DRM free, and available on multiple different platforms? I think I have a name for that: the internet.

@Steve B Spot on. I could do it, but I'd probably have to look up precisely how to beforehand. On that browser. That I didn't have.

@(Unverified) Amen. If you want to force openness and innovation, mandate that whatever system (CableCARD, whatever) be built into all TVs from, say, 2014. Disallow the cable companies from charging for them. You want a CableCARD, it's yours, free (at least for, say, the first 3). This would do a number of things: it would cause consumers to move in that direction (free is better than paying for a cable box), it would reduce waste (not another box sucking power), it would push the price of the technology down due to mass production, and it would spur innovation because once these things are ubiquitous instead of a niche, there's more incentive to develop for them.
People don't want to pay for the extra tuner? Fine, although this would make the technology cheaper, there's nothing stopping them from buying a monitor with an HDMI port and no tuners at all, and plugging the box in there.

Bonus points for making satellite compatible.

@InnocentEd That's what I'd been wondering. I keep hearing about this drive at a mythical $85 price point, but $130 is what I keep seeing. I'd get one at $85, but $130 for 40gb is too high, especially as an extra $15 will get you the 64gb version.

@Skate It Dont Spray It Kingston actually sell this as part of a "notebook" kit as well as the "desktop" kit here. The difference is the desktop kit has the brackets to fit it into a 3.5" enclosure, as here. The notebook kit comes with an external 2.5" USB enclosure, so you can pop the SSD into your notebook, and stick the old HDD into the external enclosure for a free USB drive into the bargain. Which is a darn good deal, IMO.

Seen about 800 E6400s go out in the last few months, no problems yet.

@Will I don't even know. Occasionally I'll notice something I want to add to the DVR list, but I really don't know what's on when. I just look to see what's been recorded and start from there.

What's the best day to watch TV? Whenever I have time. Haven't DVRs rendered this question irrelevant?

Hmm. So you need a screwdriver to use this on a netbook? Why? To replace the hard drive with an SSD? Why can't I just copy the OS onto an SD card or memory key and boot from that?
What I'm most interested in is how easy it's going to be for corporate entities to edit. If you can change what you see on startup, and restrict sites/apps visited, this becomes very powerful. Also for schools (something I'm involved in). If I can get a $200 netbook for every student, restrict them to only access school websites or sites linked to from the central school server, and get Google Apps on a school related domain for them, this is incredibly powerful. But I need to be able to restrict where the students (and possibly teachers) take their device. But in that context this could be a real game changer. A real game changer.

@melkior Gears FTW.