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Combine these with x-ray vision glasses, and terrorism would drop to zero. http://www.buy.com/prod/unisex-halloween-x-ray-vision-glasses/223443714.html?listingId=250782707

It accepts a MicroSD, so who cares? Contrary to the market-segmentation-via-soldered-in-SSD strategy of certain other companies, the fact is, the stuff is very cheap - $1 per gigabyte.

It looks like I have this one:

http://www.buy.com/pr/product.aspx?sku=208042786&sellerid=14369784http://www.buy.com/pr/product.aspx?sku=208042786&sellerid=14369784

but it is up to 24", so might not work for you.

Make it the size of a PS3, ship it in molded plastic

In other words, something like an Acer Aspire X1 with a 10-foot-UI media launcher. But one still runs into "I already own a PS3 and a Wii, and I have plenty of games to choose from for them, so I don't need games developed by micro-studios." I don't see how any game with production values typical of indie budgets could be made desirable enough to get the masses to pay $400 for one game. Major-label games have the advantage that the end user is likely to already have the hardware to play it, and therefore each game doesn't have to be a system seller by itself.

any manager worth his weight in pepper packets

So, my computer does not take screenshots 6 times an hour, therefore I took the time to calculate how much this is, exactly. Quick Gooogle search showed that you can buy boxes of 3,000 paper packets online for about $16, making the cost of one paper packet roughly $0.005. That same ordering page lists package weight as 5.5 lbs, so taking the average male weight of 190.9 pounds, it equals roughly 104,127 pepper packets and therefore about $521 dollars. Now that is one low-cost manager.

You wouldn't happen to be a fan of Larry Winget or read his book Shut up stop whinning and go get a life?

I think people modded you down because they didn't like your answer. I wish it were not true, but after reading the link above book and seeing how in Alabama that no American would bother picking vegetables at $10/hr (not minimum wage!) when unemployment is over 9% shocked me! I assumed people even with college degrees would be linning up if they had student loans to pay or rent.

For the moderators yes, it is true that Asians work for much cheaper, but my neighbor who does I.T. management outsourced to India because they were willing to work 70 hour work weeks and say Yes Sir with a smile when something needed to get done. It angered my other neighbor who used to do I.T. work but businesses are just trying to cut costs to make their shareholders happy and they love the dedication in case a project is failing that the workers are happy to do overtime.

I wish what you said about women being selfish was not true, but I am a product of divorce over money. All I could make was $15/hr after school and her dreams of having a nice house with a pool like what she had with her exhusband caused the divorce. Her new boyfriend is a doctor. Coincidence? Come to think of it she was right and has a right to be happy like everyone else.

If you want to make money you have to get other people to pay you. That comes through not only work, but by serving and giving people/society the most value. You will get paid more

And the new blackberry tablet is just released at the same price as the fire. With 10 times the power and features. It's war I tell ya! http://www.buy.com/loc/blackberry-playbook/69184.html

How about $149.00

Of course to get full functionality you'll need to root

and a quick install of your particular flavor ROM

A known liar, for fanboy reasons, may have been lying about other things too. For example, the price of th AMD CPU' is actually:

First of all beelsebob did not name the source of his pricing information, you assumed it was newegg as the AC found a cheaper MB on newegg. It was not. After some research I speculate that his pricing came from buy.com as the Phenom and Core i5 prices match. If you had done your research before jumping to the conclusion that he was a fanboy, you would found this out.

What else did he lie about? I cant find a single SATA 6Gb + USB 3.0 motherboard for Sandy Bridge for under $89. [newegg.com] Hard to prove that he lied here.. absence of evidence and all that, but we know that he is a liar so we cannot accept what he says....

I cannot find this MB on buy.com but I have to admit that the website does not make it easy to search MB by feature like newegg does. But since we can't find it, I can't assume he lied.

As for you. We know that when confronted with the fact the at least one piece of data from the liar was incorrect, you still worked off the rest of his data unquestionably. That makes you a fanboy too. When I said "we" cannot accept what he says, that obviously didnt include you, who happily did because you agreed with the conclusion.

It appears that you were the one who has made conclusions on incorrect data. At the worst I may have accepted his data but that does not make me a fanboy for I have no preference for either company and have owned both. Most of my purchasing decisions are based on sales. I however did research his data and it appears he is correct if my speculation about his source is correct.

