Reasonably fast hard disks (or SSD)? DV cameras? Displays?

The point, I believe, is to replace eSATA + FireWire + DisplayPort/HDMI et al, all in one stroke.

I don't think USB<3 will be going anywhere for years, it's too ubiquituous and cheap for low-end gadgets... but USB3? Dead horse.

ClamAV is included in OS X Server. As is tomcat, and many other bits you can find on the web page, that you can't find in your OS X desktop.

Saft for Safari.

Documented in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Searching#Browser-specific_help. There's even a trick to do it in IE.

Watch this tech: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22926/

It works in the lab and is darn impressive. Once the corroding cathode issue is solved, it'll be ready for mainstream.

Maybe the Nokia engineers *did* solve it?

Nah... 12 hours = prolly just marketing.

And when I need it on the road? Its there.

...except when it's not, since someone's nicked it. Or the fat dude on the bus sat on it. Or you left it on the cafeteria terrace table and it happened to rain. Or when the sub-standard quality battery melted the device.

Portable terminals need to be disposable, not contain your life (or blood IMHO).

Oh, you just gotta love it!

If Nokia gets this on Symbian, then Microsoft is hosed, as the mix just can't be good.

If Nokia gets this on Maemo, then we have Microsoft Office on Linux.

Interesting times :)

...which is strangely appropriately said regarding the story itself. I wish there was an "insightful troll, +1" mod!

The original version? 100%. The current version? Significantly less.

Ah, but let them vote with no pants and watch the system achieve unheard of performance!

Yeah, I distinctly remember the WTF after upgrading 10.4 Server to 10.5 Server back in 2007 and there ended up being both /etc/apache and /etc/httpd... that was a bit confusing, since the management tools operated on the latter 2.0, whereas the former was the old, migrated 1.3 installation... I actually had to re-define all my vhosts for the new apache version. What a pain.

A much better option is a palm vein scanner. It needs a live hand for a 3-d image of warm veins.

According to BMI, my wife is underweight and I'm overweight. She's structured like a bird, I'm structured like a bulldozer, and we both wear slim cut clothes... yeah, the BMI is a gross generalization, and should be treated as such.

In Scandinavia one of the key reasons for relative traffic safety is the climate.

Because of harsh winters, our roads get to crap condition in no time flat. Hence, you need a WRC style car to go fast anywhere. Also, our drivers' ed is fairly thorough, requiring a separate winter driving course.

Or, it could be the ridiculous taxation, which means that nobody can afford to drive a fast car...

And therein lies the beauty of Apple's business model. You can't get the same product from anywhere else. You can only get something built from similar components... no direct comparison.

I can also fully understand why they go after beige-box clone makers. For my office/SOHO server needs, where the integration and form factor are hidden behind a desk or in a server room, I could just as well grab a non-Apple machine and be just as happy. But for laptops, imacs, and even powermacs, you just can't get a machine with matching integration and ergonomics from commodity components as such.

I'd quite like the price if I were the one getting the profit margin, and I bet so would you!

Actually, considering that we have 3 macs at home, I guess in our family we find the price/performance ratio rather unbeatable anyways.