Anyone watching the Apple event?

[famousringo]

Kantor said:

Grimes said:
If I were to carry all my textbooks in my backpack this semester, it would weigh like 60lbs. It sure would be nice if I could replace most of that with a tiny pad. Imagine being able to carry all the books on your bookshelf, all the music in your ipod, all the video on your dvd case on one device. Obviously today the memory is too expensive for all that, but in a few year it's possible.

Yup...right after you've bought it all again (except the music on your iPod).

Why buy it again? Just buy your new media for the device and if you really must have your old stuff on the go, you can go through the trouble of ripping it. Seems better than just resigning yourself to never being able to carry your book/video selection on the go.

The price point is a huge surprise to me. I was expecting around $800. At an entry point of $500, it really is in the netbook range. I might bite sooner rather than later.