A known liar, for fanboy reasons, may have been lying about other things too. For example, the price of th AMD CPU' is actually:

First of all beelsebob did not name the source of his pricing information, you assumed it was newegg as the AC found a cheaper MB on newegg. It was not. After some research I speculate that his pricing came from buy.com as the Phenom and Core i5 prices match. If you had done your research before jumping to the conclusion that he was a fanboy, you would found this out.

What else did he lie about? I cant find a single SATA 6Gb + USB 3.0 motherboard for Sandy Bridge for under $89. [newegg.com] Hard to prove that he lied here.. absence of evidence and all that, but we know that he is a liar so we cannot accept what he says....

I cannot find this MB on buy.com but I have to admit that the website does not make it easy to search MB by feature like newegg does. But since we can't find it, I can't assume he lied.

As for you. We know that when confronted with the fact the at least one piece of data from the liar was incorrect, you still worked off the rest of his data unquestionably. That makes you a fanboy too. When I said "we" cannot accept what he says, that obviously didnt include you, who happily did because you agreed with the conclusion.

It appears that you were the one who has made conclusions on incorrect data. At the worst I may have accepted his data but that does not make me a fanboy for I have no preference for either company and have owned both. Most of my purchasing decisions are based on sales. I however did research his data and it appears he is correct if my speculation about his source is correct.

At least 9 higher then 1080 here
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=20&name=LCD-Monitors#

4 here
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/guidedSearch.asp?CatId=12&name=Monitor-LCDs

15 here
http://www.buy.com/SR/SearchResults.aspx?tcid=3494

Not really a rare and exotic thing. Its becoming more common place all the time.

I wonder if there is a way to reprogram the Goog-411 buttons on the cordless phones that have them, such as this http://www.buy.com/prod/thomson-28811fe2-premiere-goog-411-dect-6-0-cordless-phone-1-x-phone/q/sellerid/22539552/loc/111/207514570.html one.

"memory cards) to see which can get 200MB of HD video data"

Why 200MB? 8gb MicroSD are only $14, why did he bother with just 200MB? It's not like it was cheaper or saved any weight, wonder why he chose such a strange size for HD video since 200MB of HD video is what, a few minutes maybe?

You could put these to on each side of the connection. Then use ekiga ( or something else similar ) to hold open the connection. At least then you'd be able to follow each other around the room. http://www.buy.com/prod/cobra-digital-pc1000-ultimate-web-camera/q/loc/101/207906616.html

Of course, it all hinges on how well it actually works. My Garmin 60 CS has the ability to search for "points of interest" (including gas stations). But searching is so clunky and inaccurate - especially compared to what we're now used to with google maps - you only use it when you really must.

I have a Hori Xbox 360 USB pad: http://www.buy.com/prod/hori-xbox-360-fighting-stick-ex2-uhx3-07/q/loc/108/205483240.html -- $50, and any Windows XP+ machine can run it just fine. I imagine it's doable in linux, but I don't know for sure. Anyway, it's perfect for MAME. Digital joystick and enough buttons for most arcade games.

http://www.amazon.com/Blakes-Region-Non-Format/dp/B000085RK5/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1278440411&sr=8-2
http://www.buy.com/prod/toshiba-all-multi-region-region-free-code-free-digital-cinema/q/listingid/39816733/loc/111/210876659.html

80 bucks tops and that gets you season Season 1. Many computer dvds will let you pick a different region up to 5 times. You could buy one of those and set it that way on your computer... Dig around a bit and I bet you can find a region free with hdmi and you wouldnt need a PAL tv.

There is much that is not on dvd out there I admit this. Yes it is a pain. However, perhaps you should write (not email) the BBC and ask them to come out with it on DVD/Bluray? Maybe they would? Its not like they have to do a bunch of work they already encoded it...

Lets be honest folks why we go to 'pirate' sites. We are being cheap. Oh sure there is *some* stuff you cant get anywhere else, or like the above example a pain to get. But 99% of the time we are being cheap. We are doing it as we see the value of those things as very low, or we do not have the money.

