Reality check, since when did you think apple was open about anything? That's just their marketing fud.

DDR3 ?

I think the point here is that Dell is out innovating Apple. Apple has historically been a leader in innovation among the bigger companies(Ipod, Iphone, OSX, etc) and Dell well... Dell is best known for rebaging other peoples stuff.

Sure maybe it does cost $900 to get a decent setup but if you want Blueray, etc you are going to have to pay for it, the drives just aren't that cheap.

Either way it does appear to have almost all the bits to be a killer machine (the only thing missing was the HD TV tuner as pointed out by a previous poster) and it's basically better than the Mac mini, the AppleTV or both the products combined. Considering Apple is the one talking about becoming the centre of peoples digitals homes then the fact that they don't have a competitor to this seems like a huge gaff, infact they should have had one with the Apply TV.

I got a 4850 on the weekend and my computer has been transformed into a tiny god dedicated to processing pixels, trapped in an aluminium box.

The 4800's really are impressive.

ooh baby x300, want!
I have to agree with you #8 and #11
perhaps I just have fat hands but I don't understand how someone can type effectivly on a laptop with a trackpad.

The cover of this book is awesome,
the concept of this book is amazing,
the first half of the book is very enjoyable.

I in no way recommend this book to anyone,
the second half of the book rapidly devolves into
some sort of monkey sex fantasy. No I am not exagerating, the second half of the book is mainly about having sex with monkeys.

I definately agree with #3, one of the worst books I have read recently.