Jasper

Amazing, not? And it looks good. BAM! Two flies, one slap.

Actually, iTunes supports XP SP2 or higher, and it's been doing that for about a year now - honestly, the fault is not iTunes, it's yhe manufacturer of your computer or parts and their drivers. No internet on SP2? It's not your iPod, it's your computer. And there's no way to reset you iPod to previous updates - however, you might want to put iPod Linux on it to make it happen through that, but that would void your warranty, if you still have it off course.

Here's another great thing about the ipod touch: it's screen's resolution is the same as your printer - 160 dpi, making it incredibly sharp and usefull to read text on.

Capacity will go up, prices won't go down - sorry.

No device that will legably break you into networks, not even an iPod - but connecting is a breeze. If it can't find a network it knows, it asks the moment you log on to select one of the possible networks in the surrounding. The Nopkia internet tablet sounds like a good deal, but honestly - I can't believe any browser experience without a pointing devive could everf be usefull.

Have you registred the iPod with that specific computer and iTunes account? Else you'll have to tell the iPod to sync specificaly with that library. However, that would mean the iPod synced with another computer before that. If it doesn't work, check Apple's website - it'll certainly help you solve the problem. If it doesn't, go to the local Apple reseller and ask him to look at it and eventually replace it if it still doesn't work.

The touch pad is fine, and the point is: browsing on an iPod Touch or iPhone is the simplest and best browsing experience you'll find on a mobile device. However, you have some opther options. The PSP has got a browser, even skype included, but the experience is all but great (really, I tried it and it's incredibly hard, clumsy and web pages, like wikipedia, look deformed and odd). I don't know much more about these, but I'm seriously telling you: an iPod Touch is great for browsing. Even though it lacks fysical keypads, it's much faster than any other browser because you're simply pointing and clicking with you finger. I love browsing on it, and typing on a PSP is honestly a no-go. I don't know any other mobile platform that executes surfing so well (and the lack of flash: you won't miss it). I'm not saying this as an Apple-'fan', I'm honestly speaking out of those two experiences. I can't imagen a device driven by keys can surf as good as Safari. Safari is a great browser, even on mobile. I'de stick at that option: the extra's are great, the ease of use is fantastic and the email and safari application are both examples of how it should be done on mobile devices. And, believe it from me, you'll get used to that touchpad much quicker than you'de think, it just requires some learning (that means: trial and error for three days, occassional mistake once in a while after that).

Welcome to hell. Thank IE6 for it, and tell your dad that if hios sites don't work in IE7, they're probably not good anyway since they are made for Microsoft standards, wich doesn't even ensure that it works in the next version of Microsoft apps. Get your ass on a reinstall, or a good anti-virus. Try AVG free Edition - it performs scans and secures your system for free, and it's even better than Norton (or Microsofts own OneCare).

If you base the OS around Media Storage, it isn't a PC anymore - it's a media centre, that's it. However, I was making a price comparison. I'm assuming Asus wants to make equal profits as Nintendo on these things. So adding a little hard drive and RAM to the Wii setup, including an optical drive (though this one shouldn't be able to read GameCube-sized discs, so it will be cheaper) and you've got a good PC for about $350. That would make a good thing, no?

Honestly, has anyone ever seen a computer without a disc drive? Servers, yes - that's something different. I'm not sure, but lacking a disc-drive is a strange idea since optical media are not going away anytime soon. And with 'even Linux needs a disc drive' I mean that to listen to your CD's or watch your DVD's - two integral components and compelling reasons to buy a computer these days - you need a disc drive. I didn't say you couldn't live with Linux without it. And I personally think that Asus is going to deliver an OS anyway, Sanchez. It's not like you're going to get an empty computer, and Asus provides the OS on it's website. Updates over the internet, yes - very possible - and some implementations actually pull it off (I'm looking at MacOS, wich has easy updates - no clumsy web-based system like XP). Lack of a disc drive, however, in a desktop enviroment, is for me unforgiveable. And just for the sake of knowing this: if you would build a computer with the same components as the Wii - PowerPC G3, Disc drive, certain amount of RAM - and add a little more Hard Drive to it (say, 40 Gb?), wouldn't you have an Asus Eee PC? I mean price-wise... Would be cool, actually. Although I think the Wii lacks RAM and therefore will be hard to pull of an Operating System - but add, say, 512 Mb of RAM (for 40 bucks?) and we've got a nice sub-300 system, that makes barely any profit. Sorry, just thinking out loud...

Even Linux needs a disc drive, so don't whine to me, you're always trying to make a problem of nothing. AZnd it's exactly for these kind of computers that Microsoft expanded the lifetime of XP to 2011, so we're seeing these with Windows sometime in the future, wether you like it or not. Just like the laptop already succumbed to Microsoft's XP-power...

Yes, but the question that's discussed is: why would you pay for a computer that can do les just because it's light? Is light an enormous factor? Pedople were carrying the 100-ton laptops of yore too, and they can be happy it's reduced to a couple of pounds. Honestly, for what's inside the Air, it's overpriced. A MacBook is cheaper, faster and has all those functions you'de like to pay for. But this isn't the MacBook discussion. Though I still doubt that leaving a disc drive out of the Eee PC might be a stupid mistake, since every desktop has a CD drive. MacBook Air, as a laptop, doesn't - but that's it. If they buy a Windows Machine, they are used to disc drives.