Just because we perceive it as a low value thing does not mean it is. For example if I had a gold bar. It would be relatively useless to me. Not of much value (much like all money). But it does have value to get other things. But if I hold onto that something it is still valueless. There are no buyers (as I am hording it) so it has no value. Now if I were to sell it *THEN* it may have value. With 'pirating' there is a demand so some sort of value is placed on it. If you didnt value it at all you wouldnt bother downloading it at all. For example if you are a widow in his 60s would you download the entire back catalog of barney the dinosaur? No, it has no value to you. But if you are a parent who has a 2 year old who likes barney you might be downloading it. It has some value to you. Now it is a matter is it worth it to you to part with some cash.

On the other end you have people who make DVDs. To make a 10k or 5k run of DVDs is not exactly cheap (I would estimate about 40-80k). They are also going to want to make a healthy profit (which is usually at least double the production costs). Ever wonder why bargain bin prices are usually 2-5 bucks that is why. It is close to production cost they are just getting rid of them at little profit. Pressing a DVD is cheap, hiring people to encode it, make menus, test it, etc is NOT. Now logically people would think oh then if they make more and sell more of them the cost should be lower. That is not true at all. People are willing as the *PERCEIVED* value is high and are willing to spend up to 4-5x the cost of production (hence the 20-25 price point for new stuff). Notice it is the perception that set the value not actual costs of production. If that perception is less than production costs companies will not make the DVD. In your case they see region 1 as a low proposition. You need to *SHOW* them there is demand there, you need to show them they have low cost to get in. Talk to them like businessmen and they will listen to you. Talk to them like a beggar and they will ignore you.

Ah, yes. The old "it cost more, therefore it must be better/newer/faster" generalization.

So, go have a look at what's actually available. You'll see that while the prices do vary wildly, there is very little variation in terms of the actual products (aside from packaging) other than a handful of products that appear to actually be independently engineered (which is not necessarily a good thing).

Just to pick one particular product: B&H sells it for $11.95. Computer Geeks has the same one for $7.99. Our hack-friendly friends at Sparkfun sell their copy for $10.99.

Meanwhile, buy.com has the same thing for $3.37 plus shipping. Deal Extreme is even cheaper at $1.85 including shipping, but you have to wait for it to cross the Pacific.

So...uh. Should I buy the expensive one from B&H, or the cheap one from Deal Extreme? B&H will certainly handle returns better in case the thing breaks or whatever, but for the price I can buy a small handful of these widgets from DX and spread out the MTBF myself.

(The rest of your post is spot-on.)

$190 is expensive? I suppose it's expensive for something that drives an ancient obsolete scanner, but back when parallel SCSI was (relatively) popular, a new card was about the same price. IIRC, an Adaptec 1542CF retailed for a bit over $200 in 1995.

I am surprised anybody buys it. You can buy an iPad for about the same price, and the iPad does far more.

Arguably the kindle is better for just reading - still.

Sears has the "Aluratek LIBRE eBook Reader PRO" for $99, and buy.com has the "Ectaco jetBOOK LITE e-Book Reader" also for $99.

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00309013000P?vName=Computers%20&%20Electronics&cName=PortableElectronics&sName=MP3%20Players&psid=FROOGLE01&sid=IDx20070921x00003a

http://www.buy.com/prod/ectaco-jetbook-lite-e-book-reader/q/listingid/84607877/loc/111/213401968.html

The reason that the kindle / sony reader / nook are better than these $99 readers is because they use e-ink. Which really is a different feel for reading and viewing. If you haven't seen it then you don't realize how much of a difference it brings over the other display types. It is also why they are better at just plain reading then the iPad ever can be just because of eye strain levels.

I am surprised anybody buys it. You can buy an iPad for about the same price, and the iPad does far more.

Arguably the kindle is better for just reading - still.

Sears has the "Aluratek LIBRE eBook Reader PRO" for $99, and buy.com has the "Ectaco jetBOOK LITE e-Book Reader" also for $99.

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00309013000P?vName=Computers%20&%20Electronics&cName=PortableElectronics&sName=MP3%20Players&psid=FROOGLE01&sid=IDx20070921x00003a

http://www.buy.com/prod/ectaco-jetbook-lite-e-book-reader/q/listingid/84607877/loc/111/213401968.html

Pft, or like how they (Cisco) sell ram for routers at astonishingly high rates: like this over the-top example, and it's essentially just a 256MB DDR SDRAM. Sure, it's ECC, but last I checked you couldn't GIVE away 256MB SDRAMs. This is a standard PC or Laptop form factor. They also sell compact flash cards, which are regular CF cards, with a Cisco sticker, for 433 bucks, here's one that's 256MB (bigger) for 10.99!. So if idiots are buying them, maybe someone in China says "hey, we buy these surplus compact flash cards for $4/piece, spend $1 to print Cisco stickers and sell them on the web for $400, that's a nice 8000% profit.

