Yes, that's nice.
But remember, Mac never kills anyone. Not even the really bad guys like Murdoch or whatever his name was.

What'd he use that for?

Then start studying.

I should've specified "for a character"

Actually, it means you can switch between skillsofts slotted into the jukebox (one per port) very quickly. You can't use all the softs slotted into one jukebox simultaneously, you have to select one. Hence the name "Jukebox". (A music jukebox in a bar doesn't play all of its songs simultaneously when you turn it on, you select which one you want to use and it loads that record and plays it.)

How could you physically change which chip is slotted at the flick of a switch (or mental command)?

A jukebox can have up to 10 slots for putting in skillsofts, which you then switch between as mentioned above. A 1-slot jukebox is pointless if you have a chipjack because if you want to use a 2nd soft you have to pull the first one out of your one-slot jukebox and put in the one you want to use, just like if you have a 1-slot chipjack.

Well, he already has Pistols skill at 6, so i doubt he would really need it as an Activesoft. Plus, he's a bit of pacifist, so something like Gunnery would not fit him.

Actually, Demolitions B/R might come handy when you need to make impromptu bombs or have to disarm that nuke only using a tennis racket.

@ Lilt: He already has Chemistry as a real skill, so no need for a Knowsoft.

I guess this character has most of his bases covered now. Thanks to everyone for input.

I was referencing to one episode where Mac actually does defuse a nuke with only a tennis racket. Would it count for the inadequate equipment malus?

BTW, It's easier to just get a lockpick gun, it costs next to nothing.

According to M&M:

And it costs 250 * rating, so even a rating 6 is only going to cost you 1500 . And at least according to the description it might even be more silent than picking a the old fashion way. This, of course, is open to debate.

Hmm. Weird. I was sure I'd been told differently at some point. I'll see if I can find the post...
[edit]Also a jukebox dosen't have all of the CDs plugged into "ports" as such, it switches between them mechanically.[/edit]

The Skillsoft Jukebox is just there to prevent things going like this:

Players discover a huge bomb in some house basement. The groups MacGyver(aka skillwires guy) comes to the front and says: "No worries guys, I'll just slot my Defusing Bombs(Demolitions B/R) chip, and disarm it." The guy starts shuffling through his pockets, trying to find the correct chip: "-Wait, here it is, ah, no, thats my Running Man(athletics) chip... Now where did I put it... Damn...". Others characters look at each other, nod in silent agreement and start to run away. The SkillWires guy finally finds the right chip, slots it and turn back to talk to his now long-gone buddies: "Ok, guys, watch this! Uh, guys? GUYS?!" He then turns back to the bomb and realizes there's only 10 seconds time left.

I know. I was using it as an analogy.

SR3 is not very clear on skillsofts, jukeboxes, chipjacks, and such. You're left to puzzle a lot of it out on your own.

I never would have interpreted that from the description in the book. I stand corrected, then. And I think I like how it's supposed to work better.

It's an interpretation thing. If your character doesn't have any social skills on his own, that's lame and he shouldn't slot them because that's lame. And if he takes social skills and slots combat skills instead, well, that's lame too...

A fine idea

Because certain GMs (like me) dislike their flavor enough to ban them.

Me, I figure that every red-blooded male would have a set of cheap minmaxed 'wires, giving them 8+ dice in the "Convincing Girls To Do Anal And Let You Plaster Them With Money Shots" specialization of negotiations. I remember wangling the numbers around once to confirm that this could be done with less than 20k.

Presumably the people with that edge are born good-looking. If you're not, then you're shelling out nuyen or settling with a nice homely girl who wouldn't think of letting you spooge on her face.

Why is it lame? Say, a Face character gets skillwires so that he could other things besides just talking the talk and walking the walk. And remember, chipped skills cannot use dice pools, so if someone takes all his combat skill as ActiveSofts, he is only able to one of them at a time and no combat pool. And skillwires aren't the cheapest piece of 'ware there is. Rating 6 * 108 MP * 500 = 324000 . That's one third of your starting resources if you got the 1 million. And you haven't gotten any chips yet, which come at 10800 a piece.

ActiveSofts and social skills: I wouldn't let them take those. It just somehow feels wrong... very, very wrong. (Mental picture of a cybered to the hoop sammy going to bar, stepping up to two hot elven chicks, talking them for a moment and then leaving the bar with BOTH of them. And waking up in the L-shaped bedsheets. )

@ others: Please, no anal and money plaster thingies. I'm trying to eat my breakfast, for Dunk's sake!

And yeah, for a side note: The character is a pacifist. Shooting someone with a assault rifle or a light machine gun on full-auto isn't going to knock them out, it's going to rip them into little pieces. So no Gunnery for him. But the Pistols B/R is good stuff. Parachuting also might come handy.

That's why I didn't include it in my list, but then I realized that it doesn't have to be for shooting people. The character might only use it for shooting through barricades and taking out drones.

You mean you didn't pick up on any of that sarcasm?

I must say, I failed to see any sarcasm in your post. Maybe you should consider using smileys? Like this.

And, apparently, there's nothing governing how many chips you can stuff into it except GM discretion, and whether you put in 2 chips or 20 it doesn't affect cost at all?

That seems to be the case. At least according to the post earlier.

Actually, there are two ways that chipped skills can incorporate Pools. The first is the Chipjack Expert Driver which grants a Task Pool of up to 3 dice for any Skillsoft used in that specific Chipjack. The second is the DIMAP option for the chips themselves, which enables the person using the Skillsoft to access any already existing Pool that is appropriate to the skill involved.