Pick me pleeeaaase!

One thing you can't say about the PS3 is that it was overpriced. Hell, it was outrageously UNDERPRICED for the hardware it has. If you remember, the original manufacturing cost was over $800, most of which went towards the blu ray drive. Blue lasers (405.5 nm) were incredibly expensive to produce in 2006 and if the 360 came with an internal HD drive (doesn't matter which format, same technology) it would have cost as much or more than the PS3 did.

If the 360 were to come with an internal HDDVD drive, then it would have been delayed an extra year, cost $600, and probably wouldn't be dominating the PS3 like it did with the time/price advantage.

Then the sony would buy out all the movie studios again, and HDDVD would STILL be loosing.

Good god Jerry, spiteful enough? You obviously hate sony and seeing them succeed with this pisses you off... oh well, suck it up.

The thing people seem to forget here is that these are corporations, not high schoolers. What I mean by that is there is no "pissing contest", no "hurt feelings", its just business. Did you ever think that the big motivation behind sony trying to make blu-ray win is because in the long run it will make them billions and billions of dollars? It has nothing to do with any of their other formats. If they had lost, they would have cut their losses are started retrofitting their factories to make the other format, like Toshiba will undoubtedly do now. Every COMPANY is in it for one thing and one thing only; the money. This whole fanboyism and brand loyalty is just us.

Just because you brought it up, I'll say this; Apple products are very nice visually, great design, sturdy construction, but the problem is that's their ONLY design. The smooth, rounded edge, bar-of-soap, minimalist design. If you want to stand out, getting a mac is a pretty sh*tty way to do it, because EVERYONE who has a mac has a computer that looks EXACTLY like yours.

When you're like me and you have a macbook on a college campus, you do much more blending in than standing out. I have a friend who has a sweet-looking sony vaio running dual-boot windows vista and OSX86 and I couldn't be more jealous.

My point is, I don't think I'm alone when I say, I love OSX, but there are OTHER laptops out there that I would like to use! Apple, if you're not going to make any variety in your hardware line, then for god-sake release and open-hardware version of OSX.

@Zak

I've seen a lot of mac fanboys before but now you're just embarrassing yourself. Blindly believing that no one can compare to a certain company is just ignorant. I've used many laptops before (PC and Mac) and I have to say I like OSX better than Windows but there are definitely more durable/better construction/better feature-set laptops in the PC realm. Given the ThinkPad reputation, this laptop is likely MUCH better (hardware wise) then the MBA. Face it, Apple could have done much better. Give it up already.

"lmao, show me the article... 9 million? are you serious? maybe worldwide... but definilty not 9 million in the US..."

Yes laugh your ass off. Because the US is the only country in your world and those other landmasses where people live are irrelevant. Sony isn't even an American company, how smug must you be to assume any market stats you see represent the US only.

Put the dictionary away. Yes your analysis is correct but nitpicking is annoying. ;)

@anon

"Like I said before, I think it's too bad that the cheaper, complete format won out over the more expensive, incomplete format.."

Why is that too bad? Cheaper and more complete sounds like a good thing to me...

First of all, Johan S's comment was clearly a joke, but then on a more serious note, perpetual motion as we know it is definitely NOT impossible, it's just beyond our current understanding of physics.

Anyone who thinks our current set of physical laws and equations is complete and perfect is way more of a crackpot than any of these basement scientists. We're still very early in our civilization's development, we still have much to learn and much to discover.