> The prices on decent panels (H-IPS, specifically) are coming down now, and it's possible to get a really nice 24" display for under $500. 1920x1200, too,

Pretty please with sugar on top: back that up with a link.

No problemo:

HP ZR24w (regular gamut)

For a bit more for a wide gamut monitor:

Dell U2410

There are probably others, but those are the two I know off offhand.

I don't know about that. To 2015 EE graduates, this Serial to IDC Header Slot Plate Adapter might look like something dug out from an iron age excavation site, or at least like something that one might attach to dad's ancient computer box from 2003 in order to give it even more ancient functionality.

In short: we need better USB adapters. And any software that doesn't work with a really good USB adapter will have to be rewritten. I wonder what we will do when USB finally gets phased out...

I seem to remember the same argument with Region Codes and DIVX. People voted with the wallet last time, why would this time be any different?

The 6 ft. HDMI 1.4 cable costs less than $10.

HDMI 1.4 supports Ethernet over HDMI. 4Kx2K video, 3D over HDMI, Audio Return and more. HDMI M/M Cable Version 1.4

The geek can keep his rat's nest of cables. Everyone else will go HDMI.

There are only three Blu-Ray regional codes. But the geek needs to be realistic. Regional codes were vexing only to the video enthusiast with special interests or those living on the regional borders.

Netflix support is built into your home video devices - and bundled with other free and subscription services. It makes for a very easy to use and attractive package.

The Blu-Ray video with 100 GB of content is about two or three days away by post from Amazon.com. Star Trek or The Dark Knight $15-$20. The geek won't want to hear this - but nursing the P2P download is becoming a waste of time.
 

use the coax as a wirepull to rewire the house.

If it works (no strange bends inside the walls), then yes, this is preferable — but he should use CAT6, while he is at it...

Cat5 provides many more options than coax

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Don't discount the bandwidth of coax... A device like this, for example, promises "Up to 4 ethernet runs may be sent through the bridge over a single length of coaxial cable simultaneously"...

Plenty of other coax-to-Ethernet adapters exist too.

Interestingly, the router, that Verizon FiOS gave me, operates over coax... I was puzzled, that they bring fiber all the way to the house, and then "dumb it down" to coax inside the house to connect to the router. But it does give the 35MBps up and down, that I pay for, so I'm not complaining... Verizon's TV set-top boxes also connect to the router (and obtain their IP-addresses) over the coax as well...

I've seen them at Buy.com (2), at Amazon.com, at Kmart.com and plenty other places for even cheaper.

The point of this video is to show that Android and the much faster Android web browser can make all these cheap laptops much more usable when it comes to browsing the web. The Android browser is 100x better than the one in Windows CE or the previous Mozilla-based one they would integrate in those $100 Laptops. More usable means more people will want to buy it, which means even cheaper prices.

I've seen them at Buy.com (2), at Amazon.com, at Kmart.com and plenty other places for even cheaper.

The point of this video is to show that Android and the much faster Android web browser can make all these cheap laptops much more usable when it comes to browsing the web. The Android browser is 100x better than the one in Windows CE or the previous Mozilla-based one they would integrate in those $100 Laptops. More usable means more people will want to buy it, which means even cheaper prices.

> That doesn't mean we should put it in toys outside the battery.

Why not, if those parts are treated with the same care as batteries? Oh wait, people are just SO good with recycling those, and they KNOW they should. If it's as well sealed as a battery, and there is a mechanism for recycling those parts, fine. If they can just go into the existing battery stream, fine. But of course, people will be too stupid/fat/lazy/whatever.

Requiring this kind of protection with jewelry would make the whole thing pointless. If you have to coat it in $10 worth of actual sealed, nonporous plastic, (as Plasti-Dip is cheap but pretty nasty), it doesn't make sense to save $5 on the metal. At that point, silver-plated brass starts to make sense again because it's cheaper to use safer metal than to try to isolate dangerous metal. It will do no good unless somebody is watching, though.

