ugh

I just typed a huge blog entry about this stupid little machine, only to loose it all by hitting a link.

I guess I'll condense it all into this: good marketing, bad hardware. Here's a quote:

"market research that says teens are considered the tech gurus in today's families and dictate electronics purchases"

"tech gurus" my ass. Tweens are the number 1 biggest offenders in destroying perfectly good machines. The Hip-E looks slow enough as it is (1.5 Ghz CPU?), and they'll only make it worse.
Teens would enjoy the bells and whistles, but once the thing starts to slow to a crawl they'll wish they didn't spend $1700 on it.

There's a reason the Hip-E's the first of its kind. Making a PC that balances performance and power is hard enough. Trying to do that and market it to finicky teens is impossible.

P.S.- two new Mega Man reviews at LC 1201, this time for 3 and 4. 5 and 6 should be up tonight