OS X?

Buy the Falcon Northwest over the IBuyPower. Personal experience in both cases. The Fragbox rocks. :-)

Yay! It will be almost as powerful as my modded DS! Hint: If users hack their devices to do sometihng, there's probably a market for it. Too bad there's already a plethora of devices that do this. Nintendo missed the mark.

When I first heard about this I started going out of my way to try buying things at Circuit City. If they die, then Best Buy has no competition (at least in my area) and that would be bad. Even though BB and Circuit City are only a few blocks from each other, I never go to Circuit City. It is, and has been for a long time, a terrible store. That store moved however, so I'll have to see what the new one is like. They really need to reinvent themselves.

Aubrey, this is how electric has to start. We don't want to wait for all our power to be produced by clean methods before we switch to electric cars. Besides, a coal/gas power plant is way more efficient than a tiny internal combustion engine. If we all had electric cars powered by coal plants, the world would be a cleaner place, despite the fact that coal is a dirty fuel. Plus, every bit of renewable power that goes onto the grid is now making your car cleaner.

Mark, I actually used Vista for the first time just recently on a new computer with all the updates. There's no way in heck I'd use that thing. I really don't know what it was like before the Service Pack, but it crashed, Explorer's DVD burning didn't work, copying files took an eternity and the progress meters were totally wrong. It prompted 2 to 4 times for every change to the start menu that I made, event viewer took several minutes to load, canceling file copies took a long time... I can't fit all the nuisances in this reply. But basically, XP was a superior product as far as I can tell.

Maybe they've fixed a lot of things under the hood, but the UI experience on Vista is terrible. It's like, if I could get Window Explorer from XP to run on Vista it might be a good product.

Does anybody make track balls any more?

Yes, there was only one college kid in that movie.

My MBP overheats all the time but only when playing 3D games. The fans kick-in full force, but I still have to prop it up so it has a few inches of clearance or it will overheat. A friend of mine has one 3 months older than mine that uses an ATI card, and he has no problems.

I also think it is getting worse over time.

What's lame though is that the mobile cards already have a feature where they only clock-up if the demand is there. Not sure why they removed that feature then replaced it with a clunky hard-to-reach button and then treat it like a feature.