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Yes, but can you play Transformers Prime on a Transformer Prime tablet?

Argh, why did you take a perfectly good PNG screenshot and turn it into a hideous JPEG?

PNGs for simple graphics with flat colors and text, JPEGs for photos.

And this soon after a price drop? Probably clearing inventory to make way for a new version.

Even so, this finally brings the Kindle into a price that's worthwhile for me. Done deal!

You know who looks stunned and bitter? Those of us who paid $259 recently :(

Amazon used to have a post-order price match, but they did away with it maybe a year ago.

Luke, you switched off your navigation computer! What's wrong?

"The salary's made up of the ¥900 ($132) local minimum wage and the variable overtime pay."

How is that sub-standard minimum wage? Do you mean compared to the U.S.?

That said, it sounds from the report like minimum wage alone isn't enough to pay the bills, never mind buy that BMW.

Oh boy, 250 Mb/s! That's like 31 MB/s! Oh, wait, that's not amazing at all.

@dnl2ba Oh, and I've posted some gripes over at Ars Technica's OpenForum.

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=20034540#p20034540

The Vaio Z is something like 1.3" thick in back. It's not a thin machine.

I've seen a really wide spread of battery life test results for this thing. The impression I get is that the really intensive tests (video, benchmarks) make it drain its battery really quickly, but the light tests (web surfing) let it get something close to 8 hours. The UL30Vt-A1 / UL80Vt-A1 seem to have a narrower spread, faring well even under intensive tests.

I've had mine for a week and haven't really had occasion to let the battery run down, but I'll at least say Windows seems to think it has 7-8 hours of battery life left when I have the screen at about 70%.

@AdamWill The Vaio Z's battery won't hold out for 9.5 hours.