I shopped around a while ago and the prepaid plans for all of the major carriers sucked. They are still very expensive.

Just wanted to add a quick note, I've been using Firefox for all my webapps just because of Better Greader (which isn't available for Chrome), but I recently found Reader Plus extension for Chrome - [chrome.google.com] So now I can use Chrome which takes up less space on my netbook's small screen.

The more streaming content the better. I hate dealing with those dumb red envelopes.

@aaron.lawrence: Yes this should work the same with Boxee as it does XBMC (as far as I know).

@derek.newland: I've used media monkey to fix up my MP3 library with tags and organizing and naming and everything. From what I've seen if your library isn't well kept it will take some effort to get it in good shape.

Where's the creativity? How do they not call that thing a Drorganizer?

@gonzoearth001: I replaced my old slider dumbphone with a new slider dumbphone because the screen was so scratched I could barely read texts. It's just a phone and keeping it pristine and scratch free really wasn't a concern.

@timgray: Boxee combines XBMC, Hulu and Netflix

What I want from Google TV:

This isn't working for me... I'm using W7 and have Boxee and WMC installed. The Hulu integration works, but the Boxee one won't... strange.

Voting from my Jolicloud eeePC 4G (with the 7" screen). The best OS for small netbooks by far.

I'm a big fan of Linux Mint it saves me an hour or so of configuring plain Ubuntu.

@Rask: I just tried out Jolicloud on my eeePC 4G and it works great on there. Jolicloud is a definite contender especially for netbooks.

I wouldn't pay more than half of the paperback price. They can't really fool young people into thinking that selling e-books really costs as much as a dead tree version. There's zero manufacturing and distribution costs. It's a pure profit grab.

I followed your original posts about making a HTPC and I settled on the Acer Aspire Revo 1600 for $200. It works great for XBMC and with a few tweaks it runs Boxee quite well.

@Jason Fitzpatrick: Right on in defense of netbooks.

This iPad is not a good competitor to any netbooks. The ipad can't multitask and it doesn't do flash. It's just an oversized ipod touch.

None of them are good at ripping TV shows from DVDs very well other than DVD Shrink with Mutishrink or whatever that script is. They're all lacking for sure.

@DeadPenguin: They're both great, Boxee just adds on to XBMC. I've been testing both and I'm personally leaning toward Boxee just for the extra streaming content.

I've never bought anything through Woot yet but I check it every day for the great writing in the descriptions. I hope the user generated descriptions are as good.