All of you guys whining about the excess packaging have short memories.

Well, actually, not all that short. It's been seven or eight years since the great Sonic Blue debacle so perhaps memories have faded.

Do you remember how the "fire sale" empegs were packaged? I do. They were in reasonably sturdy empeg boxes, which were then tossed into much larger boxes, each of which was packed with upwards of a dozen styrofoam peanuts. (Mine came with, if I remember correctly, nine.) The empeg box rattled around loose inside the larger shipping container, and it's a miracle that the only thing wrong when it arrived was a loose hard drive cable.

Give me over-packaging any day.

tanstaafl.