RTFA. $678 with a case and software. 16GB retina is 499, less with edu discount.

what makes you think they would be getting a discontinued model?

"NSA Lies"

FTFY

This.

Optical drive.

Real ethernet port.

And a trackpoint.

Hey Lenovo, go break into Samsungs house and steal their screens and put them into a nice Thinkpad for me, eh?

Shit article, written by an idiot.

Well to be fair, Apple did invent the MiniDisplayPort connector, but they gave it out for free to everyone.

Because DisplayPort is the standard monitor connection of the future.

I'd like to point out that whoever wrote the post didnt RTFA, because it was linked there.

*your

iTunes is shit. It has always been shit. It will probably always be shit.

This is not news.

also if you say '48 hours' it sounds like you are approximating. but 48:01 is precise enough for people to know that you are serious.

The first man to calculate the height of mt everest calculated it to be 29,000 feet exactly. To make it sound as precise as it was, he said it was 29,002 feet.

so you abuse your printer every time its out of paper?

Steam basically requires an internet connection. Offline mode exists, but you need to switch it over while you have a connection, so its useless if you go offline suddenly.

I have no reason to believe that the steambox will be any different.

1) Get smarter friends
2) Linux or even MacOS box and tell them to live with it
3) Deep Freeze
4) VM with snapshots/non persistant storage

What ever happened to that wifi blocking wallpaper?

Buy something with win8pro, and use downgrade rights to install 7.

Must be 8pro, not regular.

or just get start8 or something similar.