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what is the speculative price?

$300 last I heard. It creeped up from the original $200. But $300 is still well within the realm of "awesome".

$300 is a completely awesome price. The closest alternative (Wifi touchscreen PC) is Asus EEE Top PC at $500: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220...

And CrunchPad sounds a lot more usable than carrying a bulky touchscreen.

Always Innovating has a detachable-touchscreen netbook for $400

http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/

And that piece has just an 8,9" screen and an ARM processor.

Replying to ieatpaste because of nesting limits:

The Always Innovating Touch Book looks pretty good but it's on Pre-Order. Asus is currently available in the market.

It's not a "nesting limit", it's a cooling-off period before the reply link is shown, which increases with nesting. It's supposed to discourage heated back-and-forth replies, which historically have low value. Replying a level up defeats the purpose.

PG, if you're reading: Instead of delaying the display of the reply link, it might be better to instead display the link, but during the cooling-off period make it go to a page explaining why the user can't post right away. (And maybe also make the link a different color?) Otherwise, it simply looks like a bug or artificial system limit.

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