That would be great. I would love to see the demise of BD and Macbook simultaneously. Yeah!

So wha happen to the $899 price point?
As usual, nowhere to be found. Good luck Apple in this new economy. Only fanboys need apply (buy).

And who was in charge of the design? Why does this thing look uglier than a Vaio?

I just picked up 3 Acer Aspire 16:9 15.4" notebooks for $399 and they include Core Duo, DVD DL, media card reader slot, PC card slot and 3 USB on one side. Because of its 16:9 design, it has a separate numeric keypad. Cool.
It also has a Synaptics trackpad that supports multitouch. Talk about beating apple to the punch!

Surprisingly, it is very fast booting and navigating, even with Vista SP1 on it.
I was going to erase it and do XP, but right now, no need.

Better than a Netbook (which doesn't come with a optical drive, and is often fugly also).

ok people.

you can waste your typing away on perpetuating the 'format' wars as well as the 'flame' wars if you want.

meanwhile, us reasonable people who know a good deal on a upscaling hd player when we see one, are starting to have fun with it.

two cool hacks, that sorta prove how 'consumer awesome' the hd format was/is is making the rounds:
- burn hd video to sd dvd-r discs method is looking pretty cool. I tried the demo iso download and played it on my A2 and it displays all resolutions from 704 all the way up to 1920 full hd on my 'crappy' vizio 50 plasma (w/ hdmi & faroujda).
- for you foreign film fans, there is a region free hack to make the
hd players pal and region free so you can play all those sdvds you bought online or while on vacation in akihabara!
- finally, there is a hd dvd clearance sale thread so it looks like red folks are busy snatching up great deals like the planet earth set and the hdscape set for $29 each. I just got some awesome pron titles too! :P

Time better spent, than 'wars,' if you ask me.

Who knows, this might make the blu folks turn red! ...in more ways than one! :D

I have been purple for over a year, but Long Live Red!

i am on my 3rd imac g5 from costco in 2 weeks. thank god i got it from there.
i have a video of the last problem, the infamous "imac beep of death:" http://digg.com/share/iMac_G5_Beep_of_Death