Of course the question must be asked - where were you when Macs were incredibly easy to open and upgrade parts. The entire box folded open like a piece of origami for access to vital parts, and then folded back for operation. No screws to undo, cables to unwind, just a few locking clips and unfold away.

If there were enough people who liked that in the '90s, then Apple wouldn't have had to change its way of doing things to become profitable again. Hence, the reason Apple doesn't care about you is that to them, you don't matter. The extra effort and spending just to entice you to buy one of their products is just not worth it. Or don't you like capitalism?

Apple used to say 'think different', but now they just go for the bulk majority market, and sorry but that just isn't you. It isn't really me either, but then again I managed to break the last easy-access motherboard I laid my hands on so currently I'm just looking for a computer that doesn't pretend to be accessible.

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Meanwhile, back on the point of the article, I never thought that 'wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated' people were particularly kind or altruistic to begin with. Maybe it's just that selfish elites can afford iPads while non-elites cannot.

Not really, it just takes a shortage of bread and a lack of tastiness, or just simple laziness. I have mixed butter, jam, honey, peanut butter, Vegemite all on the one sandwich (with processed meat, lettuce, tomato, beetroot, cheese) simply because I wanted some of everything and figured it was all going to mix inside my stomach anyway. It tasted awesome.

How can following the path of least resistance be patentable? That's like patenting limping or falling out of bed.

On a Mac, Safari gets 120 and Chrome gets 142... Strange.

Although why any browser supports Geolocation worries me. Maybe it's just because Google makes Chrome.

I vote that someone makes a standards-only-compliant browser. No site-specific hacks, so that web designers can just test the page once in that, and if it works there, it should work in any standards-compliant browser.

I can trace this idea back to 19th January 2008. Can anyone beat that? The poster removed the pic on a certain forum saying "Sorry guys, taken this down until I finish talking to the patent attorneys." Thankfully I had already seen it and saved a copy of the image. View his concept here: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=koh11&s=5

Whoa... they still make sub-2.0GHz processors? As for the card reader, I hear it's called a "Camera" and it usually comes with a USB cable.

17 inch screen... at that dpi? Give me HD movies (1080p) on a 1920*1200 (and still 17") screen anyday.

The stereo microphones however would be nice. Oh and fit in all your specs with my edits into one and a half inches, by fourteen inches, by ten inches.

P.S: Why do you have four external screens running at once? Adapters exist for a reason.

See title.

Instead of Print Screen, Apple uses a trio of cmd-shift-3 for full-screen screencapture, cmd-shift-4 for a click-drag selection, and cmd-shift-4 and tap space to capture a single window. The Home, end, page up and down keys are accessible by pressing the function and arrow keys (why else do you think the arrow keys have "< home, page ^, page V, page >" written on them?). Forward delete is accessible by pressing fn-delete.