I never even played a X-box game ... :-(

My gripe is the lousy resolution: 480 x 272 is a joke. Even Apple's iPod now manages 640x480 on it's smaller screen.

Come on Archos - you can do better. Until you do I won't buy.

Nah. $45 for a player and the privilege of listening to music ... then forgetting to cancel and having to pay even more ...

It's the old "bait and trap the lazy/forgetful ones".

And if you use FairUse4WM to pirate/keep the songs after 3 months you might as well download them without dishing out $45 for a $20 player.

"Unbox" ???

I thought it couldn't get worse than "Zune" but I was wrong ...

Buy Dell? Never again.

We outfitted our institute with Dells - about 200 of them. Within a year over 100 of them had some fault (mostly defect optical drives).

Dell's quality is miserable - there was a HUGE outpouring of grief on Dell's support website. Dell shut down the forum.

I had a talk with a service technician - according to him nearly 30% of Dell's are faulty straight out of the box!

No more Dell!

Tried a lot of different things on PC (Netmeeting, AIM, Skype, etc) first for audio, then wanted to add video - mainly to chat to New Zealand (for my girlfriend - parents are in their fifties, had 2 GHz P4 Dell PC, 2 Mbit DSL) and to Germany (for me - parents are 64 and 73, had 2.4 GHz P4 Medion PC from Aldi, 3 GBit DSL) from Scotland (on 4 Mbit cable with 2 GHz custom built P4). Found it quite disappointing (possibly partly due to the USB cameras).

Tried iChat with an iSight (expensive camera but VERY worth it due to directional microphone and autofocus) and was blown away - full screen, 30 fps, full duplex audio (with a slight delay of half a second)

Now my girlfriends parents use a 1.2 GHz G4 iBook with an iSight, I bought my parents a second-hand 800 MHz iMac G4 with an iSight, and I'm using a 1.5 GHz G4 Powerbook with an iSight. Bloody fantastic! Latest convert is my brother who moved from his 2.4 GHz PC laptop to a 2 GHz Dual Core Powerbook (also with an iSight).

There simply is no better solution than iChat & iSight, and I'm pretty sure that you can use AppleScript to automate the rest (or use one of the other utilities to redefine keys).

Only downside now is that my mother is upset when I don't want to answer every day (it can get a bit much!) ...

All good things must come to an end ...

I'm getting the blues ...

No luck in this lottery so far ...

Another day, another try ...