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>> Diamonds are Molly's best friend. And we'll pop the hood up on a PS three and rip out its heart. It's all coming up on CNET Live. ^M00:00:23 [ music ] ^M00:00:31

>> Welcome to CNET Live. I'm Tom Merritt, Molly Wood filling in for the vacationing Brian Cooley, who assigned himself a day off or something, right?

>> Yeah, he gives himself good assignments.

>> Yeah. So thanks for filling in.

>> Thanks for having me.

>> It was good having you last time, so you, I'm glad that we didn't scare you away.

>> It's like buzz out loud on TV.

>> And with questions. You can call us live, 888-900-CNET is the number. Give us a call, ask us your questions. There's not all that many lines open so you might want to get in there and get your call in right now. We'll be starting the questions in just a few moments, so you have a second. When you do call, Andrea will pick up the phone and get you all lined up, she's in there setting people up right now.

>> Hi Andrea.

>> Hi Andrea, thanks for, it's like a rotating cast in there all the time.

>> It is a little bit. I know you were expecting to see Cooley, but not today.

>> No, Cooley actually is gone this time, he's not just hiding in the phone booth.

>> Yes. All right, I know this is Cooley's line, hey, hey, it's time for Things We Crave.

>> Hey. [ background music ]

>> These are some of our favorite things from the Crave blog at crave.cnet.com. Go check them out for yourself, pick your favorite. Mine this week is the battle of the non-violent robots.

>> That sounds like a conflict in terms there, a little bit of a -

>> Like they would just stare at each other or something.

>> Yeah, what do they -

>> See it's too obvious when you have the violent robots.

>> It's a sit-in, like a robot sit-in.

>> When the violent robots battle, you know what's gonna happen.

>> Transformers.

>> So you got to have the non-violent robots battling.

>> So this is a Crave invention, this [inaudible] tournament.

>> Yeah, this has been going on on Crave for a couple of weeks, we're now into the quarter finals in the different divisions. And the way it works is you go on the site and vote, and then your votes decide who moves on into the next round. So for instance in the prototype division, Asimo [assumed spelling] taking on beer launching fridge.

>> I got to go beer launching.

>> I don't know why Asimo even gets a number one seat here, but beer launching fridge is gonna get that. The Nintendo Ra [assumed spelling] versus the Sony Curio.

>> Nintendo Ra, Cinderella story.

>> Yeah, big Cinderella story there. Marv and the Paranoid Android and Johnny Five in the movie division.

>> Oh, Johnny Five.

>> Boy I got to go with Marvin there.

>> What?

>> Yeah, absolutely. This is the one I still haven't decided who I'm gonna vote for though, Data from Star Trek versus Bender from Futurama.

>> Bender seems frankly kind of violent to me.

>> He's just angry, he doesn't actually kill.

>> All right.

>> So -

>> Not yet.

>> You can go cast your votes at crave.cnet.com, but you also have a crave.

>> I crave -

>> Gold.

>> Gold. You know, I'm not, I'm not so much -

>> It's the pirate thing, yeah.

>> - about the Macbook, getting rid of my Mac Mini, I don't know, you know, whatever. But now that I know I can get my Macbook dipped in gold and crusted in diamonds, I'm taking a whole nother look at it.

>> Really? So that's what it would take to get you to swich.

>> Well, I mean I guess I would also have to pay, so that's kind of a bummer. But it's surprisingly, the reason I'm excited about this, there's this outfit called Computer Choppers, and they're the ones that would put the gold and the diamonds on the Macbook. And it's not as expensive as I thought it would be.

>> Like an American Chopper?

>> It's kind of like just the cost of another Macbook.

>> So it doubles the price, and you get gold.

>> Gold and diamonds.

>> You know, Apple should just get on this and just make it an option when you check out. Would you like to dip it in gold? Check here, you know, just add a little -

>> That's what I'm talking about, that's what I'm saying. That's very Apple'esque.

>> Would you take this outside though, even if you got one?

>> I would be blinded -

>> Yeah.

>> - if I tried to take it out.

>> Plus you might lose it. I mean talk about laptop theft. Let's go to the phones, we got Leo on the line from California. Hello Leo, thanks for joining us.

>> Hey Tom and Molly.

>> Hey there.

>> I have a question about the Nokia N eight hundred. Is it a good device for using as a calendar and task and events and stuff like that?

