Semantic

Would it be so difficult to make the following?

10-12 inch active slate with a nice surface + felt tip wacom pen
Add resistive touch capabilities, or alternately stick an 8 way joystiq + programmable buttons on it
Weight 700-800g, less than an inch thick
Battery life 4-5 hours
Enough processing oomph to run onenote or evernote, ie not much = more battery life, even an atom would do
16gb ssd + shdc slot
2 Gb RAM
HSDPA
Nice stylish dock

The above wouldn't be too expensive

Now, for expensive, yank out the innards of a Toshiba R600 and stick a dual active/resistive screen, getting rid of the keyboard for even more thinness (0.5 inches) and lightness (should be able to get 600g or so with SSD).

Here's the cunning bit, also do what HTC did with the shift and stick an arm chip in there running windows mobile 6.5 or another instant on light mobile OS and entry program with modest formatting for Onenote or Evernote for lots of battery life, access to the mail inboxes etc. Stick a hardware flip switch so the subsystem can use the main battery, HD etc Heck, these days you could even use the snapdragon or tegra chipset to run this (stick a hdmi port on it too in that case).

Anyone else like the above?

They should buy Sci and sell the bits they don't like - they have more than enough cash to do it with pocket change now.

EA should buy Sci entertainment. Following UK investor hatred of the company, they can get all the lovely IP like Tomb Raider and Hitman for $400m or so. Much cheaper than Take Two and certainly Ubisoft.

I've spoken to a few people at Sony (Jap & US) and squenix recently and was surprised to hear that FF XIII will actually be out at the end of this year.. The demo will be out shortly as a result, should be interestin'.

I played most of these at the Nintendo europe launch. Very shallow games - table tennis capped at 100 rallies getting progressively harder for example (I got the only 100, yay). It comes with the extra controller according to the Nintendites I talked to at the event. Rayman Raving Rabids has more fun midigames from what I tried/talking to Ubisoft directly.