@tastypotato It retails for $120 -- $100 was only an introductory/pre-order price. This was stated on their website during the pre-order, and I doubt it'll be going down for a while.

There's actually a couple of extra unpopulated USB signals inside the One, brought out to the "Chumbilical" connector on the board (which also can bring out Composite video and a variety of other connections, if you want it to). If someone wanted to stuff more USB devices inside, you could wire up a female jack to one or two pairs of pins, or just populate the entire header and bring the ports out to a breakout board.

It should also be noted that the bottom of the board has an unpopulated female USB-A connector (super simple SMD soldering job to populate it with the right part), though this is the same (electrically speaking) port as the one that the daughter-card with the WiFi dongle uses, so both can't be used at once. If you do decide to populate it, though, the default wireless card fits flat parallel to the board -- awesome if you wanted to, say, re-case the device.

Looking and hacking with the insides of this device really point out the beauty of it's design, and underscore how much bunnie truly designed it "with love" for the hacking community.

@xclntgig Sounds like a Chumby. chumby One's are now $120, and they have Flickr, Weather, built-in speakers and lots of alarm features (including Pandora, SqueezeCenter, various podcasts and pretty much any streaming internet radio you want). It'll even charge your iPod/iPhone and play music off of it.

@Nicnac I feel like that's a list of Chumby features, not Squeezebox. Chumby can connect to the SqueezeCenter server software, has FLAC, etc. It also has built-in speakers (or /a/ built in speaker, in the case of the chumby One) that don't sound half bad.

I could use a fourth.

I'm a relatively new Switcher (early 2008 MBP15" Penryn revision, my current main machine and my first Mac), and I invested a lot of money in the machine I still use today. I bought it with a copy of Fusion, and with the intent to use it primarily as a Windows machine (I'm a gamer) while still having OS X to use for programming (for this, I used to boot into Slackware) and video editing (hobby usage, I bought Final Cut Express to play around with). I quickly found myself using OS X more and more (I was comfortable with the UI already, and Firefox is Firefox is Firefox), to the point that I ended up with my Windows partition only big enough to hold the games I still want to have access to, and my OS X partition taking the rest (45GB Windows, 200 OS X is where it stands today). As a programmer and software developer, OS X is a great working environment... and BSD at the core certainly doesn't hurt.

It's also nice to not have to bother worrying about malware scans on my main OS -- I've been on Windows long enough to survive without live AV software always running, and still manage to avoid malware infections (AV is more of a mindset than anything, I like to say)... but that doesn't mean OS X isn't less hassle in that department still (if for no other reason than paranoia).

As for service, I went into an Apple store after frying my laptop by pumping an RC car DC line into the +5V USB (taught me to double and triple check circuits of my design that I didn't build myself before plugging them into my laptop...), without an appointment (straight from the lab in which it was fried). They were able to squeeze me in between scheduled appointments, and after 10 minutes of diagnostic work, they said it was going to be either the I/O board or the primary logic board (motherboard) -- the former would be a 2 day repair, the latter a 7 as it wasn't in stock. I told them to take it, as I had my data on an external anyways, and they called two days later... having rushed in a replacement motherboard, and already replaced it. That, combined with the 4 PSU's I've gotten same-day on walkins from my warranty (none had failed, but the insulation had slipped to expose the ground shielding... I travel a lot, so it gets wound/unwound/abused all the time) have really impressed me, customer service wise.

I have reasons I like Apple. I think that Apple "zealots" do give the "white side" a bad reputation, for sure... and I don't claim to /not/ recommend Apple products to my friends, but I've found the package is worth the extra cash you have to lay down for it. I don't agree with everything Apple does (I don't, for instance, develop for the iPhone because I think the way they treat their devs leaves a lot to be desired), but on the whole I do prefer their products (mainly their laptops, though I do use an iPhone).

I'm currently building a monster Hackintosh (since I have never needed tech support on a /desktop/... though those Mac Pro cases are sexy...) -- and I have an MSI Wind running OS X. I'm certainly glad it's possible to do this, as Apple is certainly lacking in certain aspects of their product line.

Man I could use that headset, looks comfortable. >.>

Would love to go, I'm always up for a good con (but can rarely afford them, being a poor college student and all :P).

I'd take one.

Currently designing an Aperture Science themed wristwatch... E-Ink would be cool too, though!