1. I read in Gizmodo that you'll be able to get one for $199USD in April
2. I don't know - I did see that Asus
will be offering a motherboard with a slideshow module -
http://event.asus.com/vista_ready/index.htm. It will be interesting if XP can control it - but my guess is no since Microsoft my clamp down as that being a Vista only feature. We will have to wait.