As in you personally, not a character.

I'd love:
Math SPU - Math in my head to the max
Dietware - No more worrying about what I eat
Fang Implant - Maybe, if I was feeling really rebelious one day
Attention Coprocessor 1 - Go go multitasking
Orientation System - No more getting lost driving around, woo!
Balance Tail - I enjoy slack lining, would make me even better at it
Clean Metabolism - Great for hot days
Hearing Enhancement - I have serious trouble with certain tones, this should fix that right up.
Nanotattoos - I've always kind of wanted a tattoo, but could never settle on what I wanted, and so on. Would be awesome to be able to change it around, make it go away when I don't want it, and even be able to have an animated tattoo.
Nanohive - to go with my nanotattoos.
Flashback System - Relive my best memories? Yes please.
Sleep Regulator - More time to game

I suppose there is also the large line of intelligence enhancements (cerebral boosters, PuSHeD, neocortical nanites), but it's kind of boring to list all that.

So, what about you? What ware would you really love to have?

P.S. Oh, nearly forgot, datajack/implanted commlink. 24/7 connection to my computer. Likely bad for me, but oh well. Would maybe consider cyberears instead of the hearing enhancement, at least then I'd be able to tune out those ultra-high pitched sounds I can sometimes hear.

Yep I can agree with a lot of your choices.
Dietware, Clean metabolism, Tailored Pheromones, Enceliphon, sleep regulator, sim recorder.

Datajack - Might make my writing easier and flow better.
Math SPU - Obvious reasons.
Dietware - Ditto.
Attention Co-Processor - I have an undiagnosed learning disorder (As in they don't know what it is, just that I have one), and this will probably "Solve" it.
Cat Eyes - Get rid of these glasses, and see in the dark.
Cyberears - Family curse.
* Dampener - Loud noises cause me physical pain.
* Sound Link - I am a walkman!
Cerebral Booster - See Attention Co-Processor above.
Sleep Regulator - I have a difficult time with sleep, this should help. And I'd get more time for gaming.
Cold Adaptation - I'm Canadian. This is a no-brainer.
Cloned legs and arm replacement - I've buggered both up in my life, and it'd be nice to have them not pain me so.

Cyberears with select sound filter, damper (replace these faulty meat ones)
Cybereyes with the works (already have had RL lasik, so why not? Plus imagelink is a must)
Olfactory enhancement (smells are under-utilized in today's world, I feel)

I'd be really interested in a cyberarm. I'm not QUITE at the point of self-amputation, but if an accident happens and I can get a quality cyberarm, I'd be very ok with that

Is self-amputation really that different from having your meat eyes plucked out?

Yeah, I wouldn't do that. I mean, if there's cyber, there's also trodes and all the stand-alone sensors and things. Just like in SR, I wouldn't bother implanting anything with an exact stand-alone equivalent.

As a narcoleptic, the idea of having a sleep regulator is intriguing. As someone who doesn't trust doctors, no way in hell would I get one.

Then again, I've said for years I want to volunteer for man/machine interface projects to become the first person to catch a computer virus...

Yeah, that's a good point...guess I've lived all my life messing with my eyes, so "plucking them out" doesn't seem as much of a stretch as having an arm lopped off on purpose. At first thought, anyway.

If push came to shove you're probably right

*edit* just saw Yera's post - you're right, now, thinking about it more - I think I'd rather have glasses / contacts than cybereyes. Ever read "Speaker for the Dead" (sequel to Ender's Game)? I vaguely remember a character in the book (Olhada?) with cybereyes, with cybereyes being verryy rare. I think it touched a bit on how the cybereyes created some real distance and persecution from other characters, even within the family.

Cyberarm is still a must, though. Obviously

Some of the other items people have already mentioned are great, though: no external equivalent and significant effects. Obviously, we'd all want the brain-boosters and attention widgets.

Hm... depends. So they are all absolutely safe and i can get unlimited money for them?

Well, first of all:

Cyberware:
An internal Cyberdeck... i mean comlink
Datajack, skinlinked
Encephalon
Mathematical Co-Processor
Retinamods (I really don't like the idea of letting them rip out my eyes.) for enhancements, imagelink
Earmods for soundlink, enhancements
Control Rig
Taste Booster
Voice modulator (I don't like my voice... could be more awesome Maybe more like Liam Neeson or something *g*)

Bioware:
Small bio modification (face) Getting it a bit more symmetrical)
Muscle Toner and Muscle Augmentation (It is cool to be super strong without any training, yeah i am lazy)
Cerebral Booster (Hm... only if it really doesn't change my person)
Sleep Regulator (OF COURSE!!!)
Symbiotes

Genetech:
Well... all optimizations, and PuSHed, maybe Qualia and some other stuff.

Nanosystems:
Hm... as long as i can trust that the damn things don't eat my body:
Well, sustained
Nanosymbiotes
Neural Amplifiers (Can't decide which one.. all good)
Maybe Oxyrush sometimes?

