What, a couple of $30US Thunderbolt->HDMI adapters were going to break the budget? I guess you'd only need the one adapter since the MBP has an HDMI port in addition to the two TB ports, meaning you could hang three monitors off the thing if you wanted to.

Any MBA with Thunderbolt can use the dongle. I've used it with my wife's 2011 MBA, and it would appear that it's gigabit speed (certainly faster than 100Mb).

I considered that when the retina MBPs were announced, and decided to just keep my MBA until the retina MBAs came out. But the retina MBP is just a a big battery with some small electronics attached. I don't how a retina MBA is going to get made without being heavier or having considerably reduced battery life. Now, Apple's engineers are smarter than I am (generally speaking) so they might pull it off sooner than later, but I just went ahead and bought a retina MBP.

Or maybe the market at large is just buying MBAs. I'll grant you that it doesn't easily fit into your fanboys/"smart people like me" dichotomy.

Do you truly think price is the only difference, or are you trying to make some point that isn't coming across clearly? Because if you think that "workstation" just means they jacked up the price, you probably lack the information needed to participate in the discussion.

The difference being that leather can take a few slides down the pavement and still be usable. Synthetics are often a one-shot deal. A horrifically bad session of pavement surfing can put a hole through synthetics when quality leather will still have some thickness left. In either case, you probably walk away with your skin intact. If replacing a $700 First Gear jacket the first time it goes down saves you a skin graft, money well spent.

That said, I like my Aerostich just fine, I just wouldn't wear it for a session of track racing.

Quality seems to vary widely these days. I've purchased CFLs since way back. As they became more popular I'd hear people complain that they were slow to put out full light and that they didn't last as long as advertised. That made no sense to me, as the ones I used were quick to warm up (almost unnoticeable) and lasted a good long while. As I bought newer ones for new fixtures, or to replace dead ones, I began to see the issues folks complained about. Some I got from Ikea recently barely light a room at start-up. I'm guessing heavy price competition has something to do with it.

Tl;dr They don't make 'me like they used to. Or you get what you pay for; take your pick.

I'm pretty sure that happens because all of the other mods marked it "insightful" and you're the lone wolf marking it "troll". The result is a lower score, but it shows the majority vote. I haven't heavily tested this, so I could be wrong.

I guess it depends on where you live. In Redmond, WA the things are everywhere and easily outnumber Ferraris. And Redmond has more than a few Ferraris running around.

The headline reminds of those cheesy ads on (as one example) snopes.com: "Find out why dermatologists hate this guy."
"Use this silly old trick to lose stubborn belly fat."

Slashdot encourages you to watch the video Apple doesn't want you to see!!!11

He was probably being a bit pedantic. Though the good stuff may be wrapped in foil, I doubt the foil is made of tin; aluminum, more than likely. I'm pushing 50 years old, and I don't know that I've ever seen "tin foil".

Or maybe, as you implied, he just buys cheap chocolate. :)

After 25 years or so of slapping upgrades in computers of various sorts, I'd have to say an SSD made the most immediate, noticeable difference of any upgrade I've done. Better CPU? Yeah, the new one's a bit snappier...I think; or maybe I want to think that because I spent money. More RAM? Seems like it's not swapping as much, sure. Replace spinning platters with SSD? Did someone just secretly swap out my old computer for a new one? Everything seems faster (okay, not ripping DVDs in Handbrake).

Forget boot times, who reboots enough to even notice? App loading, compiles, anything involving disk access is nearly instant. I'll sacrifice capacity for what an SSD buys me.

Now I'll admit that I wasn't as impressed as I thought I should have been. Two years ago when I bought my first one, bloggers were wetting themselves a bit much over the extra snappiness of an SSD. But SSDs are still a damned impressive upgrade. I really noticed the difference when I went back and forth between my SSD-equipped MacBook Pro and my iMac with a better CPU but 7200 RPM hard drive. When the iMac hits disk, it's annoyingly noticeable.

In summary, SSDs have been worth the money to me for over two years now. The only spinny hard drive I'll be buying from now on will either be a secondary drive, or will go in the NAS.

It wasn't modded down, he has crappy karma and starts at -1.

Because if I want an eye-searing backlit reader to use after the lights go out, I'll use my wife's iPad 3 which has a much better DPI than the Fire. Horses for courses, and for reading I'll use my e-ink Kindle whenever I can (and maybe I'll get the new Paperweight to solve the after-dark problem). When I want to use a tablet for tablety stuff, the Fire is not my first choice.

900 million of your tax pennies just last year, actually. I don't write to my Congress critter as often as I should, but this has prompted me to do so. It would seem that one House member is already starting to ask some hard questions.