Think about it, seriously.. " The more USB ports, the better."

The iPad comment was a joke and it is just not built for the outside. It's barely meant for a kitchen with a tile floor.

If you don't want to touch the toughbook, maybe the Dell Latitude E6400 XFR http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-latitude-xfr-e6400?c=us&l=en&s=bsd

No mention of the BBS games of yore ? When I think of unsung heroes I think of Seth Robinson, creator of Legend of the Red Dragon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon

OH YEAH! and BEST of All.. You got the full PCM soundtrack of NIN on a shareware disc!

This sort of reminds me of when ID Software released their Quake Shareware CD. The disc had the shareware release as well as the full version of all the ID top titles, nicely tucked away in an encrypted mass, ready for ID authorization to unlock, that was until qcrack.exe came around :)

The way Windows 7 handles gaming hardware compared to OS 10.6, if Steam does complete the mac version, they'll have room to just call it "Almost boiling water."

"Almost boiling water" will be controlled by:
QuickDraw
Core OpenGL
Quartz 2D
Core Image Core Animation
Core Video
ColorSync
QuickTime

I swear, Windows 7 manifests my MacBook Pro's previous aluminum life as an F-18 turbine because she just wants to SCREAM at 6000 RPMs when Windows does anything multimedia. Ever since Direct-X 3, I have seen OpenGL handle things far more efficiently. Direct-X is just a windows botch override that is not native to windows. At the point of Halo's creation, MS creates a Direct-X native machine.

I agree. The Macintosh OS creates everything for the rest of iSeries. You have to program and design on an OS.

I also recognize that because we are dealing with communications systems, there is a lot of personal information being sent through the iSeries. While the mobile OS is young and not native to Mac OS 10, Apple has to validate programs so that the integrity of your credit card information stays valid to their user agreement.

Mobile apps can be very dangerous. They are running alongside WiFi/GSM transceivers and if these mobile devices go trojan/viral, they can spread through miles like silent cold wildfire. Sony's PSP has a Hard-switch and indicator LED for their WiFi so if their system goes rouge and you know it shouldn't be transmitting, you can kill the radio.

CmdrTaco can do whatever he wants because he has the powers of SYSADMIN. He has no serial number.

Pardon me.. Ken & Roberta Williams.. married.. obviously.. oie.

Yeah, Amigas were awesome for things like Deluxe Paint and other productive junk.. but the games were premium caliber.

I still play space quest III using kickstart as the amiga version has way better sound than the pc version. The rest of Sierra's titles came out for pc afterwards, so that is where I went.. where Ken Wilson & Roberta Williams went.

I have had similar issues with the keyboard drivers myself. I have a 2007 Macbook Pro and when I tried to install the 64-bit version of Windows, I couldn't initialize the install because after EFI boot, I couldn't hit "Any key" to start the installer..

The 32-bit version of Windows 7 was a success.. for some reason, that installer allowed me to press any key and begin the process. I am writing from Windows 7 on my mac right now, and I used the snow leopard disc to install my drivers. All went fine as such.. but the ATI x1600 video card driver sucks.. and the Omega ATI drivers are not ready for Vista/7 yet, so I have done some driver updates myself after the snow leopard package.

I can understand that brick happens, and fixing bricked consoles is not profitable in the short run. The consumer can no longer consume Sony product; That's the situation ultimately.

The PS3 firmware updates are approved and sometimes critical to the system as it is net-bound and privy to attacks as any other online system is. Somebody creates a bluetooth hack or some modded piece of spam breaches the some part of the XMB. Or lets just say Skype decides to change their setup. Sony has to be on top of this aside from their anti-piracy chase, which Sony is entitled to.

If the consumer/end-user was just following the order of operations for the system and, had the end-user not received the new data that Sony approved/released, kept the system in working order then it is the Sony software that broke the system.

Another PS3 of the same model, new or used, could be put into a controlled environment, updated with the 3.0 update and be rendered non-functional.The result is faulty software design that does not operate on all hardware revisions. But, since the end-user only has the choice of "Network Update", it's balls to the walls for Sony.

Herman Miller chairs are my recommendation. The designs of their support arms underneath the seat is amazing. I only have an entry level chair thats from the mid 90's but the design standard of HM chairs are superior to any other brand office chair ranging back to the 70s. Check it out www.hermanmiller.com. They are not cheap. But it's worth at least knowing what your spine is missing out on.