Well the difference seems to be that it's not just for games, and that it also offers programs like photoshop. HE didn't really emphasize on that very much though.

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I bet you wish.

Anyone besides me notice that for his demo, Perry did not bother to play any high end games - say like GTA IV (PC) or Crysis?

Everything he played was not only low end, but the few relatively new games he played (Wow, Spore, EVE Online, NFS: Pro Street?), were all running in their low spec modes, full of low res textures and low end lighting and shader effects . . . and none of it was in HD (even though HD is supposedly an option).

What? I'm supposed to quit gaming on my high end PC, with all my game's special effects cranked up to max, and output at high def in 5.1 surround, and downgrade to this?

I don't think so.

OnLive on the other hand, has proven all of that about their service, and then some. So until Perry can actually prove that Gaikai is at least as good as OnLive (which he has not), I'll keep my eye on the competition. Because, if I am going to give up my high end gaming rig, then it is going to be for something that actually can do what my high end gaming rig can do; for a lot less money. And so far, I have not seen a single thing that Gaikai can do, that my high end gaming PC can't do much, much better.

And has anyone besides me noticed that there are ZERO community features on Gaikai? Once again, thanks to Steam and Xbox LIVE, I am spoiled on community features. And more importantly, on the concept of a centralized community. I don't want to have to go all over the internet, to 50 different publisher's sites, having to join 50 different gaming communities, just to get my game-on with my friends. Gaikai's got a good idea of being able to launch the games directly from the publisher's website, but once again OnLive can do the same - or more to the point, the publisher puts the links up on their site, and when you click it, it launches you directly into OnLive and the game you were after. Thus keeping online gaming communities centralized and able to grow, and not scattered all over the internet.

If a simple 1MB browser pluggin from OnLive will deliver all of the goods that high end PC gamers are already come to expect in modern games, with no sacrifices or compromises to the experience, then it would seem to me that it is hardly a price to pay, and hardly a deal breaker for any gamer.

The competition, my friend, is far from over. And from what I have seen to date, it is OnLive that is light years ahead of the competition, and not Gaikai.

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Piracy is never a good thing, but that part is worse IMO.

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