All I said is that the hardware you get is generally properly configured and the software works well with it. That, generally speaking, has nothing to do with how well suited the hardware is for your needs or how much choice you had in selecting the hardware.

If Apple makes a product that is targeted at your needs, it's usually a very compelling offering. If they don't, you usually end up being an Apple hater tinged with what looks suspiciously like jealousy.

This, even more than the issue of debugging hardware problems, separates Macs from PCs. The hardware on a Mac is properly configured. You don't need to worry about low-level power management settings for a MacBook Pro, because it's already been tuned to be the most efficient laptop on the market. I don't know for sure how Macs handle memory timings, but they don't do anything stupid with memory clock speeds. As for legacy ports, there are none around to hog IRQs.

Now, if it's overclocking you're after, you're out of luck, but that doesn't matter because Apple doesn't make a high-end desktop computer, which is what you want if you're an overclocker.

Try reading an EULA and then come back and tell me that English is sufficiently expressive as-is.

Yes, but you still can't make it from a microwave oven.

I think you missed the point. They're all full-sized, though none of them has a number pad.

Are you aware that all the Apple laptops (even the 11.6" MacBook Air) use the same size keyboard?

Most Mac software is already Mac-only, since OS X is the only good implementation of the APIs used by Mac software. Changing how the app is sold doesn't really affect the existing and insurmountable technical barrier to moving a mac app to another platform.

The whole point of sensors like this is that what may look to you like black with a few white dots is in fact a much more vivid image, but at intensities too low for human perception. When your sensor is capable of discriminating the differences in intensity or color between stars, stitching the exposures is very easy.

Of, to put it another way, Microsoft gave up on the idea of WYSIWYG, and Apple didn't. Even though the original selling point of TrueType was that the fonts on-screen would match the printer's fonts.

Umm, most Mac users aren't vulnerable to PDF exploits because they use the built-in Preview.app to read PDFs, not Adobe's Reader, and Preview.app doesn't support JavaScript, which is required for any PDF exploit. You also can't disguise an application or shell script or executable binary or disk image by putting .pdf at the end of the filename.

For interactive use, nearly all the output of a physics engine goes straight to the graphics engine to be rendered. Notification of a collision doesn't need timing so precise that a couple dozen nanoseconds matters, because humans have trouble noticing differences on the order of milliseconds.

For non-interactive use, latency will almost certainly not matter at all if throughput is good. Applications that need very complex vector number crunching to happen with low latency are truly rare.

Don't you think that GPUs are smart enough today that they could just take in updated geometry data, etc. and render, without any performance-critical need to send data back up the pipeline to the CPU? Sure, our current software stack isn't well-suited for that kind of use, but lightpeak could provide the impetus for that relatively small re-architecting.

I really don't think one of these would be good for a Jiffy Pop. Those things are wrapped in foil, so if any of the RF energy did make it to the corn, it wouldn't be evenly distributed and would probably burn anything that got hot enough to pop. If, however, you aimed it up and put your corn and butter on top of the output RF window, you could have a very large-scale popcorn maker with no moving parts (except in the coolant system for your klystron).

The ADS isn't a MASER, because it doesn't use stimulated emission for the amplification, but the end result is still coherent microwaves. The typical way to amplify millimeter waves of the wavelength used by the ADS is with a klystron.

DisplayPort is royalty-free; HDMI isn't.

DisplayPort is also more computer-oriented than HDMI, so it is more flexible about what kind of data streams it can carry. For example, the latest version of the standard supports carrying USB signals and a wider range of audio formats than HDMI supports.

Also, DisplayPort wasn't invented by Apple. They just adopted it (except for their own connector) because it suited their needs better than HDMI.