Heck yeah! I'm ready to ditch optical drives altogether because it seems like weeks go by between my use of the one on my current laptop. And, even when I am using the optical drive, it's usually just for watching a Netflix DVD at home, so I could just keep the USB DVD-RW drive at home if I wanted to use one that…

A shame Dell couldn't do this with a 13-inch laptop and bring the price down to $800 with a more standard resolution, a 5400-rpm HD, and an i3 processor for those of us just looking for a nice-looking PC laptop for school use. I'll be keeping my eye out for this laptop next year when I'm looking to upgrade from my…

Engadget's battery test got closer to 3 hours and 41 minutes, but I trust Laptop Mag and PC Mag a lot more. This seems like a good value computer. Knowing quite a few PC gamers (though I'm not one myself) this could be a solid back-to-school laptop with enough moderate power to keep my classmates busy during boring…

The print version of Wired is worth subscribing to, as they often include very cool and thoughtful design elements to their magazines. The "Lost" edition magazine with all of its mystery-themed articles and page elements was very awesome. Save yourself the $20, pick up a copy of Wired from a bookstore and just take…

the hipster video is the internet version of:

So, not quite "ghost riding the whip"?

"every time one of you people"

Reporting on a new admission by the people in charge over in Japan is not "sensationalism". I am glad this article was posted and do care about what's going on over there even if it's not affecting me directly.

Yeah, along came the cries of "sensationalism" about every single article even updating the information coming out of Japan. I was always skeptical because I know well enough not to trust governments in times of crisis. That doesn't mean I was stockpiling a fallout shelter with toilet paper, canned peaches, and duct…

I was just thinking, "This would be awesome if I could afford to live in the city."

I have an Amazon Cloud Drive, but I found it time-consuming to upload documents because I had to do them all individually, except for music which does have a mass uploader. Unless I'm missing something on the site, Amazon lacks a desktop client for uploading large amounts of documents to Cloud Drive, which I would…

Yeah, I was thinking a lot of the same things. I wonder if really what Moto and a lot of other handset manufacturers & cellular carriers want to do is neuter Android by dissecting out Google's applications and put in their own versions that are generating income for the carrier via side deals. Then, they can block…

I know you're making a dig at Obama, but practically everything you mentioned him doing sounds mad baller.

Right, 2.2 isn't awful, and Honeycomb needs even more fine-tuning before I'll jump onboard anyways. This is fine for a more budget-oriented device. Definitely not geared for the Xoom crowd, but you get what you pay for.

No one disagrees that churches and religious figures played an important role in the Civil Rights movement, but that doesn't prove that religion on its own forced the change or was the integral part. The fact is that the African American community (and a lot of other minority communities) use churches/temples as…

Ah, no Macbook upgrade? :( I was hoping they'd be bringing back the black Macbook with the new announcement.