I don't remember NEC but Hewlett Packard had an IBM compatible that had a touchscreen monitor. I believe was around 1980, it used infra red beam grid. It did not sell. Lets face it taking your hand off the keyboard is non productive. At least the mouse is a shorter distance for your hand. If you are a power user you are going to use a bunch of shell scripts with short names and keyboard macros.

I find The Secret World the only new and interesting game so far. I still dable in Dungeons and Dragons Online, have had varying success with it under wine.

Netflix is on my list, Moonlight is not a solution unfortunately.

Perhaps add a lounge area and sell coffee. Provide movie magazine literature wifi for browsing. I myself prefer browsing in a physical store and the movie banter that can be had. My biggest problem is the returns, late rentals remembering to return physical media. It would be nice if this could be solved by using a temporary media or return by mail.

It's not like they have not done it before. They built OS2 for IBM then did a 180 and made a competing product in parallel called windows. The then turned their back on IBM when they where in a position to do so. OS2 was reduced to a cult following.

Yes, but the problem as I see it is to get the game publishing companies on board. If Valve can make it easier for them to port games over and perhaps kick off some sweet deals on some popular titles it would bring people over. I only run windows for games. No other reason I would ditch windows in a heartbeat for a good alternative.

Agreed. I have recently spent about two years in a shipyard restoring an antique wooden boat. I have seen a lot of people throwing truckloads of money at something they thought up. I have come to call them barn jobs they always look like something built in a barn. A truly fine vessel has a pedigree. A known designer, built in a known shipyard, will always have worth, and be a thing of beauty. He could of just paid these guys and described what he wanted and ended up with something nice.

What do you think of computer gaming today? Do any of them interest you?

Cheers everyone ....

My computer won't be the same without iGoogle to launch my day. I will have some months to figure out how to come up with something that works the same I suppose but I am not too happy about it.

Out of what you just listed, there is only one entry that I have payed money and watched. But each to their own.

Truly. I believe this goes back to the IBM Microsoft days when IBM paid Microsoft by the Kloc or per 1000 lines of code. Old habits die hard.

DesQview had multitasking for dos in /85. IBM had topview a year before but it failed.

I agree, once the race to the bottom starts it can only result in lack of quality. I remember going to the Woodwards store, in my neighborhood. You paid a little more but only top quality items and extra service where what you got. And if you where not satisfied you could return the product. Groceries where delivered by conveyor belt to a station where you could drive up and they where loaded in your trunk for you. The hardware department had all the quality tools and a variety of fasteners you could buy individually no display packs. There where benches for the old timers to hang out and a malt shop for the kids. The dollar stores put them out of business. And to make matters worse foreign business people tried to buy their name to use on cheap dollar store imitations. When the Woodwards family declined this they continued with cheap knockoffs like Woodwinds, etc. Sure you can save a little money here and there but surely quality must have some meaning, quality of product, and quality of life. The last Landmark Woodwards building was used by squatters and for Raves etc, I think was recently converted to some kind of apartment complex.. yay .. Hudson's Bay next stop.