Insert many other huge laptops/no battery life comments here. These laptops are for people who want a desktop powered computer that that can transport easily and serious gamers who like to attend Lan Parties. They'd never run them off batteries and they might as well be made without them.

Am I not understanding something here? What's the point of these high refresh rates when the update rates of the images being displayed are unlikely to be greater than 60Hz (games consoles) or 30Hz for TV/video?

@Catdaemon
The price quoted refers to SSD, not traditional drives.

1GBP per GB sounds quite tempting to me, there are some Super Talent 256GB SSDs on the Scan website that clock in at 15.6GBP per GB....

That could have been mildly amusing but the video was the most tedious thing I've ever experienced.

I did consider that it was his sister, but "This video is clearly fake. The geek appears to have a sister" just wasn't funny.

This video is clearly fake. The geek appears to have a girlfriend.

Nintendo Channel launches on the 30th (10 days after WiiWare) in Europe.

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/2008/nintendo_announces_q2_release_schedule_7920.html