Agreed, and it looks like whoever did it did not know about the elliptical marquee selection tool. For even more weirdness. Go to their PowerBook selection page and check out the 12.1". These look nothing like actualy 12" PowerBooks. The optical drive is on the side, not on the front, and...

I would be more interested in the quality of the paint job itself. Good masking is something I could do on my own, but selecting high quality bases, paints, and enamel to protect it from scratches would be something I know less of. Also of importance is the feel of it, especially since the track...

I think it is fixed now. I have both articles linked in the edited response.

Quote: Originally posted by hempcamp From the looks of it, this is probably based on a pretty cool iBook mod you could probably do to the iPod yourself: That is the first thing I thought of too. I have even considered taking mine apart and seeing what the feasibility of modding it...

Here is the Google News affiliate link for those who do not have an account, or do not wish to register their personal info to New York Times: Music at Your Fingertips, and a Battle Among Sellers --Edit Oops, my bad. Here is the other article. Guts of a New Machine: Guts of a New...

Quote: Originally posted by bangraman For direct comparison on a PC, you can use the Sony Sonicstage software itself (I'm sure you can go somewhere and download it) to encode the MP3 / CD recording to ATRAC 132K format. And of course any MP3 playback software (I recommend Foobar if you're...

Quote: Originally posted by JiPi Those would be the 'behind the neck' style of headphones Hence the 'earclips' and then 'headband' (which is really a neckband.. yea). Ha! I didn't realize they actually made headphones intended for this. I had always thought it was just people...

Quote: [i]133dpi?!.. What type of laptop is this?! I'm not aware of any LCD or CRT monitor made with more than 72 dpi...[/B] The screen tech is available from quite a few stock manufactures. It is a UXGA LCD. Mine fits 1,600 x 1,200 pixels into a 15" screen. On the software side...

Chalk me up as another comforted user. It took me a little while to get accustomed. I am not sure if my ear canal actually adjusted to them, or if I just learned a better way to wear them. The first week was really painful, I almost sent them back. Nowadays, I don't even know they are in. It...

Quote: Originally posted by scottder Hell even the "adjustable" ones don't fit on my big melon And I am in the opposite camp with such a small head that I just looked on in confusion when people talked about the horrible clamping effect of Sennheisers. Heh, they feel fine to me, a...

Quote: Originally posted by lindrone Color screen is just that much easier to read. We're used to it, regardless of how useless it may seem, it makes a huge subconscious difference in readability and usability. Actually it is not so subconscious. After all, nobody has ever...

Quote: Originally posted by lindrone I think he was referring to kilobytes, not kilobits. That's about the right number for kilobytes per second, it is definitely 1440 kilobits per second... Either way.. I'd be happy just to see a color screen + some sort of lossless compression...

Not as if any of us would ever use them, but what is with the hybrid clip-on headphones in the first picture that still have a head strap thing -- and why isn't it adjustable? Surely it isn't flexible enough to accomodate all head size comfortably. Those are just really weird looking headphones.

Quote: Originally posted by Fish Tank X To everyone who's wondering, bluetooth has a theoretical max of 128K/s. That's very, very close to redbook audio's bitrate. It'd be entirely feasable for an iPod to broadcast a FLAC/Monkey's audio stream to another iPod in real time. Well...

Quote: Originally posted by lindrone ...but in reality bluetooth's bandwidth is way too low to make any sizeable file transfer. Yes, by the numbers BlueTooth under optimum conditions is just a shade slower than USB 1.1. It would take hours to transfer anything, and with the added...