1. Core 2 Duo > Atom. For reference see: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dual-core-atom-330,2141.html
That review only covers the 1.6GHz version, but without architecture changes a 1.8GHz atom processor won't be making up much ground. So the Macbook Air offers a (substantially) faster processor with comparable battery life to many netbooks (though not a replaceable battery, I miss those).

2. This one has me stumped, you really think a plastic case beats a metal case in sturdiness? Have you ever seen an aluminum case Macbook Pro or Air from the past few years other than photos online? It's not thin like a beer can, it's more comparable to an aluminum desktop case (and thicker in some places). I have had no issues with mine, and I've not heard any complaints of the case falling apart under normal conditions.

3. http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html, or, you know, google it or read any of the previews.

The price is what makes this not a netbook in my opinion. Whenever anyone has asked me in the past what a netbook was (compared to any other laptop) I used the definition that seemed to be the industry standard: small, cheap.

This one isn't quite small enough to compare to netbooks (with screen sizes between 7-10"), and it certainly isn't cheap enough.

What do you mean by this? Command-Tab lets you switch between applications and Command-` lets you switch between windows within an application. Personally, since switching to Macs a few years ago I've found this to be a much nicer way of managing windows and applications than the every-window-for-itself approach of Windows.

Not to be an MS apologist, but IronScheme runs on the .NET (or more specifically CLR) platform. Also F#--which will be included in VS 2010-- supports continuations (found during a quick Google search of f# and continuations). Not that this effects me too much since I'm primarily using Linux/FreeBSD these days, but should I ever end up on an MS system based on these ideas there may still be hope.

But OpenCL is a specification, not an implementation. The only 3 implementations I'm currently aware of is Apple's (with Snow Leopard), AMD demoed implementation back in March, and Nvidia's beta implementation. So far none of those are open source. If you're aware of an open source implementation, please let me know I'm actually very interested in it, but have yet to locate one.

OpenCL is not open source, OpenCL is a specification for a CUDA-equivalent language and API. Drivers are still necessary, and will likely be produced by the makers of the graphics hardware (ATI, Nvidia, Intel). Open source drivers and compilers are certainly possible, but I wouldn't expect them to be equivalent to the closed source stuff for sometime yet.

This and the episode with the fuel production crew going on strike pretty much killed any positive opinion I had of the show. Let's examine the situation: 40k people, mostly civilian. A handful of highly trained military including fighter pilots, a necessary component of warfare as conducted in the series. Training new pilots is an expensive and time consuming proposition, you have to spend a substantial amount of time at each location to train, I'm not saying days, but at least a day to plan and then execute training sorties. You have to have the resources to fuel them, which given how they spent a whole episode hunting down a source for fuel seems to make it rather rare. Now, take the second best pilot (as I recall he's the best technical pilot, and Starbuck is the best pilot) in the fleet, and tell him, "Yeah, it's ok to quit now, we don't really need you." Then you have to waste weeks to train someone else to fill his slot, of course they won't even be close to his skill level so it won't really be a replacement. The only thing keeping the remaining human population (at this time in the series) from extinction was the military and the fuel. Why would you throw it all away because you have daddy issues?