Mal-2

Sorry, which part of:

Of course the PS3 offers a lot more

did you find difficult to understand?

In December, a PS3 cost about $350, while Walmart would sell you a Blu-Ray player for $55. So, exactly as I said - "if you just want to watch Blu-Rays on your HDTV, over-buying is an expensive way to go about it." (I've added some emphasis for you this time).

But it's not $350 vs $50! That's like trying to compare Apple to Caviar.

a ps3 slim is $250
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=210189764&listingid=64256146

a DLNA Blu Ray player is $175
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882005044&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Blu-Ray+Players-_-LG+ELECTRONICS-_-82005044

So it's more of a $50-75 premium, not $300 like you state. I personally think the extra features are worth $50. I'm not sure It's worth a $100 premium.

Microsoft is a company that cannot "let go" of anything. Take .NET for example -- it is a miserable failure that they won't let die.

A few web sites that use .NET technology:

Costco - http://www.costco.com/
Crate & Barrel - http://www.crateandbarrel.com/
Home Shopping Network - http://www.hsn.com/
Buy.com - http://www.buy.com/
Dell - http://www.dell.com/
Nasdaq - http://www.nasdaq.com/
Virgin - http://www.virgin.com/
7-Eleven - http://www.7-eleven.com/
Carnival Cruise Lines - http://www.carnival.com/
L'Oreal - http://www.loreal.com/
Remax - http://www.remax.com/
Monster Jobs - http://www.monster.com/
USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com/
ComputerJobs.com - http://computerjobs.com/
Match.com - http://www.match.com/
National Health Services (UK) - http://www.nhs.uk/
CarrerBuilder.com - http://www.careerbuilder.com/
Newegg http://newegg.com/
Geico http://geico.com/
Capital One http://capitalone.com/
Zecco http://zecco.com/

And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Maybe you should tell all those sites that .NET is a miserable failure? Or if you were just (successfully) karmawhoring, I am sorry to interrupt the circle jerk on here.

We have to be careful with Apples-to-apples, here. RH sells a "subscription" to 24x7 unlimited support for $2500 per year—you can buy their box of software for $50. For Apple server, you get unlimited 24x7 support for $20,000 per year. (If that's too pricey, you can get 12-hour 10-incident support for $6000.)

That $6500 price for RedHat you found is volume pricing for a three-year unlimited support subscription, which would cost $7500 if you purchased it on a year-by-year basis for three years. If you purchased Apple's unlimited 24x7 support subscription for three years, it would cost $60,000.

I'm not saying it's wrong for Apple to play in the high-price arena; I'm just saying they prefer to. The last thing they need is to be undercut by some cheap-ass cloners who have found a market. I think Jobs made this clear this when he came back to Apple.

Cites:

https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/server/rhelap.html

http://www.apple.com/support/products/macosxserver_sw_supt.html

http://www.buy.com/prod/hp-red-hat-enterprise-linux-advanced-platform-with-3-years-24x7/q/loc/105/205856949.html

When external 1Tb HDDs will get extremely cheap i will get them one and setup them for TimeMachine so i'll have less work to do when their internal HDDs will break.

Is $85 at buy.com not extremely cheap enough for you? I think it's fantastic.

(Of course, I paid $600 for a Maxtor 2x512GB array three years ago. And my first external HDD was 325 Megabytes in 1993, for about $400.)

Actually, Leviton has done some wonderful things within the constraints of the single-gang Decora formfactor. Half the light switches in my house have two or three mini paddle switches that flip left and right that are either 1/2 or 1/3 the size of a standard Decora-style switch. Pass & Seymour have similar switches that flip up and down (THEIR 3-switch variant has a half-height switch on top, and two half-height half-width switches on the bottom).

2-switch -- http://www.westsidewholesale.com/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/8/6/861517-1_11.jpg
3-switch -- http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_images/253/90140253.jpg
P&S 3-switch -- http://www.homeandbeyond.com/prod-0085785-zoom.html

Although my original motivation was to avoid replacing the single-gang switchboxes with double- or triple-gang boxes, I've since come to actually prefer them. To me, my brother's newly-built house with 4-6 normal Decora-style paddle switches in a row just seems kind of tacky by comparison... even moreso when you consider that half the switches in each group hardly ever get used, and with that many switches in a row you literally have to stop and think which switch controls the main kitchen lights, as opposed to the undercabinet lights, the cove accent lights, the spotlights over the snackbar, etc.

