Seriously, why on earth would you want to ruin a Pre by putting WinMo on it? Dual booting Android, yes please. But seriously, WinMo? Especially 6.1. Gag me

Guess it's a good thing that these are the same guys are working on the iControlpad then?

But no, the iPhone does not blow this out of the water in the job that the Pandora is intended for. For dedicated emulation, this thing has a visibly higher frame rate and better sound timing that the iPhone. I'm not saying that that's due to hardware limitations on the iPhone, but it's much easier to do it on this, not to mention the bountiful tactile controls. I've played Sonic 3D Blast on my iPhone, and it sure as hell wasn't near as smooth as that

Seriously, now that I think about it a bit more, Steve has been referring to the 'coming months' more than usual. Like at Macworld this year he pointed out how it was only 3 weeks into 2008 and so much had happened already, but that there was still so much left to come. The MacBook Air was certainly no lightbulb in terms of innovation, and a new iPhone wasn't either since it was expected by absolutely everyone. Something big is about to happen, and at less of a premium price than is usually accompanied with new Apple releases. And the biggest target market isn't displays or Apple TV/HDTV combos, since those are already so cut-throat and hard to succeed in. Apple will use all of its technology with multi-touch and OSX and god knows what to redefine computers, like they've redefined music players and cell phones. It's gonna be flippin sweet.

Radical new laptop designs. "Technology that no other company has." All I know is whatever Apple does, its going to be a game-changer. They wouldn't hype it that much to just drop prices and have minimal redesign on existing products.

The rumor isn't over the picture, Engadget Mobile posted about that same picture over 3 weeks ago (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/04/04/colorware-photoshop-or-iphone-2/), they were just reusing the picture to emphasize the "Next iPhone"-ness that they were talking about. The article is strictly to point out the new hardware specs.

Yea, I want more of those incredible OLED's, more than some 3G tech for my iPhone or Android phones. Phones are nice, but c'mon, a million to one contrast in a design less than 20mm thick?

Wow, this Charlie Brooker fellow is an ass. Reading his article gave me the image of a five year old with his fingers in his ears yelling "Nah nah nah, I'm not listening!!!" Honestly, open your mind a little. These are, in fact, just computers.

And I resent being categorized as an Apple zealot just because I own a Mac. I love Apple, I respect Steve Jobs, but I respect Bill Gates and Windows too. Competition is the catalyst for innovation, who knows what our computers would look like if Gates and Microsoft hadn't nearly destroyed Apple altogether?

Oh my god a gadget site covering a technology conference? Holy shit, why the hell would they do that? Seriously, Engadget, stop and listen to jborneman here, he has a wonderful, well thought out point. It's not like this is the biggest Apple event of the year and anything that happens, whether good or bad will affect the rest of the consumer electronics industry.

Seriously, how about you just skip over the posts if you don't care. No one gets on here to read you complain about how hard it is to move your finger a little bit more to skip over the articles or being 'forced' to read comments made by Apple fan boys. Engadget blogs about every piece of technology news under the sun, and today, it happened to be about Apple. Get over it.

If only...

Thank you Colin, for that profound bit of rhetoric. You have thoroughly persuaded me not to buy this product.

I think Apple is ahead of the times here. The world is not wireless, although we are well on our way to becoming one. Businesses still run hard wired networks, not all printers have bluetooth, etc, etc. Not everyone carries around adapters or AirPort Expresses for these 'ancient' technologies. I expected more of Steve Jobs to see that the world is not ready for this yet, but it's also a case to be made that he's as much of a genius as ever and sees the potential here wants to get his foot in the door while the UMPC is still young, so when the price and technology is right Apple will already be dominating the industry.

To the rest of you though, who cannot see this product for what it really is, it is a UMPC. It might have been listed above the MB in the product line, but it is really lower. And since it is a UMPC, it is stuck in limbo with the rest of today's Ultra Mobiles. Until companies can somehow lower the price to match the smaller size and power, UMPC will be extravagance buys for those who want them as status icons. How can someone justify paying $1800 for a computer when you can buy a $1000 one that might be a little bigger and heavier, but has a better array of storage, processing speed, and other features? This is not Apple's flaw, this is the flaw of the UMPC. But since Apple has stepped in now, like the rest of their products, change will occur. Take a stroll through Best Buy and look at the other offerings in the Ultra Mobile category. I did the other day and was toying around with a Sony one that also cost $1800 and had a 7 inch screen, miniature keyboard, and a 1.2 GHz processor. The MacBookAir is a fantastic UMPC, not laptop. I'll bet my iPhone that a few months from now Apple will be able to come around touting sales figures that show that the MacBookAir out sold every other UMPC combined, by far.

This will be another gorgeous, innovative Apple product that will probably be admired by the masses and bought by the few. And for some of us, its a matter of resisting of buying it just because of how gosh darn sexy it is