AND if i still got Essence (YAY DELTAWARE *g*)
I will take:
Synaptic Accelerator
Titanium Bone Lacing (WHY? Because it is cool. Also i like never to worry about broken bones when i am jumping around with my new super-strength)

Hm i don't really like the skillwires though... but might be handy... but the idea of "Nah, i didn't do anything, just my body.. ugh. I like to learn my skills myself (And with the enhancement nanites it is so easy too. New language in like a month or so)

Well, yeah i would be a total cyborg after that... but at least a bit subtle (except the titanium bones)

Good point: I'd get some kind of bone lacing for the nigh-immunity to broken bones. It's the little things in life.

If essence exists, I'd get nothing, if not. Headware, lifestyle bioware, maybe some reflex enhancements.

+ Internal air tank
+ Reaction enhancers

thought about Gecko hands, but the idea of having to wear gloves 99% of the time put me off...

neo-epo
pushed
synthcardium
bone density augmentation
sleep regulator
dietware
cerebral boosters
attention coprocessor
math spu

Hrm... I know I'd get quite a bit of headware. Browsing the Matr--internet with my mind? Oh, yes.

-Implanted 'link
-Datajack
-Cyberears
-Cybereyes
-Bone lacing
-Nanotatts, -yes-.
-Sleep regulator (could seriously use one of these...)
-Cerebral booster, if I could afford one
-Spurs

Don't think I'd get dietware, as I'm still young enough to have a black hole-like metabolism -- though perhaps when I'd get older and it'd slow down. A taste booster might be nice too.

I'm just proud of Dumpshock that not a single person has said penile implant yet.

Don't jinx it!

Well, since we're nerdgasming, let me go through augmentation:


All of the genetic optimizations, and hyper glucagon. Bone desnsity, suprathyroid, synaptic booster, muscle toners, muscle augs, platelet factory, trauma damper, cerebral booster, sleep regulator, symbiotes to allow it all to repair...

Uh, attention coprocessor, math spu, orientation system, imagelink, smartlink, biomonitor, radar sensor.. maybe a sim module and a commlink? Nanohive with implant medics?

Have to be deltaware, and at max ratings you'd probably still be sub 1 essence.

Did anyone mention basic things like toxin/disease resistance? Along with bone lacing/density, I'd be most interested in generally *awesome* health, and *then* worry about superhuman brains and fun gadgets.

Even though noone has said it, I would bet my right arm that many, many people were thinking it...

That… that's not your right arm! O_O;

I was thinking that too, but then I started to worry about whether it would affect my ability to utilize things like alcohol and caffeine and other substances...or is that a diff. piece of 'ware? Dang being away from the books right now!

'Utilize' alcohol and caffeine? Don't worry, the Pathogenic Defense wouldn't interfere; the Toxin Extractor would. O-Cells… I think they're just for diseases.

Incidentally, strike Bone Density: 1) 'long and painful process', 2) doesn't say 'nigh-immune to breaking' like lacing does.

I was hoping to lose the bet and then need a replacement

I think I read about a study recently that said alcohol (in moderation) definitely had health benefits, but the benefits mainly were because of helping you to relax and de-stress.

Anyway...

Sleep Regulator (if only so that I get a good night's rest every night, the "only 4 hours" thing is just icing).
Dietware (I'm not fat, but I have noticed recently that my 32" waist is not anymore)
Datajack, Math SPU, Cerebral Booster (all so I can get more and better game-making done, yes)
Nanotat (because I think a tattoo would be awesome, if only I knew what I wanted, but if I can change it all the time, why the f*ck not?)

And then...off the deep end...
Under the following assumptions:
1) Magic isn't happening
2) Its proven safe
3) I could afford it
Then perhaps a little genetic alteration...

That's a good point - if there were a real-life choice between having magic or cyber, I'm not really sure which I would pick...magic, probably (if it's using the SR4a rules )

'Pick?' Obviously you'd be a Mystic Adept with 1 or 2 points of 'ware.

*sigh*

Sorry to buck the trend here, but I'm already smart enough and fast enough. The one thing I need, machines can't give me. So, I'll second Shinobi Killfist and stay essence-clean.

What's that "one thing"? If you could be convinced that machines could give it to you, would you trade away your precious precious essence?

Let's face it -everyone would go the whole hog, find a way to end an e-ghost and have a home node in a drone body. An otomo, maybe, or that one I don't remember that's 300kilograms of hate and metal.

Psh. You're not smart and fast enough. You just think you are.

Slightly more seriously, you might as well reject modern (and pre-modern) medicine. Cyber/bio is nothing but the normal march of science and technology.

MMMmmm

Sleep regulator (I have crap sleep as it is, less of it the better)
Stuff to help fight all the germs my missus brings home from work (damn damn dirty apes- I mean children!)

