Why measure performance in FLOPS? I would expect floating point operations to be a pretty small percentage of processor load for this product's target market.

I think twitter or something like it would be a good way to receive infrequent announcements. I use RSS (via google reader) for news, but if I subscribed to a feed that was only updated every other month, it would get buried under the 100s of articles a week from other sources. E-mail would work, but would place a larger burden on the source of the update. Maybe the RSS readers need a better way to organize and prioritize sources.

The gadgets on the iGoogle page can load content from other domains which probably won't use SSL. This would cause annoying security popups every time you loaded iGoogle.

According to their screen shot, iPhone does. Sadly, my Droid doesn't.

Time for a new phone?

On my Droid, my primary is a Google Apps account and I'm also syncing email with 3 other gmail accounts. The calendar syncs with one of them as well.

"went with the weapon slot types instead of a fully customizable mech?"

You mean required you to put missles in your missle rack instead of lasers or some other weapon? I always wonered why the earlier version didn't do that?

The Vista installer supported USB drives for loading external drivers.

I don't think the article specified, but with the included content, I assumed an external (Seagate 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive) for $69.99 with free shipping.

I liked Vista. The new start menu was great and the bread crumbs in explorer were nice. Also a stable 64 bit system, giving me access to all 4GiB of memory, was good. I will say they screwed up networking. I'm glad they fixed it in 7.

Missed a few, but RPN is still fewer keystrokes.

Algebraic: (2 + 4) * (5 + 6) [ENTER]
12 keystrokes

RPN: 2[ENTER] 4 + 5[ENTER] 6 + *
9 keystrokes

I just tried it on my Motorola Droid using the Note Everything app. While there were some squiggles, it wasn't nearly as bad as what is shown in the article.