There IS one lingering problem in America, though... what to do about prewired speaker connectors. A full-sized single-gang plate with two binding posts is WAY too big and looks horrible, but there really isn't any smaller variant that's just big enough for two binding posts. So... anyone who's prewiring for speakers ends up with two choices: put a (relatively) HUGE single-gang box with full-sized blank plate over it, or just bore a hole in the wall and pull the wires through when the day comes to install the speakers. I have more than a few friends who ended up just drilling a hole and pulling the wire pair through, and it was PRECISELY because there really isn't any good appropriately-sized alternative available in America.

I personally run/have run many huge enterprise apps on .NET. It's actually a pretty good platform if you know what you're doing.

Don't take my word for it, though.

When I googled for what you asked to google, I found this list of sites running ASP.NET.

Costco - http://www.costco.com/
Crate & Barrel - http://www.crateandbarrel.com/
Home Shopping Network - http://www.hsn.com/
Buy.com - http://www.buy.com/
Dell - http://www.dell.com/
Nasdaq - http://www.nasdaq.com/
Virgin - http://www.virgin.com/
7-Eleven - http://www.7-eleven.com/
Carnival Cruise Lines - http://www.carnival.com/
L'Oreal - http://www.loreal.com/
The White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Remax - http://www.remax.com/
Monster Jobs - http://www.monster.com/
USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com/
ComputerJobs.com - http://computerjobs.com/
Match.com - http://www.match.com/
National Health Services (UK) - http://www.nhs.uk/
CarrerBuilder.com - http://www.careerbuilder.com/
Newegg http://newegg.com/
Geico http://geico.com/
Capital One http://capitalone.com/
Zecco http://zecco.com/

Maybe you should tell those sites that .NET is a unproven technology? Or will you try to argue that these are not huge enterprise apps? Just because you want something to be true(or maybe you were just karma whoring) doesn't make it true. C# is a better language than Java, though each one has it's strengths. And even conceding your point(I don't) that Java is faster, speed is not everything. Or we would all be coding in assembly or machine code.

I think it is pretty clear, given how little people actually play their Wii's

Little People and Wii? You don't mean how Lucas from Brawl is a dead ringer for Eddie, do you?

I've had this happen at buy.com - i bought this:

http://www.buy.com/prod/ifrogz-iphone-3g-3gs-luxe-soft-touch-case-red-black/q/loc/101/208441113.html

and it was a piece of junk, finish ruined after a couple days in my pocket. It broke in pieces after 2 months.

I posted reviews to buy.com (where i bought it) and they magically never appeared.

I won't shop there anymore. Amazon rules.

Or just pick up some AA batteries: http://www.buy.com/prod/energizer-ipodpowr2-energi-to-go-portable-ipod-charger-portable/q/loc/111/211278019.html

I paid a lot less than buy.com is charging in that link but maybe I caught it on sale.

It "scored better"? You are vastly overestimating how much thought Intel Marketing put into the choice of the name. *grin* Actually, Intel Marketing is just copying Maybelline Turbo Boost mascara. Or maybe Vidal Sassoon Turbo Boost hair dryers?

Actually, in comparison, "SuperUltraMoreFaster Maker" isn't so bad. "Turbo Booster" gets 1,850,000 hits in Google. "SuperUltraMoreFaster Maker" gets exactly none. You're a creative genius!! Sorry, that means you'll never be hired by Intel Marketing.

My partly joking theory is that the staff of Intel Marketing long ago realized that Intel doesn't need marketing, since there is no one else besides AMD from whom to buy fast processors. So, it doesn't matter what they do. Mostly, they seem to do nothing. Sometimes, apparently due to boredom, they experiment with marketing. For example, buyers were offered Intel Bunny People dolls. How many buyers said, "Wow!!! A doll! I think I'll buy from Intel, rather than AMD"? The Intel web site is better now, but a few years ago, it was difficult or impossible to discover the Intel SKU of an Intel processor from the Intel web site, even after you spent 2 hours joining Intel's hardware buyer's organization. You could research processors on Intel's web site, but the Intel SKU wasn't listed. Wholesalers listed the processors by Intel SKU.