I'd be happy with those tbh, I could go overboard, but its the little things that annoy me

I think pretty well close to everyone here would embrace Transhumanism quite easily, eh?

Really? No one wants skillwires?

I'll take the skillwires. Thanks.

Datajack,
Eye-Replacement,
Sleep Regulator,
Jolt-Alarm for waking up,
Mnemonic Enhancer,
Math CPU,
Attention Co Processor,
Internal GPS and Orientation System,
Ear-Stuff,
Nose-Stuff,
MBW. Or Skillwires.

hmm....any cyber? That would be....intriguing.

Left full cyberleg, obvious-bloody thing's been bothering me for *far* too long
Wired Reflexes-One can never be too fast
Low-Light, Thermal, and Flare Compensation retinal implants-no cybereyes for me, I'm told my naturals are intriguing enough
Damper-can't hurt
That....looks to be about it. Maybe bone lacing, but beyond that, I don't see anything in Augmentation that jumps out at me

I don't want full cyber.. but I'd like a cyber knee replacement, for my left knee.
Also, Any bioware/genetic therapy for fixing my lungs? Asthma bites the big one.

I thought about it, but I'd rather know what I'm doing than just have the wires doing it for me.

Also, with the 10k/rating cost of the software...

I notice I'm the only one that's taken a tail so far

And no, no cash limit or anything, but I figured some common reason would fall into it. I based it more on things I'd likely get than things I'd simply like, so I took cost into account to some degree, but you're free to do whatever of course.


They have machines that make you happy, machines that love you, machines that can give you children, even machines that can clean your soul (if essence=soul, which is up for debate). I'm fairly sure there is a machine for what you need.

You must have missed the full intent of my post, then. ;P

I realize how helpful it would be to know how to program or do high level calculus, but I don't want to spend the time/effort/karma to learn them. The same goes for a lot of things. I do my hobbies because I enjoy them, and I want to get better at those specific hobby-related skills, but the rest of that shit i'd prefer to just have plugged into me.

There hasn't been a day that's gone by where I didn't wish I had a datajack, head computer and an attention co-processor. Wading through all this paperwork sucks.

I'd also likely do cyberfeet. My legs are all right but everything from the ankles down is borked. So a pair of feet, add in skates...The cybereye package I mentioned in the other thread, and should anything happen to my arm I'd toss in the replacement cyberarm with a grappling hook, torch and shock palm.

I'd also like a nanohive that I could use my headcomp to program. Teeth hurt? I got nanites for that.

Feeling ill? Nanites for that.

Nanite invasion? I've got nanites for that!

Can the penile implant reduce one's current size? If so, that would be a life saver for me.

Mesh

P.S. Latest implant news

Cyber eyes: 20/20 vision, yes please.
Datajack*2:Dircet connection to my comlink and other stuff
Sleep regulator:Less need for sleep, oh definitely need this
Attention coprocessor 3:
Clean metabolism:for obvious reasons
Dietware:Ditto
PuSHeD&Qualia:Who wouldn't want a boost on intuition and logic linked stuff
Whole set of neural amplifier nanites at max rating: Ditto
O-cell and oxyrush nanites at max rating:Might come in handy
Nanohive for the nanites:This should be self explatory
Touch link:for tactile responsive AR
Synthcardium 3:A boost to athletic skills is kinda nice.

You tried modafinil? Works great.

And that's why you have a big friend with an even bigger shotgun watching over the operation.

I would get datajack, internal commlink, cybereyes with vision mag, cyberears with sound filter, two modular cyberarms and various plugins (Bionic Commando grapple arm, anyone?) cerebral booster, synaptic booster and a simsense booster. Also flashback system and nanobiomonitor with trauma control system. Oh, and muscle replacement. The cyberarms are bulk modified obvious ones with strength and agility upgrades, as well as cyberspurs (snikt), but I'd also have synthetic plugins with smuggling compartments and more datajacks. Finally, radar senseware and skillwires. I think that's everything.



EDIT: Oh and vocal range enhancement. Three words. BRIAN. BLESSED. IMPERSONATION. When I read that back just now, I heard it in his voice.

Assuming that if I didn't Awaken as a mage.......

Cybereyes with everything I could fit in them. Make them look as organic as possible.
Datajack (placed behind the ear, somewhere discrete).
Nanotats. Just because I can change them anytime I want.
I'd have to really think about anything else. No implanted commlink, though.

Well, considering I'm already the equivalent of 6 in all relevant mental attributes and 5 in all physical ones, all I really need would be Enhanced Articulation to reverse the damage done to my joints by a life hard lived.

And maybe some low level muscle augmentation and toner so I could bulk up easier without my metabolism fighting against the gain of excess muscle mass. That and it means less time in the gym and more time at the beach.

Uh huh. This isn't a class reunion.

I'm leaning towards adding a smartlink to my wish list. Not that I fire guns enough to need it, just...it'd be nice to have when I do.