Hoop

This is for me !

This is clearly aimed at the adult users of the DS & DSi. The original phat was a pretty comfortable fit in my hands.

I started getting arthritis in my hands in my EARLY 20s (23-24) generally my consoles only get use with the big comfortable controllers(joysticks), and i find myself PC gaming more often simply for issues of comfort now (im 32)

The DS lite(which i currently use daily on my train commute) Hurts my hands to use for long periods, it FORCES casual gaming just due to comfort factor for me. I have issues with playing Gamepad dependent games, and anything using the shoulder buttons But it works fine in "book" orientation, and stylus driven games.
Ive started Bringing my GP32, Lynx or TurboExpress instead recently they are just more comfortable to play.

I'll be watching for a gamestop trade-in deal when they arrive, Plus the dark color is nice compared to my first run White "lite", I could just never justify replacing it for a simple color change, and the DSi was smaller. But for a bigger brighter, More comfortable DS, Sign me up.

-Hoop

Wow! Josh -
Every article of yours I read I like !

Q: - How well does it synchronize between multiple locations? On-the-go and using it on a laptop-talking to a server- for example.

Q: - does it have reasonable time billing and accounting : such as repair charges vs labor - plus plain POS on the parts associated on a repair-
(or is it a work around using employees as "suppliers" of an allotted Line item for labor like some other systems)

- Jason

I think there is one BIG thing thats everyone here is missing that ive found to be a necessity.

Lvl your Bank/auction alt to 25, and TAKE ENCHANTING -
Most people say "What?! enchanting costs?!"- Not so

You want the DIS-enchanting ability here, at lvl 25 you can enchant to 225, and disenchant items up to lvl65 or so -

You auction the greens- the greens that dont sell after 3 times you DE immediately- Now you have a steady supply of Enchant mats to sell or use (a VERY lucrative option), even beginner level "Strange dust" sells for 6-7g a stack on my server, and dont get me started on the 50+g dusts and shards that you stumble across DE'ing Random "useless" greens and blues

Whats with all the Dev trolls for auctioneer?

The new auctioneer is horrible. Period.

Auctioneer classic was loved BECAUSE it was so simple, its the 5349858457623948756 options that WE DONT like.

Branch it. - Move the advertisment features, the autobuy Etc into another Add,

Give us back the simple what its worth, sell all stacks features into a "new" classic - Minus all the BS. - i dont care if it needs to scan every time i visit the auction house.. its the clusterBeepd settings that are killing it.

if there was a checkbox on the first page of options that said "Make it look like and work like classic" - it would solve this .. as it is i spent nearly an hour screwing with the settings (FAR FAR FAR from intuitive & with really POOR explanations of what each setting does) and still have "settled" for where i have it.

the Classic Auctioneeer was Simple, intuitive , and easy to use , the new one is None of these.

- Berating your Users for telling you they DONT like what your doing IS Poor PR , i dont care who you are or what you're working on.

-As for Buggy - ITS EXTREMELY buggy , even on Vanilla WoW (ONLY auctioneer installed), i get a tool tip error EVERY time i sign in and mouse over ANY item(every login), it errors on quite a few reagents regularly and chokes on pets/mounts items - sinister squashling comes to mind.

A few weeks ago (im only lvl'ing my second toon) a 15 'Lock, i got ganked 6 times while on the longshore in Westfall,(by a lvl61 warrior- Thumbs up winnar) culminating in some affliction that left my Own Voidwalker dealing 60+ damage to my entire party for something like 5 minutes.

Every time i summoned him the whole group would start chewing me out. Took forever for me to figgure out i need to just take him out far far away , make him stay , and wait a good distance from him.

On a side note , i see the Druid brotherhood feeling on my Druid, ive never had a foul encounter with another druid unless it was in warsong.

53,000 CMon interwebs!

i'd Give it:

FireWire ports, FW800 preferred (4 Pin at the very least)
3d Accelerator, The Nvidia Go or an ATI 24-2600 Equivalent

i'd lust after it even with a 1" smaller display ,and 1/8" thicker case

For now , its an expensive macbook,yes a pretty one, but its no Pro.

Who cares about the Optical, But give me an external one that will work on other machines not something "special" for one machine, that makes it 3x as expensive 3 years from now when i need a replacement(like the Air's).

i think the price-point is right on, its the feature-set thats wanting.

Looks like I'm still waiting for a 12" Macbook Pro.

Hahaha we always call it the gerbil d--k. i hate those things.

Now that I have Blazing Lazers , i need no more shooters... my TG16 has been hooked up continuously since I got then game .. No im serious .. since like 1990.

Blazing Lazers on the VC now finally lets my TG16 have a break

Now Gimme SMB:A FF2&3, KI, MK2,and SFII:turbo on SNES and Cobra Triangle on NES.

i hope one day i can get AvP: Atari jaguar on VC so i can retire that machine too.

What about the whole Cobra Triangle VS Cobra Command

Cobra Triangle Has got to be one of my MOST favorite NES games EVARRRRRR!

RARE buts out an AWESOME Pro-Am engined Boat Racer complete with power ups and the classic RC Pro am sound effects, VS Jaleco's Bad Chopper command Remake