And people were complaining about the MacBook air. Although, the objective of MacBook air was slim, not cheap. Nevermind, then...

I personally think it looks more like an external hard drive - and so does the Wii, except, well, for that disc slot glowing blue (and making my mom insane if I'm not home - she even unplugged the thing because the blue light next to the tv distracts). But okay, if you start out by saying it looks like a Wii, then off course everyone is going to think that. I could do a comparison list, and the only thing that looks alike is the box-shape (roughly three dvd's stacked together?) and a blue light, but not disc slot. Wait a second - it doesn't have a disc slot... That's not right, is it?

So now Nintendo owns that Angle? You guys are really trying to find a needle in a haystack.

Mac mini as in 'low-cost' computer, or as 'it looks like it'. I'm guessing the first, though it's not really that expensive as a mac mini, and at least it runs Linux instead of Windows. :wink: I really think that this stand has barely any resemblance to the Wii stand, though. It lifts the thing up, and it doesn't really look as plastic as Wii's...

Having a stand is the only thing that refers to the wii, glossy white was stolen from iPods in the first place, the Box shape is stolen from, say, every device you can think of and the blue light is nothing original either. Again, we need a bad guy to steal from Nintendo. It looks barely like a Wii...

If you look at it, actually, this looks barely like a Wii...

The worst thing about it is that I forgot I said that completely.

Apple is just as reliable, and nobody has ever denied that. Macs are stable and reliable computers, and iPhone's are reliable Phones. I barely hear anything about iPhone crashes. And preferation doesn't really matter into wich is the best, is there? But a matterof taste discussion was on the mac forums once before, and it turned out to be a total dissaster so let's not go there anymore. (To give an example of how big a dissaster it was: I was deemed to be right by the moderator (wich, according to him, 'rarely happens')). But, well, value for money and all that - completely right. The only thing you pay for with Apple is that it's sure to just work. Is that wiorth the extra money? Could be, could be not. I'm willing to spend it, just for the ease of use by touching and tapping your way around the device. Now if Windows Mobile could take the Apple route, eliminate all the crapware avaible to get the same software as the iPhone, then it might be ompetitive. But it's turning into and iPod discussion, so I'm letting this one go. For Now...

Honestly, you're just aying that we have to wait for Nokia to make an iPhone before the iPhone can be the ultimate gadget. Apple isn't really restricting developers - they are, however, keeping them from harming battery life of their system. There aren't much restrictions - there's even Voice over IP allowed. Daemons are not allowed because those background processes drain battery life and lower the speed. I don't know any other restrictions Apple has laid on developers except not using daemons. I wonder why you people don't believe the iPhone to be the mighty gadget it is, and all want Nokia to run with the fantasy... Anyway I am wondering... I think the most exceptional, freaky and certainly most inspector-gadget like gadget is the Sony Rolly. Once you've seen it move, you see advertisements of it in your nightmares. Freaky thing.

Yes, internet on the iPhone is pretty good. Wes, you're talking rubbish. Everyone that uses Apple products is, in that sense, lazy. But let's look at that idea for a second. Apple users aren't lazy. Apple users are productive. Because they don't have to bother with setting up their systems, making too many insignificant choices. Apple users aren't lazy, Windows users are just overactive. Why? Because without properly tweaking and setting up your system, Windows just won't cut it. Macs are made to work out of the box. Pop the electricity in the connection, and you're set to play a nice game of ches, do some work and surf the internet. No connecting an extra screen, wondering why your printer isn't working, noticing your network doesn't really connect and asking yourselves why ypu can't find yuour Bluetooth phone. Windows users are used to jump through a lot more hoops than mac users, and that doesn't make mac users lazy. It makes mac users smarter. People are always critisizing Apple users for being stupid, without choice and lazy, and that's because Windows users have the exact opposite (not only Windows, just everything but macs in general). They have to make to many insignificant choices (what processor do I need to run Microsoft work in the office? How much RAM to get Messenger working? Vista or XP?) while Apple leaves you those few choices that interest the usual (I say usual because I mean usual) end user. I'm not turning this into a mac vs windows thing again (okay, probably I am, but not with that intention) but accusing iPhone users of lazy is simply stupid. If you have to read the manual before use, it means the product is not made with the necessary detail to make it easy to use. Iphone is made to be as easy to use as a pen, and offering a lot of functionality at the same time. Windows Mobile is hard to use, and you can't even use it properly without a pen. End of comparison.

At least they've taken the Wii box and did something more with it. Looks like a good, cheap system - just like God intended it to.

Touch screens exists for over twenty years now. Dual ARM processors too. Notes, email, SMS, internet, ... there's certainly no innovation in Apple products. However, I'm not going to deny that Apple executes these features much better than it's competitors - but that's besides the point. It's certainly not the revolution, but it's still cool and still a must-have.

I have no idea. Off course you buy into marketing - everyone does. This is about the most popular gadgets, and iPhone isn't the one that's going to win on innovation.