Sorry to hear you had bad experience w/ the VPC. Must just be a decent option for the very newest Macs and the newest VM version.

Please PM me on how you like the F11 if you get it. It's on my Christmas list right now--hope I asked for a good one!

Manufacturers should work on interoperability issues, but they run into cross-licensing problems sometimes and they think it's not worth the trouble. I'm kind of confused how the "sonic uplink" works with PCs anyway... They don't have much information on it at all. Just stuff on the infrared which I think they're phasing out.