Nonsense! Windows Vista and 7 effectively hide BSODs by rebooting immediately on a system crash. You need to change a setting before you will ever see a BSOD. Go to "Advanced System Settings->Startup and Recovery" and disable the "Automatically Restart" item. Then you'll see a BSOD (when your system crashes)...

If you've been following Nokia (and Trolltech), you'll see where this is going. If you haven't, and you're interested:

"In June 2008 Nokia acquired Trolltech ASA to enable the acceleration of their cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and to develop its Internet services business. On September 29, 2008 Nokia renamed Trolltech to Qt Software."

You want to see why?

http://trolltech.com/products/device-creation/reference-designs/touchscreen-mobile-phone

The "Neo" platform is way ahead of "Android", and this is what I'd expect to see their Linux phone based on (they did pay 100million Euros or so for Trolltech, so they must have had something big in mind!). I would also expect a port of Qt to Symbian. Qt is already available on OS X, Windows, Linux & Windows CE. A mobile phone platform built on Qt can switch the underlying OS relatively simply...

My 0.02...

Perhaps they were trying to match it to Macs? Macs like the Mini (and of course the Air) need something like this. Probably easier to sell to those markets if your product follows the same aesthetics. How is this a rip-off of an Apple design, when a external drive case that looks almost exactly like a Mac Mini isn't? It's an *alternative* to an official product, that's better (eject button, works on non-Air computers). That's good, remember...

Wow, this makes my head hurt!

As far as I can remember, the Classmate with XP was supposed to compete (for educational contracts) with the OLPC with Sugar. Now the Classmate with Sugar is competing with the OLPC with XP?

A *much* better take on this idea can be found here:

http://www.123macmini.com.nyud.net:8080/macminicube/

There is one part of the Zune that Microsoft paid too much attention to, which IMHO is one of the main reasons why nobody uses it: They put too much work into the "binding it to our own software" part. Apple did this too, but in comparison, their efforts are almost laughable. Which is good. I accept that there are motivations for keeping the average user away from interfaces that might reduce revenue or (heaven forbid) anger the media gods, but there's a whole bunch of users who see platform compatibility as a major selling point (include me in that group). I have a Zune, an iPod and a Zen (I develop software for them), and the Zune 1.5 years later has still not been 'cracked' so that it can be used with other software. The barriers to this happening are completely artificial. Microsoft took the(ir) open MTP standard and added an extension to it which basically makes the Zune refuse to read or write content (you can still catalog content) until an authentication phase has taken place. Normally this kind of irritating stuff is taken care of in days by the hacking community (witness last year when Apple added a DB hash check to the new iPod firmwares, and tried to lock-in the iPod touch/iPhone with a proprietary USB protocol), but with the Zune - nobody cares. Microsoft's bad name precedes itself, and so many (angered by it's past(?) lack of ethics) refuse to buy it or even look at it regardless of how good it is (and frankly it's 'good' only if you like pretty). My favourite is the Zen. It has the best sound, a removable battery, doesn't require proprietary software to use, supports the most (common) formats (native DivX FTW!), doesn't require a 'dongle' to watch video on a TV etc. etc.

@rayza563

You've obviously never played Crysis if you're gonna make a comment like that... :)

Seriously, get a 8800GT and play that game. The 8600GT is not a serious gaming card. So if that was what you wanted, it was outdated when you bought it. If you didn't want it for games, it still works doesn't it?

Car analogies don't work with computers. Your's is no exception.

Also, the "after" picture is fake... If you look carefully, the "smudge" is in a place where there was no marker before...

If you look at the writing on the other side, there's one that says:

"360? More like three shitsty!"

And he thought they'd leave that on? That's naive...

Can somebody who is willing to demonstrate their superior knowledge instead of merely claiming it please explain why this is more powerful than systems which have higher GFlop ratings?

Is it parallelism? If so, what is the difference between 72 parallel processors (in this system) and 112 parallel processors in a GPU (nVidia)?

Is it the ability to program it in assembler? Is it the availability of a Fortran compiler? Something else?

If the PS3 is not able to be used as a powerful node in a super-computing cluster, then why are the "Top 500" site (amongst many others) saying that you can and that it's a good choice?