Some points to note as a Mini owner and occasional contributor at www.mydellmini.com: 1)Minis are capped with a 16gb solid-state drive if you choose WindowsXP; you can get up to a 64gb drive if you choose Linux 2)Many geeks are buying bare naked Minis with 512mb memory and 4gb drives for $250, and then equipping them with aftermarket runcore 64gb drives and 2gb of memory (another $200 for upgrades). To get the price low, they buy the Linux system and then load Windows or OSX (I know, kinda sick but they are talking about it on mydellmini.com) Bottom line: I think these numbers are skewed by geeks and bargain hunters.

Another loser company with no viable products that wants to sue their way to fortune. Perhaps Psion could seek advice from Daryl McBride.... oops, looks like they may have already. I'm typing this on my new, shiny, NETBOOK and it isn't labeled Psion. Thanks to the efforts of lame companies like this; netbook prices from actual netbook manufacturers will be higher so they can pay the attorney fees to defend themselves from stoopid lawsuits. Thanks, Psion. Makes me all anxious to buy from you. Oh wait, nevermind, you don't actually make a netbook.

My mother-in-law always tries to press the F2 key after turning on her computer because it says to... What it really says is "Press F2 to run setup". When she is fast enough and gets into the system setup menu; she calls me and says her computer is broke (again). Problem solved when I upgraded her PC. I set the new mainboard to not display bootup messages and show a full screen splash image. My brother-in-law threatened to break her finger if she touched F2 again; that also helped but I don't have the heart for that approach. She has had XP for 5 years and it works great. Compatibility is more important to her than being leet and running linux; we use Ad-Aware, AVG, Thunderbird, and Firefox. I ensure she has the proper browser plugins and disable auto-update on the third party software so nothing changes when I am not there (I do let Windows and AVG get updates).

Wow, you are one h*ll of a Monday morning quarterback. I guess driving a car to and from work makes me qualified to race in the Daytona 500. You think *playing* paintball in the woods is somehow similar to what the people at VT experienced? I imagine there is a huge difference in what they experienced and what you think you would have done to make it all end up differently. Get a clue, it is real easy to think up good answers when you are sitting on your a** writing a hollywood script, but I bet it looked a lot different to those people as they watched their friends die.