This could potentially replace my Nokia as my emergency phone, especially at that price.

fucking want

If only someone would take a shuffle and map the buttons...

*le-sigh*

@ultimatepwnage

fun? thats been outlawed by seciton C of article 2591 of chapter XII of book 9 of volume 3 of the 12th revision of the Intel x86 instruction set

Yep, it's a netbook.

Better Battery you say?
Now i can do nothing for twice as long!

720p you say?
Too bad the screen is far too small for it to really matter... a portable DVD player would be an upgrade from this due to the inclusion of DVD playback capabilities.

Hyperthreading you say?
Is there anything that can run on this that can even take advantage of it? Office?

Sarcasm aside it's still too much money for a toy.

Thank GOD it has a decent sized keyboard. The problem i have is that afict this is for college students. When i was in college i had a targus backpack and it suited me just fine. It fit my 17in beast and the weight was negilable compared to my engineering books. Later when my classed were spread out i had an attache case, then it became an issue.

My point is as great as this is that it's small, light, and does it's job (and has a decent keyboard), you can still get a better specd machine for $500. Until these little bastards start costing what they are worth ($200?) they just aren't worth it.

the only problem here is that they are at the same pricepoint as Seagate and Western Digital, iomega does not make hard drives, and even though in my experience they have used hitachi and samsung drives, they are not known for anything (other than zip, but we don't want to drag that up do we?)

My point is that anyone who knows anything about computer parts isn't going to trust iomega as much as WD or Seagate (or even Maxtor) and if they are the same price there is no competition. However, if iomega undercut WD/Seagate by $15 or $20 then they would probably be able to sway more customers.

I don't see any winning design here either.

color me not impressed

I had to look at that cable for a second before i realised what was wrong about it.

the eSATA cable is just that, a female cable, used for plugging into a jack.

The SATA end however is also a female cable.

This cable is NOT designed to create a powered eSATA jack/cable, it is infact a cable that would permit the use of a SATA device over eSATA.

This doesn't discredit the fact that a reversed version of the cable exists, or that eSATA will go powered, but the cable does not function in the way you describe it.

:X

actually read the article

oops

excited again

:D

For a second there i thought this was an nVidia Ion board. I got excited.

Still cool, but i'm going to hold off to see how the Ion benchmarks against this. This would be a great little NAS box or even SD media center, but for serious HD streaming etc. i'd feel better with a little bit more... you know... graphical power.