well according to the dell rep (live chat) it should manage around 3-4 hours on the battery with the su7300 (no ones realistically going to go single core) but thats without wifi active and I assume best case scenario on the 30whr 6 cell battery.

Personally I'd have happily taken the extra 18% in thickness for a decent battery life.

$500 for that!

Ok so this is basically any good os plus an autoloader for the default web browser to load fully maximised plus an interface/os that looks like a html page that most semi confident coders could knock up in a day.

You could get an archos 9 for $500 or wait a little while longer and get the eeepc t91mt for about $550 and they both have a full os running! Yes the screens are a little smaller but they're a full pc

or maybe it's a case of misreading the article.
God there are some complete idiots on engadget at times.

And I wonder why I'm going to places like slashgear and gizmodo more.

no network connection on a product aimed at enterprise level backup is a bit poor, especially considering the price.

so thats what the little image etc I keep seeing everywhere.

it looks more orientated towards use with powerpoint presentations than say gaming to me.

So if that is the case why is it only itunes and the iphone (and possibly ipod touch according to other posts on this blog) that appear to be having the issue? No other manufacturer of usb peripherals seems to be having these issues and they're connecting via the same usb ports and controller.

oh no it couldn't be anything to do with how poorly itunes (or any apple software) is coded for windows, it must be down to the new chipset.

when is engadget getting one?

Ok I have both xp pro (sp3) and vista 64bit (sp1) installed on my system. I haven't used xp in several months now and that was only to use a program that doesn't work on vista yet. After using vista on a regular basis xp just seems slow and inefficient to use, I also have a performance increase in most programs I use (they're available in 64 bit) so why would I want to 'upgrade' to xp.

Anybody who just gives it a couple of days use will not see any benefit as Vista is still learning your habits, the underlying basis of the os is different to xp and this takes a little bit of getting used to especially if you're not clued up with everything before hand.

Now I admit that vista could do with a bit of a nip and tuck around the edges, it is a tad bloated and 64bit codec support could be better (still end up using the 32bit player) but I wouldn't go out of my way to uninstall it because of them. The biggest nuisance for most is the default defrag/spyware settings and UAC which is easily sorted by using Tweak UAC.

Hopefully Windows 7 will be vista after the nip and tuck, and if I'm really lucky only in 64bit flavours.

However if people still wish to use xp then thats their choice, I'm not going to stop them.