You've heard of a hatchback, right? Even extremely non-exotic cars come in this flavor. Or there's my car, the Scion xB which isn't really a hatchback (weird-looking station wagon, maybe?) but has no trunk. On top of the folded down rear seats is where the two pit bulls ride, so I don't worry too much about smash-and-grabs in that car.

Already done (I think it's US Federal Law). Our Leaf thankfully has a switch to turn off the "chime...chime...chime" that I'm sure our neighbors would otherwise never tire of hearing every time we back out of the garage. There's also supposed to be a noise (switchable as well) emitted moving forward below 19mph, though I can't hear it from inside the car.

I switch off the noisy merry-making when I think about it, and I haven't mowed down any pedestrians yet. I can't tell if it makes any difference in ped behavior because in Seattle they step off the sidewalk without looking whether I'm in the Leaf or an ICE-powered car.

You mean every time anyone dares type the words "Mac Pro"?

The storage alone is going to be over $100, I'm guessing the RAM is going to put it over the $200 mark. No CPU, no case, nothing else. Oh, and it runs 50 VMs at once? VMs running DOS, maybe.

Exaggerated claims help no one. Let's say that ESX hardware really costs $1000. Okay, now a person can make an educated decision on whether that's the way to go. Stating that one can build such a machine for $200 just wastes the research time of anyone that goes to Newegg and finds out the one making the claim is exaggerating or just flat out lying.

My wife, at least once this week (DVDs and books). Me, once this week and probably tomorrow (to get out of the home office for a bit, and maybe a book). Pick any random day at any random time the Redmond, WA King County Library is open, and the parking lot will be a minimum of half full. Weekends or after work/school it's probably close to full.

That's not counting the eBooks that don't involve going to the b&m library. Overdrive worked, but was generally a PITA. The Amazon setup, all other complaints aside, was surprisingly low-friction. If I like the book and might reference it again, Amazon has a convenient "buy" button when going to check it back in (yes, yes, evil corporate bastards).

In summary, it looks like plenty of people use our local library. I don't know why anyone that consumes books, CDs, or DVDs wouldn't at least pop in to see what it's about.

My karma's still excellent, where'd that checkbox go? Because crap articles like this make me want to check it. I mean, maybe they will, maybe they won't. But there seems to be little basis to say they won't from the oh-so-thin facts in TFS.

Better viewing angle and better color reproduction are the advertised benefits. I just think they look better. Response times don't matter to me, as I rarely play games on this machine. That said, Portal 2 and Left for Dead 2 look just fine to me.

Both the iMac and Display are VESA compatible, albeit with a $27US adapter (it is Apple, after all). I've got both on monitor arms, which is why I forgot about the stupid, stupid misalignment between the two.

Looks like the price difference got bigger, as you point out. $170US to over $200 difference depending on where one looks. When I was looking pre-Thunderbolt (six months ago?), $100 was the biggest discount I could find.

No, I paid through the nose because when I went to buy a 27" monitor to set next to my 27" iMac, I found exactly three choices that did better than 1080. The NEC, though I'm sure it's pro-level, quality kit, was insanely priced. The Dell was about the same price as Apple, maybe less with a discount, and about the same quality. So, for about the same amount of money I just bought the Apple.

Where are these cheap, >1080 27" IPS monitors you imply everyone is making?

Never mind, I just looked at your post history. Gave the benefit of the doubt to troll, damn it. Well done.

Fix what by hand? You mean clicking the "start a new backup" button, as prompted by Apple? Or have you last track of where you're at in the thread, and who you're replying to? I'm trying to be charitable here by assuming you're just confused.

So what you're saying is that Time Machine does not "just roll it all up to work perfectly with no learning curve". Thanks for the clarification, I had always heard that Time Machine is the brain-dead solution that simply cannot be screwed up. I guess it's rsync FTW, then.

Just because you've never heard of it doesn't make it contrived. I've seen it on three machines in the house that backup to a compatible NAS. "Time Machine has verified the backup, and for reliability must start a new backup. Backup later/Start a new backup?"

Hey, Apple, deleting my backup history doesn't fall under the umbrella of "reliability".

If you're only using 2GB, I doubt that puts you anywhere near the top 5%.

Some of us didn't give up our "unlimited" plans when AT&T nixed them. So, strictly in theory mind you, I don't have a cap.

I bought one of those. I wanted the clicky keys, but figured I'd get the blank version to improve on touch typing numbers (I touch type everything else, but have always been weak on the number row). Worked well for that purpose, and has the added bonus of keeping the riff-raff off my machine.