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This is the way to go. Buy it, then buy these cheap $3 adapters for full IDE support. No wonder Jobs has cutting PPC support. People are installing these into their PPC Macs to extend the life.
Considering a business can be broken on 0.25% loss, 29% is going to cause a ripple effect that will reduce this company to has-been within five years. And I can smell Ubuntu becoming the replacement OS because that team refused to play ball with M$ over patents, is based in Africa, and will OSX their OS for the OEMs, if the OEMs survive.
I have more fun playing solitaire on my iPhone. Plus I don't have to deal with an over heating Xbox 360 or Vista. Less is more. I will now walk the earth.
Atari Lynx (16-bit, 16 colors), Sega Game Gear (8-bit, 32 colors), NEC TurboExpress (8-bit, lots of RAM, 256 colors), and Sega Genesis Nomad (68k, lots of RAM, 64 colors) all fought against the original Game Boy with the poor, spinach-colored screen and lost.
Neo-Geo Pocket Color (16-bit, 128 colors) and WonderSwan (16-bit, over 256 colors) (in it's 3 flavors), and Nintendo's own Virtual Boy (32-bit, 256 shades of "red") lost against the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, which was a weak machine. The Game Boy Color had the same Z80 CPU found in the 1979 series of computers.
Currently, Sony's PSP can't even come close to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance, DS, or DSi systems. Sony's lost so much money that they've made a new version of the console WITHOUT a disk drive to allow download only to save money. Zune is a joke. And an unfunny joke at that. It can't come near iPod Video, Classic, Nano, Touch, or iPhone sales.
Which means, iPod Touch/iPhone is the closest thing to a competitor Nintendo has in portable gaming! The way Zune went, how will M$ convince people to buy their console? Nintendo changed the game and made the common person and their families the gaming target audience again, like in 1988 with the original NES.