@Rosco911

Why does it have to be an iFail? That's a little troll-like, no? Anyway, glad to have the app.

I was wondering when this would happen, since TUAW has had theirs for a while now. Well done, Engadget/AOL!

Not necessarily. I currently live in South Korea and enjoy 60-down/8-up for about $25/month. When I lived in Japan, a couple of my coworkers had 100Mb symmetrical fiber connection for ~$50 month.

I'd like to add to your list an option F:

Regional monopolies are busted. All providers are allowed access to all areas and let market factors like quality of service and cost, side-by-side with TRUE competition will drive prices lower. Allow power companies to provide internet access, not only to rural customers in limited cases, but to all customers.

Then we'll see what the cable companies do.

Agreed. It would have been better if he would have linked to the actual ATV3.0 review that was posted later. Same result, but linking to his "I couldn't remember my WiFi password" review was a childish attempt at "I told you so, and now someone agrees with me! SEE? I'm SMART!"

Talk about bitter... sheesh.

@Motoken

"will be the day i buy a e-reader, until then, this technology is just a prototype to me"

Which is why us early adopters have a responsibility to throw down coin to make sure that "promising" tech has a chance to become "mainstream" tech and lives long enough to improve. I'm half joking, of course, but only half.

@wut -

No I bought a Mac because I couldn't get my Adobe apps to install in Vista 64, which for a YEAR was all I was trying to do. At the time I had an Intel QX6600 on an eVGA mobo, an eVGA GTX8800 with 640MB and 4GB of RAM. It was a pretty decent rig at the time I put it together. I even *liked* Vista straight out of the box. It wasn't until I upgraded from CS3 to CS4 (and couldn't even install CS4 on Vista after my CS3 license was no good) that I struggled for about a year.

The sum total of my frustration is that I wanted to be able to do the few things that I needed desktop horsepower (photos/videos) and space (massive iTunes library and a TB or so of video) for. I didn't feel as though dual-booting XP 64 and Vista 64 made any sense, refuse to run Adobe or iTunes in a virtual machine, and yes, to address all of my memory I needed a 64-bit OS.

For my day job, I work on a highly integrated tactical system that uses Solaris, PowerMAXOS, and sometimes RedHawk linux and even the "rock solid" *nix systems can be a letdown if an application or driver programmer happened to suffer from rectal-cranial inversion. When I get home from work I want to work *with* computers, not *on* them. And that's why I bought a Mac. Also - it's the fastest Vista Ultimate machine I've ever had my hands on.

@Hotrod - I agree. If I hadn't had the year of will-it-won't-it with CS4 I would have been pretty happy staying with my Windows machine. I've played with 7 Pro a little bit and am really happy with what I've seen so far. When it goes commercial, I'll probably pick up a copy of Ultimate to upgrade my bootcamp installation.

My reason?
I've built my own PCs for about 12 years. I always enjoyed selecting my components, in recent years getting my goodie boxes from New Egg and benching and stressing the systems and bragging to my friends about how awesome they were. Then I had a problem that I couldn't figure out. I bought Adobe CS4 to do my video editing, and couldn't get it to install on my Vista 64 box. Hours on the phone with Adobe couldn't get it solved and it was the only real thing I had troubles with, I even considered myself a Vista advocate. Ok, so I revert to XP Pro 64 and I can install CS4 no problem. All is right with the world then, right? No. ITunes isn't available for XP 64-bit. So the only things that I wanted to use my desktop for, synching my iPhone and serving content to my AppleTV AND edit video, became irreconcilable. Install XP in a virtual machine? No thanks, I always prefer to run native. So I buy my Mac Pro and it does the few things that I needed a desktop workstation to do, and does them very well. Adobe allowed me to platform swap my license, and I haven't looked back. I still have my HP lappy for anything I need to do in Windows world, and it does those functions nicely, but I'll be keeping my Mac Pro for a very long time.

What if... and this is probably more wishfuul thinking than anything else, the "tablet" is actually more along the lines of a Wacom Cintiq (http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/cintiq-12wx.php) that has on the go iPod like capabilities. I've been wanting a Wacom for just about ever, but if this thing was a pressure-sensitive, multitouch input device, that just *happened* to have media player functions, that would be pretty awesome. Then again, I might be the only one in the world that wants something like that.

I didn't realize that Garmin and TomTom had caught up with Asian satnavs in that regard. Kudos to them. You still don't have DMB. ;-)

Or, it could be like here in South Korea where our GPS units tell us where the cameras are with no subscription fees!