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Does anyone else think it looks like a Sega Game Gear? Think it munches through batteries even faster with a HD inside? What was it, 3 hours of gameplay on like six batteries?

This thing doesn't look physically even remotely like a game gear. These dimensions and design don't bear any resemblance at all.

And as far as how we can expect it to look architecturally, making an analogy to the Game Gear would be even more retarded.

The Game Gear ran off a 3.58MHz Z80 while this presumably will be running off at minimum at 400MHz XScale or equivalent if it's going to play 704x480 30fps DIVX. The Game Gear was all solid state while this has a hard drive. The Game Gear had a 160 x 146 screen while this has a 704x480 screen.

The Game Gear's architecture was never MEANT to be portable. It was a Sega Master System stuck in a stylish black case with minor graphical (colour depth) improvement.

How the hell does a post saying this looks like a handheld console from years ago to which it bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever get modded 5 Insightful?

For my next act I guess I'll be responding to the next Linux article by saying

Doesn't this look like CP/M?

as a way of asserting that Linux should therefore function similarly. I mean, they don't bear any particular resemblance and are from vastly disparate eras, but I figure I'll get modded 5 Insightful.

Does anyone else think it looks like a Sega Game Gear? Think it munches through batteries even faster with a HD inside? What was it, 3 hours of gameplay on like six batteries?

This thing doesn't look physically even remotely like a game gear. These dimensions and design don't bear any resemblance at all.

And as far as how we can expect it to look architecturally, making an analogy to the Game Gear would be even more retarded.

The Game Gear ran off a 3.58MHz Z80 while this presumably will be running off at minimum at 400MHz XScale or equivalent if it's going to play 704x480 30fps DIVX. The Game Gear was all solid state while this has a hard drive. The Game Gear had a 160 x 146 screen while this has a 704x480 screen.

The Game Gear's architecture was never MEANT to be portable. It was a Sega Master System stuck in a stylish black case with minor graphical (colour depth) improvement.

How the hell does a post saying this looks like a handheld console from years ago to which it bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever get modded 5 Insightful?

For my next act I guess I'll be responding to the next Linux article by saying

Doesn't this look like CP/M?

as a way of asserting that Linux should therefore function similarly. I mean, they don't bear any particular resemblance and are from vastly disparate eras, but I figure I'll get modded 5 Insightful.

I don't know. The more flawed the system, the more I find myself nostalgicaly cherishing it for its flaws, in the way one looks back in foolish nostalgia on what were at the time the most irritating aspects of a relationship.

For example, I think I have more affection for my TI 99/4A (why else would I regularly take pictures of it) than for any other system, all the more so due to its terrible system architecture (16-bit CPU with everything but 256 bytes of CPU RAM on an 8-bit bus), and due to the irritation of trying to get games running off of what is sometimes an infuriating cart+casette combo.

You really value and develop a relationship with your system when it takes genuine effort to get the bloody software working (e.g., off of casettes, and sometimes having to type it out manually in line number BASIC).

Indeed, I became similarly cynical about CIBC ATMs in Canada a while ago when I lost my bankbook and card thanks to one of the newer generation crashing on me. When I asked the staff the next day, the manager who I eventually met with told me frustratedly they'd been having some problems with their ATMs crashing ever since they switched to a Windows-based platform. On the other hand, I got some neat picks of an ATM booting into NT4. Picks included below:

CIBC ATM Booting (1)

CIBC ATM Booting (2)

CIBC ATM Booting (3)

CIBC ATM Booting (4)

Indeed, I became similarly cynical about CIBC ATMs in Canada a while ago when I lost my bankbook and card thanks to one of the newer generation crashing on me. When I asked the staff the next day, the manager who I eventually met with told me frustratedly they'd been having some problems with their ATMs crashing ever since they switched to a Windows-based platform. On the other hand, I got some neat picks of an ATM booting into NT4. Picks included below:

CIBC ATM Booting (1)

CIBC ATM Booting (2)

CIBC ATM Booting (3)

CIBC ATM Booting (4)

Indeed, I became similarly cynical about CIBC ATMs in Canada a while ago when I lost my bankbook and card thanks to one of the newer generation crashing on me. When I asked the staff the next day, the manager who I eventually met with told me frustratedly they'd been having some problems with their ATMs crashing ever since they switched to a Windows-based platform. On the other hand, I got some neat picks of an ATM booting into NT4. Picks included below:

CIBC ATM Booting (1)

CIBC ATM Booting (2)

CIBC ATM Booting (3)

CIBC ATM Booting (4)

Indeed, I became similarly cynical about CIBC ATMs in Canada a while ago when I lost my bankbook and card thanks to one of the newer generation crashing on me. When I asked the staff the next day, the manager who I eventually met with told me frustratedly they'd been having some problems with their ATMs crashing ever since they switched to a Windows-based platform. On the other hand, I got some neat picks of an ATM booting into NT4. Picks included below:

CIBC ATM Booting (1)

CIBC ATM Booting (2)

CIBC ATM Booting (3)

CIBC ATM Booting (4)