iPod Touch sucks softly, accessories really hard...

Never mind the draconian DRM and that you can't use an iPod as something as basic as mobile storage; the hardware is still excelent, and it does the few things they allow with remarkable stability and ease  --too easy for my taste though, I wish half of the programs I use had advanced options, or any options at all.  But the consumables^H^H^H I mean, accessories, are another thing.

The headphones that came with it lasted a few weeks... the microphone in the iPhone 3G ones I got recently not even one... Made in China, Made in China... that doesn't means you can skip the quality control Apple, and-- wait a second... they got a typo on the bottom of the box?  IPone????  I should know better. >.<

Samsung SyncMaster 793MB Horizontal Brown Lines

Brown lines appear from the right, "stabbing" at any onscreen text and the mouse cursor, like the ghost of Winamp has taken possesion of the screen.  It happens randomly, after the monitor has been on for a while (heat?), and stops as suddenly as it started.  Sadly there seems to be no way to exorcise this common problem, as it's probably some design fault in the circuitry.  Screen resolution, refresh rate and interference from other devices seem irrelevant to the problem.  Temporal repelling of the evil equalizer can be achieved slaping or pressing the top of the monitor, or for the peacefully minded, pumping up the brightness (turning MagicBright to video and back does the trick), thought it "feels" like the ghost develops immunity against these treatments with time.  Best advice is to stay away from the SyncMaster 793MB altogether, since the problem will only get worse, eventually making it useless (even my old 550v's work better; granted, they may take a while to start working, the colors may be messed up and way too dark... but at least you can read on them).