Sure. This is true. But, it's less of a desktop. It's effectively just a monitor with a keyboard/mouse hanging off of it. And that is sometimes worth investment; more screenestate for roundabout less than the price of a laptop + monitor. I've considered one repeatedly just to have a vanilla machine to VPN to…

Ofcourse you're right. It's extremely limiting if you need to be on the bleeding edge for as long as possible. Scientific computing, gaming....,(??). But, if all you're doing is using the web for web's sake, then you don't need bleeding edge performance. Infact, most people make due with an ipad like device and/or…

I'm hearing 3 bullet points from this. First, cars have too much power today. Second, you don't need hp to go fast. And third, if you have hp, it should be appreciated.

This. I tried explaining this to my non-gearhead manual transmission driving friends, and they look at me puzzled. I usually get the "why would you want to do that, you must be crazy" look.

How many cars does this guy have?!

OMG. I just doubled over laughing. A real LOL. Awesome, man.

I honestly thought from the headline this was going to be about our fair Kimi. Would anyone really be surprised?

Ahmen, bra'.

I see your fear and raise you one breakdown in the Holland or Lincoln during rush hour. I'm reasonably sure that a blowout on the skyway or anywhere on 1/9 in that area will be scary and hose my car, but I'm also relatively confident I'd walk away with minor injuries.

PLASSSSTIC!! I'm so tired of cars with plastic things hot glued to every available surface. GM is the absolute worst of the lot (see Volt for reference). The C5 was the opposite of this new me-too direction for the Vette. I miss the simplicity and elegance of the clean surfaces this obviously does not have. Pass.

No idea why an LSD was left out. Mine set me back close to 3k and, so far, is a worthwhile upgrade. I'm not into modding or pretending my only car is a track monster, but the LSD does make spirited drives more fun. It was easy to justify after that.

One more thing- the N54 reaches peak torque at 5k RPMs and is largely linear until readline at 7500. So the last 2k being useless doesn't compute with respect to my butt dyno.

I forgot to ask, are you 6MT or 6AT? The shifter alone on the 6MT is pretty hard to beat until you start spending twice as much on the car and lose the rear seats.

I'm baffled. Color me baffled. It's "decently fast", has "fairly good handling", and feels "well built". What would you consider to be a better package at any price point? By your own measure, it's a pretty good car!

It takes practice, that's all. A car control clinic or two and your instincts will kick in to hit the brake, and you just might, but then you'll remember what that instructor yelled at you in the car about and you'll correct accordingly.

Not to quibble, but if your definition of open is putting a gui + market on top of an already open platform, iOS is equally open.

open-source? Show me the code for the andriod market (Play as it's called now) and the map-reduce implementation google uses to create the "experience" and we'll talk. Giving me the code to UI and calling it OSS is like MS letting people have .Net and calling Windows a community driven ecosystem.

I row a 6MT and I learned very some very generous (and trusting) friends. I never ground gears or burned the clutch. But, the ride wasn't exactly comfortable for anyone involved for quite a while. Perfect downshifts took years (and are still elusive), but I stopped stalling and could get around without a problem…

Thumbs down on the cup holders. With a 6mt, you're going to slam into your ExtraBigAss Big Gulp (TM) going into 1st, 3rd, and 6th. Also, sadly, no LSD in this car either. 300 hp without an effective way to get the power down is kind of a downer. Not the end of the world, but it's something you'd expect from a car…

I agree the Bimmer interiors are a bit of a Frankenstein. It's like someone from the Geek Squad and someone from Star Trek had an ugly baby. But, so do the other photos you've linked. Each one looks like it's trying to look like something from the future. I like the Bimmers of old- analog gauges, dials, knobs,…