This is a very interesting idea. I don't know how much more of an improvement it is over hanging tennis balls, unless you're worried about small children strangling on the string.

If your garage door opener is directly over your car where you normally park, it wouldn't look too out of place attached directly to that. Plus most garage door openers have outlets nearby for power, so that's not a problem.

Thanks for the post, Julie. I'm sure Apple Legal will be knocking on your door shortly... ;-)

Only teasing. So, are you planning on keeping OS X on there or what? Personally I really like the looks of the Ubuntu netbook distro. That looks really nice, and optimized for netbooks like this puppy.

I don't think Apple would take kindly to a company converting these machines to use OS X. That's basically what Psystar did and Apple shut them down.

I am not a lawyer, but it would seem to me that what an end user does with their legally purchased family pack of OS X with a few licenses left is their business.

Julie: when you get a chance, check out Ubuntu Netbook Remix on their site. It's pretty cool.

Julie,

With all of the things that don't work, I have to ask this question:

What do you gain by using OS X versus something like Ubuntu Remix or the OS that came with the Wind?

This is the last thing either company needs. With Apple and Google (and RIM) breathing down their necks with what many would say far superior OS's, they should have these new softwares out YESTERDAY.

Palm's OS is a great OS, I use it on my Centro, but to the general public it's antiquated and not much better than the software on a free Nokia phone.

I am beginning to think the best option for Palm is to use Android and just modify a few of the layers to build-in Palm OS app compatibility. It's pretty obvious OS 2 won't be out anytime soon. Such a shame.

I think a lot of people have given up on both Palm and WM a long time ago. The iPhone is the new smartphone that doesn't pose itself as a smartphone. Maybe that's the point; it's a phone that has all these amazing new features, but it doesn't poise itself as a business device.