It's Magic, It's wonderous . . . It's an iPhone that can't make calls.

Welcome to the iPad:

http://www.apple.com/ipad/

Looks nice and it's cool but it's just missing some key things.

Nope not going to get one. Now add bluetooth and the option to make calls. Along with a touch more ooomph in the processor department, then we'll talk.

-OUT

Nice reasonable laptop workstation w/o the unreasonable cost.

This Asus G73JH laptop comes with 4 DIMM slots and a core i7 proc. Connect it to some iSCSI storage and BAM! Nice VM homelab.

Details via Engadget! - Link is here - http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/asus-rog-g73jh-launches-with-core-i7-radeon-hd-5870-bragging-r/

It's gotta a new cooling design so that your reproductive parts don't need to be iced down during heavy usage. Don't lie you know what I'm talking about.

Thinking that something this nice must cost the same as a DELL M6500? I checked and it's going to retail for less than $2000. AWESOME!!!

VMware Player creates VM's ... WHAT?!!

So I admit it I have been out of the loop on VMware player for the good bit of 2 years. I have been using workstation for all my VM creation and testing stuff. Then I check out the www.yellow-bricks.com post on creating an ESXi thumbdrive install with VM player and I was like "hold, on, wait a minute.". So it's not new to all you smart people but I guess that you can now create VM's with VMware player. So here is to all you people smarter than myself :).

Here is the link to the post : http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/1/10/vsphere-esxi-4-0-on-a-usb-memory-stick/!

Cool Stuff to know no doubt. :)

Talk to you guys again soon.

OH - P.S. Check out Sakac's post at virtual geek if you want to work at EMC! :P

edit ... spelling errors. Fast typing 4tl.