I never liked Apples Keyboard light, I ended up disabling it. As when it there is dim light, the keyboard letters are at the same light color as the key background making it hard to read.

The thinkpad light can light up other stuff such as any paper you are looking at too.

The fact that it has less horizontal resolution makes it better?

Now when they moved to the Wide screen models, it was a fancy trick to lower the Vertical resolution, while offering a larger screen size. But that was when the average Resolution was around 72ppi. Today we are having much higher resolution screens, so going with this model will just cut away your horizontal resolution for you nostalgic feeling.

The issue isn't the taste of Healthy vs Unhealthy.
Fat and Sugar, use to be hard to get nutrition. Fats from hunting down animals, and Sugar from rare to find fruits, or rather dangerous to get honey. So our body was designed to reward for finding such foods, as they were hard to find nutrition.

However now Fat and Sugar are plentiful, so we can eat this all the time, so our body gets more of this nutrition then it needs, and really more then it know how to handle. However the reward system for such foods is still there.

He cannot do his job with a 40+ minute lag time in communication, assuming he can get the bandwidth he needs.

Age is an issue. This isn't going to be a vacation cruise. You will need to work while the ship is getting there. If you are too old to be effective, he will only be in the way, and what do you do with the body if he did die.

Well that explains why a lot of Stupid decisions made from major corporations.

There is an attempt of trying to try to get duel CEO for companies so they are not oncall all the time.

Umm OK. I stated it was experimental. However Ubuntu will release experimental/beta... Drivers in their production release as to support more devices... For the most part people are happy, if you happen to have the right set of hardware then things run good... However I have seen plenty of driver glitchiness in ubuntu over the years. Wi-Fi that looses connectivity randomly, video that leaves a lot of artifacts, after you add a second monitor.

Say to yourself LINUX isn't perfect, it is OK if it is your favorite OS, it may work very well for you but it ISN'T PERFECT and they are things that can be improved.

Just like how the sitting president never traveled far from US borders (Until safe aircraft and a Radio communication infrastructure). A CEO of a large global corporation, really doesn't have the time to leave on an extended multi-year adventure.
A 20 minute data Lag for a modern CEO could cause major business issues.
Also the fact when it is ready Musk will be an old man, not really fit for such an adventure.
Sadly I will be too old to travel to mars in my lifetime. Who has nearly less responsibility as Musk.

The problem:
Drivers to accommodate lack of open standards.
Back in the good old day,
CGA/EGA/VGA they followed their specs.
Serial and Parallel they followed a common spec.

Then Windows came popular with the support of drivers. This allowed hardware makers to stop playing by the rules thus creating a huge sets of incompatible SVGA (Visa more or less won) Then we went to 3D and all was lost. USB, different Wireless drivers.... Network cards...
For some reasons allowing this is good, because it allowed them to innovate and create new features. But on the other side, it threw out the idea of Open Hardware standards out the window.

Because the lack of such good standards, It creates systems that have driver issues.

Are you sure you are not talking about Ubentu?

Drivers are a problem for all Operating Systems. With different approaches to it.
Windows, is more open to 3rd party drivers that could break on an upgrade.
Linux, has often rather experimental drivers that do flaky things.
BSD/Apple, has the either it works well or it won't work at all. Meaning a lot of devices just won't work, even if it just a minor aspect of the hardware spec.
 

Just like the recent vaccine scare. It is hard to prove to people that something is indeed safe. One off comment that something is dangerious our a dangerious word is used to explain it is enough to turn off their brains and go into fear mode.

No... That is more like the arrogant closed minded jerk.
A master will strive to learn more about such features and when they suffencly understand them they will implement when approproprate.
I myself have been out of practice in C++ for about 15 years. I recently began working on a project where I needed better systems control and huger performance. So I choose to use C++. I know most of the concepts however I needed to research how to to do some things over again.
My experience made it easy for me to search for the topic and relearn the language again.
What else I found is the C++ comes with a new set of extra standard libraries that made many of the obnoxious aspect of C++ much less tedious to use.

But for the most part those people who buy Armani suites don't go around telling everyone that they should ware one too. Or bitch and complain when they go to a place where it would be inconvenient to wear an Armani suite.

The natural food (vegetarians/vegans) freaks, are just as bad as any religious zealot. They think that their way is the only way for all people, and work hard to convert them. Not realizing, caring or dismissing evidence that there isn't any major benefit, or the fact that some bodies and lifestyles such a diet doesn't work unless there is the same degree of zealotry towards your diet.

Places like whole food while expensive is still cheap enough that we will have to deal with these people on a daily basis.

The idea that somehow things were actually better off in the past as they were now, so what has changed in the world sense the past, and what new methods should we avoid. Just like how everything your Grandmother made is superior to what you can make. Or the idea of a secret Native American cure...
Some of this is from most of our cultural experience. Europe fell into the dark ages shortly after the fall of the Roman empire. After we got out it, we got back to reading the ancient texts of the past and found great knowledge in them. As well many of the religious texts that made it seem like the people in the past had a more direct relation with the supernatural.
However for the most part we know more then what we did in the past, while it is wise to not ignore the past and we should study it for some forgotten knowledge, it should be reevaluated scientifically to see if it does or doesn't work. A lot of the material from the past has things that work, but their explanation on why it works is way off, because their explanation is off, it means using it for untested things can be dangerous.

It is about stopping switching.
Many of the Windows 7 and Windows 8 PC are getting close to their end of life.
For many a refresh of the OS will bring new life to these systems. Also prevent switching to Linux. As well getting a new system (say a tablet)

While we get more and better hybrid ultrabooks out.

As like most ancient religions, they need to keep up with the times. The Catholic Church has been pro-science for a while now. As well it supported environmentalism for a long time. What the pope did was make this issue more important then the others.