>> Hmm.

>> So that's the little tablety device, right?

>> Yeah.

>> The one that, it can get the internet, it doesn't actually make any calls though.

>> Yeah, well I mean it could, right? Cause it's got the internet so it could go over VoIP and, and that would work fine. I mean for, in terms of getting email and stuff like that, it, if that's all you want it to do then, then it's kind of a great device. I actually got my first look at this in the wild [assumed spelling], and the people who have it are crazy about it. They just absolutely love it, and I got to admit, it's almost like an iPod Touch, or the iPhone.

>> It's interesting how when the N eight hundred first came out, everybody's like well what would you want that for? But now we've evolved through the iPhone and then back to the iPod Touch, and now the N eight hundred looks like the super capable device. Yeah, and it kind of, and it runs on Linux, which gets people all excited, and I don't know. I mean we gave it a seven seven in our CNET reviews, seven point seven. We said the video playback was a little sub-par with no PC synchronization. But it has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, I got to say as a portable media player that's also a web device, I think this thing is looking pretty cool.

>> You know, I kind of, I kind of have to say I still want it all in one device. Like I'm not going back to the PDA.

>> So it's just the phone.

>> I need to have that phone in there. They put the phone in there, I mean the N ninety five -

>> Yeah.

>> - is probably the ultimate. If it was available, which it's supposed to be soon.

>> Yeah, I don't know.

>> All right, we got another PDA type palm device question coming from Winston in Canada. Hey Winston, thanks for joining us.

>> Hi, I'm just wondering can I put Linus on my palm drive Life drive?

>> Linux on a Life drive, yes. You absolutely can, but let me see if I can pull up exactly how. I know there's, there's a ton of different Linux distros that you can install on the different palm devices. Penguinistas [assumed spelling] are powering a PDA phone device that runs on the palm OS, or it runs on the trio actually. Let me see -

>> It looks like geek.com has a bunch of different resources for you, specifically talking about the Life drive, which is gonna be pretty handy. And there are links to the binaries and the whole works.

>> And linux.com also has a little tutorial on configuring the palm key flash drive in Linux. So a few resources, we'll throw in our show notes at blog.cnettv.com if you'll give me that link.

>> Of course.

>> You sure?

>> Maybe.

>> We'll see.

>> All right, let's, let's go and grab one more call from an old standard. It's Mitchell. Hey Mitchell, how's it going?

>> Good.

>> What's your question this week?

>> Well I just got a new hard drive, and whenever it's [inaudible] my computer and I turn it on, it tries to boot from it, and I'm trying to figure out how to make it so it won't do that.

>> It's an internal or an external hard drive?

>> External.

>> Oh it's an external. And you've got it hooked up by USB?

>> Yeah.

>> Okay.

>> Yeah, it sounds, you know, from a little bit of research it sounds like it, it's just, that it sometimes confuses the BIOS. The way to try to get around it, at least at bootup is to go into the BIOS on your computer and choose, it'll let you choose between startup options, and you just want to choose your hard drive. And various computers access the BIOS in different ways, in some it's F ten, in others it's, should give you a message basically at startup, it tells -

>> Yeah, for some reason your BIOS decided that your external drive is the boot drive so you just need to change that. The other thing is to unplug it.

>> Yeah.

>> Just don't have it plugged in at boot time and, I mean if you can't get it to, if you need to be able to work around it for a while, that would be the other way is to just unplug it at boot for now.

>> Yeah.

>> I'm sure Mitchell knew that though.

>> He probably knew that.

>> All right, we've got -

>> All right.

>> - Matt Mulenwig coming up, we're gonna talk to him.

>> Yes we do. But first it's time for a first look at the newest Blackberry, which has Wi-Fi. ^M00:07:39 [ music ] ^M00:07:43 [ background music ]

>> Hi, I'm Bonnie Cha, senior editor at CNET dot com, and today we're taking a first look at the RIM BlackBerry eighty eight twenty. I know a lot of you have been waiting for this, because it's the first BlackBerry to offer integrated Wi-Fi. It's another way you can connect to the web, which is good because this doesn't offer three G support. It is through AT and T, and it continues to offer Bluetooth as well as GPS, so you can use Tell it Now GPS navigator, which is their location-based service, to get turn-by-turn directions, as well as search for loc

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