyboard for home chatting?

@KilgoreTrout

I completely agree with you , my grandfaher grew grapes and make wine.

The problem about this "faked aged wine" it's that ,like many other chinese products, may be sold as counterfeit wine at the same price as high class wine.

It's good to see something new about touchscreens.

But what bugs me are those statements about the "so called" superiority fo capacitative touchscreen on resistive ones, i've used various touchscreen device both with resistive or capacitative touchscreen, and i don't see why, they've both pro and cons but not at the degree to declare one better that the other.

Even the multi-touch ,it's really innovative, don't take that in a bad way , but i want to see more implementations , i mean , my old iphone i've used multitouch, where? just to zoom in and out photos and web pages in safari (and in some nifty games) .

I have a parents that is visually impaired, yeah "blind" as you can mock about.

Even if i feel delighted whenever people try to make visual impaired people life easyer i'm very perplexed about this.

What's the pourpose of a fixed relief silicon layer over a non-responsive touchscreen that may display anything? i mean, it's not like icons, functions and menus are fixed on the iphone , the author and apple should work together to make a "visual impaired mode" (which i seriously doubt)similar that the one on OSX with voice over and larger standard and fixed icons , otherwise i don't see the point of this case.

And another thing is the waste of money , what's the point to buy a pricey iphone that rely much on our view to display anything when the key point that a visually impaired people need most is a cellphone that tell him everything is on screen to make him able to write an "listen" an e-mail/sms and make a call (much more easier and faster on a cellphone with keys,and it's obvious why). For example where i live our carrier TIM offers freely tim talks a symbian application that enable a "text-to-speech" experience on s60 symbian OS.

Sure, thare are better cellphone in this sense i was told there is a customized cellphone (basically a nokia smartphone)that other than that it can also read text from photo shoots, vocal and gps guidance with feedback in and from a special walking stick but just the cellphone costs 2000€

I never given much attention to netbook until i bought my Samuns Nc10 with 160hd plus 2 gigs of ram. I already have both a nice gaming rig desktop and a 17" notebook , both are surely more powerful than the nc10 but i'd never imagined to be able to enjoy the use on an ultraportable, i've never used my laptop to watch movies streamed wifi from my synology 207+ on my bed at night, to read e-mail and chat with msn in the kitchen or in bathroom (yeah i've done that) to use it on my tiny desk at the university without need a power outled for at east 5-6 hours (6 cell battery).

The performance surely isn't the same of a core2duo 2.6ghz 4gb ram like my desktop but i can use office,itunes,msn ,image browser and other background programs at the same time without problems, it's not a mutlitasking powerhouse but it does the job. I don't know why i have to use my desktop for these things when if i jack my netbook with a keyboard and the lcd screen does the same job with fraction of the power (30 watt or so) and being much more quiet.

The 10" 1024x600 feel cramped compared to my 24" 1920x1080 dell ,and the colours fidelity isn't the same but i find to use less my desktop pc and mostly for gaming pourpose and.


In the end people can enjoy the same ultraportability that 2000$ + ultraportables offered us 2-3 years ago without paying a fortune and who can't spend much money now is able to buy something all-in-one (aside of the optical drive) to do the basic things.

Or they just use a go-kart on a giant mouse-pad

@Ocean

Stop screaming you own an iphone ;)

Iphone was and it still be the first touchscreen phone with multi touch interface ( wow i can zoom with my photo manager and web browser with two finger instead with one finger tap, that's revolutionary) and that's all .
There was plenty of phones withtouchscreen, music player and full web browser , and i add with more functions, and more open ; those where just all the Winmo phones with touchscreen without a catchy design , but time ago those where just for "geeks" or "business pleople" and thus ignored.