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Ahahahahaha awesome call!
Thank you. It's amazing to see the building-size advertising this article reports on, but it puts in perspective even more when I scroll down to see such a pathetic advertising attempt in the comments on a tech site.
The sad thing is, I recognise your avatar from Rosario to Vampire as Moka.

I feel really geeky right about now.

(pink hair is awesome though)
I had a Dell XPS M1710 from mid-2006, and of course for a laptop around $5000AUD you'd be hoping you were getting your moneys worth in quality, which for the most part was true except for the GPU.

The 7900GTX Go first failed 2 months out of warranty (14 months after purchase). Sent it off to a computer repair shop and they managed to get it running again with more thermal gel all over the GPU.

5 months later - the memory in the GPU started regularly failing.

Since then, it's been a 50/50 chance of whether loading up a game will BSOD the lappy as the memory has a cry. Not happy for a top of the line gaming lappy. My sister's PC with an 8600GT has also had its fair share of GPU problems as well.

2 weeks ago my new desktop gaming PC arrived (custom built, not from Dell) and this time I chose 2 x Sapphire ATi 4890s in Crossfire. Couldn't be happier - flawless performance in any game I throw at it, zero driver issues and stays nice and cool. And damn they were cheap compared to the equivalent Nvidia cards (2 x ATi 4890s = $640 AUD, 2 x Nvidia GTX 275s = $800).

Got to say I'll probably be continuing to use ATi in the future from now on.

Only thing that could tempt me back to Nvidia would be PhysX, but I'm hoping it will all even out with ATi and Havok's recent showings and the simple fact that PhysX will be an integral part of games until both cards support it. AFter all, what game developer really wants to make a game almost half their potential customers can't play?
You have a lot of time on your hands, don't you?
PRE!!!!!!!!!
Would it matter?

You could have that arm and leg replaced with the artificial muscle.
Uh, you realize it's the new type of 3D LCD screen? No glasses required - offset pixels make sure each eye is viewing a separate image as long as the user is directly in front of it.

But wow, talk about geek factor if you actually did need 3D glasses when using your phone out and about in public. =D
Why give a robot arms when you could give it LASER POINTERS!

Logic at its finest.

I have one question though - what is the obsession with making robots white? Seriously they could make it red like a ferrari, or shiny black and steel like a mac, but nooooooooo they make it white like your mum's old fridge (without all the yellowing around the edges).

I think I'll start up my own business to get into this niche market - robot magnets! Now you can decorate your boring white robot like your boring white fridge! Why use its screen when you can attach post-it notes all over it!

I'll be down here in my bunker waiting for the inevitable takeover of the Fridge Robot.
Gotta say the interface has definitely gotten sexier.

But seriously, I know "EmoTure" is supposed to imply it connects on an emotional level but I keep just seeing the "Emo" part and wondering why the interface is any colour other than black and if it has optional pop-out razors.

Haptic feedback should be nice, something I wish was in the iPod Touch.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"All of these new nettops have me intrigued. I'm looking for a small, quiet and cheap PC to replace my aging tower in my home office, and all it really needs to do is load Microsoft Office, check email and surf the web. Is there a particular nettop that's better (or a better value) than another? I know it's a rather new segment, but hopefully someone has taken a chance on one already. Thanks!"
 

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