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@Khürt Williams - nothing wrong with Ubuntu at all - I just prefer using OSX and having all my machines running on the same operating system. But I'm guessing your question was meant to be some rhetorical point. (abut also breaking Apple and Dell's EULA is just an added bonus) No one is actually making all these people buy Netbooks and put OSX on them. Anyone who buys a 8.9" screen, 1.6ghz single processor machine and then proceeds to complain about those constraints really deserves to lose their money anyway. Unlike the iPhone, I've yet to see any netbook be chastised for misselling what they can do and how fast they can do it.

Maybe we're just older and more cynical or maybe the new generation of evangelists (fanboiz) are just too moronic to want to align ourselves with, considering Apple are hardly the underdogs of years gone by, but whatever it is, it's happening to everybody I know these days too, and Apple have only got themselves to blame, although they probably don't care.

This whole situation leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but then I realised I haven't actually bothered to look in the App(le) store for weeks now. The novelty has worn off (I've bought my token apps), perhaps as the wave of ambivalence follows through, Apple will be forced to change their tact, or perhaps if the developers boo SJ at the next keynote, it may do more, than any other action.

It’s $129, the same price as any other notebook battery at the Apple Store.

Except just like RAM, one would be mad not to get an alternate battery elsewhere. The Air is a bit of beauty, but it's just too much of a compromise in my opinion.

Actually June 21/22 is the middle of summer, not the start of it. Lets face it, Leopard is going to be delayed, we are almost at the end of March, without even a hint of release date, and no clue of any of those 'special, secret" features, that you would assume would be beneficial to the coding community. Apple just seems to have been too preoccupied with the iPhone,

The iTV will fail completely unless Apple allows the installation of Quicktime plug-ins such as DIVX, and knowing Apple and the fact that the iTV is closed, that is not going to happen (without some hacking), so frankly why they are bothering even trying to flog the item outside of the US is beyond me, as there is no content that you will be able to play on it, unless of course you want to go to the great lengths of converting every video to something iTunes compatible. Using Steve's Pricing Logic: Apple TV $300 + DVD Player and recorderr $250 +DIVX player $200 + computer $300 = MacMini @ $600, a saving of a few hundred dollars and some space in front of your telly! So no the iTV was not enough of an announcement! I'd get more use out of iLife 07 and Leopard thanks!

Very disappointing, as basically as someone with a macMini connected to a 42inch plasma, living in the UK, there was absolutely nothing for me to get excited about, why does the UK apple store even have the iTV for sale, seeing as you probably wont be able to even add quicktime plug-ins like DIVX, you can't play downloaded (pirated) material, and ITMS UK only sells music, what's the point. And the iPhone, nice looking gadget but seeing as we'll only be (possibly) seeing it in a year (who knows what Nokia/SE/Motorola will have out by then?), this MacWorld actually must go down as the most pointless in terms of actual tangible excitement, not even a new version of iPhoto to look forward to buying or anything to download! surely it would of been better to have this iPhone announcement at a separate event? A MacWorld keynote with absolutely nothing for the Mac?

You have to ask yourself, who in their right mind is going to invest in any Apple machines for the immediate future? This is a worrying time, I certainly don't want to be running software on some crappy emulator. Sales will completely nosedive. We'll get to 10.4.8 have a stable OS again, then have to start all over again (akin to 10.1) with an Intel version!