Intel's consumer division was so bad it ceased business. It would take many, many paragraphs to tell you how bad it was.

About 2 years ago, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett got bad press by announcing that Intel would go into competition with OLPC, One Laptop per Child: OLPC on 60 Minutes: Intel is evil. Typical story: Negroponte: "Intel should be ashamed of itself" for dumping its low cost PC. Look at the photo of Barrett! The photo looks like the personification of evil. *grin*

Now, Intel is trying to correct problems it has created by encouraging the sales of mobile computers with the Intel Atom processor, without communicating openly and honestly to customers that the Atom processor is very slow. For example, Intel: Some Netbook resellers saw 30% return rate.

Am I saying that, if I ran Intel Marketing, I could do better? Yes, I'm saying that. Maybe you could, also.

How about 64 GB in one memory module? Sorry, it's only DDR2.

http://www.buy.com/prod/hp-64gb-ddr2-sdram-memory-module-64gb-8-x-8gb-667mhz-ddr2-667-pc2-5300/q/loc/101/208453675.html

Buy an airline power adapter and quit whining. http://www.buy.com/prod/lind-automobile-airline-laptop-power-adapter-lind-automobile-airline/q/loc/101/10392022.html

Here ya go

google 21" LCD 1920x1080 There's a ton of options.

Seriously doesn't anyone google anymore? It took you longer to type your question then it took me to find the answer on google.

google 21" LCD 1920x1080 There's a ton of options.

Seriously doesn't anyone google anymore? It took you longer to type your question then it took me to find the answer on google.

google 21" LCD 1920x1080 There's a ton of options.

Seriously doesn't anyone google anymore? It took you longer to type your question then it took me to find the answer on google.

Or,

20" 1600x1200 NEC S-IPS

The smallest 1900x1200 LCD is a 22" Lenovo L220x, AFAIK.

Doesn't it just make the poor little arm that goes back and forth break faster? I mean seriously.
Example:

I just bought William Shakespeare's Hamlet awhile back, the 2 DVD set..
http://www.buy.com/prod/hamlet/q/loc/322/204647810.html

Disk 1 played one time, then froze in the middle, (with lots of noise at the beginning/load) it started chirping, clicking and clacking and got all nicked up.
Disk 2 played perfect.

I never even got to SEE the thing.
I took it back got another.
SAME THING.

This time, I took it to a local gamestop to have them buff the nic's out.

DRM is crap!

http://www.buy.com/prod/3k-razorbook-400-ce-ultra-mobile-pc-arm-400mhz-7-wvga-128mb-ddr2-sdram/q/loc/101/210401409.html?dcaid=15890

3K RazorBook 7-inch Notebook with ARM CPU, 128MB, 4GB & Card Reader New Coupon
$147.99 with Free Shipping
Buy.com has this 3K notebook for $147.99 with free shipping.
# Specs:ARM 400MHz processor
# 7-inch LCD screen
# 128MB of memory
# 4GB SSD hard drive
# Card Reader
# Wi-Fi card

They exist already. For example, the RazorBook. They run Wince... I mean Win CE.

40 hours seems quite plausible. If you figure an iPhone battery has a capacity of about 5.18 Watt hours (1400 mAh * 3.7V) according to ipodbatteryfaq.com and it handles computation at blast for several hours on a charge, ignoring the extra power for a larger screen for the moment, if it had a battery the size of a MacBook (62.4 Watt hours according to System Profiler's battery stats on mine), it would last on the order of 60 hours on a charge even running at full tilt. Doing lighter work, I could easily see that extended by as much as a factor of three. So when you factor in the bigger display, yeah, I could see 40 hours being possible, assuming good power management. And that is definitely a machine I would buy in an instant. I think 20 hours is probably more realistic given the size constraints of a netbook, though.

That said, the battery life on the RazorBook is reportedly only on the order of 4 hours. Given that the CPU is comparable in its power consumption, this tells me that either the screen backlight is an unholy pig or Win CE power management is absolutely terrible. Neither would be much of a surprise. No idea how the Linux version of the RazorBook does on power.

I bought one at jefatech.com in 2007. It's a WIFI-Link WL-USB-RSMA.
This link is the exact one I have.

I only know how to do AP mode in Windows .