Personally, I got a $70 "bench" from Ikea with 5 wheels and I can easily wheel the tv anywhere in the house. It also looks great.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10102197.

So I would Keep the SageTV media extender, the Jawbone, and possibly the sansa.. I would give the rest to starving friends in need.

I for one am whole heartedly against the barebones laptop concept. Really only cause I got burned by the idea a while ago.

I Purchased, ~6years ago, a ECS Desknote that was in the same idea similar to this one. The idea is it was a desktop computer but in a laptop shell so it used standard desktop Processors, Memory, but a laptop 2.5" drive. So you purchased it for like $700 and added everything.

Well I did but if you wanted a battery that was fine and dandy if you forked out another $120 but guess what, the battery was external. The battery was about half the size of the laptop AND just as heavy. so about 7 Lbs for the laptop plus another 5 for the Battery and it was connected via a 1 foot cable. and even with all that yes I did take it on Planes even though this Huge battery that would probably power a standard laptop for 6-8 hours would only last 2 hours because it didn't use low power "Mobile" components.

As another note the computer still works fine and has been through 3 processor upgrades but won't survive another since the ZIF socket is damaged (you have to push it loose with a Screwdriver and the little plastic push bar broke off).

Notice that the spec on the OCZ Laptop says its a 9-Cell lithium... the ECS one was a 16-Cell, Sadly since the output connector broke off on mine I can't use the battery anymore, I tried to Kludge a connector but the Controller on the battery doesn't want to charge it anymore anyway since I had to Desolder the batteries to attempt the repair. The PIC on board must have been holding something important in the RAM and when I took the batteries off It stopped working.

For those interested here is the link to specs on the desknote:
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/ecs-desknote-xp/index.html

I live in Florida. All in all, I shop at Best Buy and Circuit City a little more than CompUSA. We are going to be getting a Few HHGregg stores in the Orlando area which I am sorta excited about.

Really and truly, unless i need something right this moment, I always get my stuff from newegg.

Yep, I am sure there are plenty of kids like him that are in other schools that just didn't get the Engadget fame like this. So if any of those other kids who are like... I do this and I'm 10.5 ... I give all of you kudos as well.

and Remember
LH C:\Windows\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:123

Otherwize, you will only have 611kB of conventional memory which will not be enough to play TIE fighter installed off 6 floppies. Cause it needs 612kB.

"a small private school in Sherwood, Ark."

I think he might

Evidently we have another person who did not read the article and I quote:

"The school took advantage of a Microsoft effort called Fresh Start that offers free software upgrades for schools with donated computers, switching from Windows 98 to Windows 2000."

Please try to be informed and read the article.

Probably because they thought "Digital autoranging decelerometer indicator System" to be to verbose.

The only problem here is that the general public might see all the little green lights on back of cars and confuse them with the traffic signal and go when the light is really red.