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I have the 7g keyboard. It's a great keyboard, but some gripes about it.

I was most excited about the rest pad for the keyboard, but it's absolute garbage quality compared to the keyboard. It also doesn't stay attached to the keyboard, it's just lays over top of it. The rest pad is also very light, and it flexes quite a bit.

The USB connecton on the keyboard isn't used for the keyboard itself, just for the USB hubs. If you don't have a PS/2 Port, You'll need to take up 2 USB connections for the keyboard. One for PS/2 to USB conversion and another for the USB Hub.

The windows flag button is on the right side of the keyboard, and on the left is the more useless macro key button for the media keys on the F Keys.

some pros:

The Numlock/scorll lock/caps lock light is a bright LED. Very very bright and nice.

The keyboard is very nice quality, I use it for a work keyboard, not gaming.

Pressing halfway down is a nice feature, pretty responsive.
It's part of the SSI EEB design to have the two CPUS close together like that.

Thermalright makes a nice socket 771 cpu Cooler.
I don't think you build your PCs.

Dell overcharges bigtime on their higher end computers. the X5450 is already $500 more expensive than newegg.com The FX 4600 is $650 more expensive than what you can get on Ebay. At the end, you'll be spending thousands more buying a computer at Dell than building it yourself.

Nobody is talking Opteron, because AMD has been out of the game for well over a year now. Buying anything AMD now is the worst purchase decision you can make.
We just upgraded to dual Xeons recently.... the only reason we wanted the skulltrail was that it had 4 PCIe x16 Slots. not for video cards, but lots of expansions for scsi cards, raid cards, and Fibre Channel Card, but it's not coming out till april. This asus looks okay, but the Asus DSEB-DG looks to be a better motherboard, and probably a better purchase. From what I read, this asus one, has support to 667mhz ram only too, but don't quote me on that. I think it may off the advantage of having a bios that allows for overclocking.

The size of this board is useless. From the looks of it, you still need a SSI EEB compatible Case. What was the point of making this smaller when you have to put it in a server case either way. The Skulltrail is a pure e-atx designed board. The skulltrail is the perfect Workstation Board.

Also, another thing to note, this Asus board has no built in sound, so you need to add a soundcard.

If this board did come out today, I'm still glad that we went with the Asus DSEB-DG over this board. Just wished skulltrail came out when it was suppose to :(
3 Hours seems odd to me for HD recording. I remember getting 40 some-odd minutes shooting 720 24pn on a 16gig card. So it should be something like 80 or 90 minutes with a 32gig card. I don't remember too much. I actually don't like using this camera.

Also, The MRSP is what the card will be sold at and there's no reason to sell it for less. It's almost next to impossible getting the 16gb version, and people will be willing to pay full price for the 32gb version.

Yes it's expensive, and a lot of HVX owners are bitter about it, as they all thought prices would fall quicker. But, there will be 3rd party versions out eventually, and hopefully they'll switch from 4 SD cards inside a P2 card to SSD Flash Memory to lower the cost.
Is there a phone like this that supports SIP? I'm not really interested in skype, because of its closed protocol.

I know some new nokia cell phones have VOIP support with SIP. But I think you need some third party software. I don't know, i haven't exactly looked into, since the phones are still a little pricey for me.
I meant signal, not singal. And I was referring to the SD stream when i said analog signal.

But, my question is, will this be supported in Vista's Media Centre? My friend has an old 9800 All in Wonder, and he told me that the card wasn't supported in the new Media Centre.
These won't do Mpeg-4 decoding/Encoding, as far as I know, QAM/ATSC is Mpeg/2 with Dolby Digital Sound. There's no reason to alter the stream for Live TV. It probably converts the analog singal to Mpeg-2.

Don't know about the internal one, but the USB definitely won't be hardware decoding. It'll just stream the Mpeg-2 to the computer, and the computer needs to do the rest.
shooting black and white shouldn't have any affect with ASA/ISO rating of the sensor.
Has anyone thought of doing an OLED TV in a form of a Projection screen? Is this possible? I'd be really interested in something like that. I don't have the patience to install a front projector. But install a screen I can roll down whenever I want, would be very amazing.

Of course, I'm talking about sizes of 80+ inches.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm looking for a wireless trackpad to use with my older (2.5 or so years old) C2D MacBook that's perpetually docked to my home theater. Something sleek, thin, not too small, made of high quality materials. Ideally, it would natively support all of (Snow) Leopard's multitouch inputs, and even more ideally, it would have a charging dock / base. The only problem is that I'm not sure that such a thing even exists. Think you can throw me a bone?"
 

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