For example AMD64 which actually has a practical 48-bit address space allows 65,000 times the address space of 32-bit at a small processing overhead. An address space of 128bit is significantly bigger than all the data stored on earth. There is nothing innovative about getting an address space that big, it's just plain pointless at this point in time.

ARM are not trying to be the fastest or most forward thinking, they are trying to be cost effective and power efficient and a 64-bit version of their chip would free developers from the 4GB address space limit of 32-bit - to one over 65,000 times larger.

I can't stress this enough, this isn't a factor of 2x or a factor of 10x or even 1000x larger, this is a factor of 65,000x times larger...

I'll do you the opposite for my Linux box

There are plenty of privilege escalation and remote access exploits on that site. Some patched, some unpatched (not everyone keeps up to date with updates). Did you even look at the list there?

Anyway, a lot of exploits there are remote access exploits. The exploit talked about in this story is a local privilege escalation exploit way down on the severity list and it was patched before it became public.

Just a quick google search: http://secunia.com/advisories/41122

There are quite a few listed on secunia, it's a really good site. Currently lists 10 unpacked vulnerabilities in Windows Vista, none for Linux surprisingly, it must be a conspiracy against Microsoft and those damn Linux fanboys.

What if you dont run Windows? - Or run an unsupported version of windows for that matter?

Hardware problems likely.

I've only used rosetta briefly and it was stable for me, but running analysis software under hardware emulation? - not the best idea.

So your complaint is the iMac is too quiet? -- install the OS onto a loud external USB drive then go into System Preferences -> Startup Disk and let it boot from USB by default.

Click on System Preferences -> Sharing and tick File Sharing -- from there your public folder is shared onto the local network, to add anything else just right click -> Get Info -> Sharing.

Mac also supports NFS (not tried NFS server though), but you can mount NFS shars with mount_nfs -P host:share destination.

Never tried but I'm sure you can find free icon collections and just overwrite the default icon files in the original location.

KDE has this feature although it's a bit crippled and isn't system wide - but it's without a doubt one of my favourite things in OSX.

OSX doesn't have software installation (some packages come with installers but they just copy the application over to /Applications) - every application is a special self contained directory that you simply drag to trash when you are done with it - because OSX has spotlight, it creates any file associations as soon as you copy the application somewhere spotlight keeps a track of (think a pimped out inotify daemon on Linux).

Click on spaces in the dock and drag+drop the window wherever you want.

Go into system preferences -> spaces and assign whatever applications you want to whatever space you want.

This is in system preferences -> desktop -- it's right there on the first page: "change picture: every": 5 seconds, 1 minute, 5/15/30/60 minutes, every day, when logging in and when waking from sleep.

I've never tried to take apart an iMac but a quick google search shows this: http://home.comcast.net/~woojo/DFFA53A0-F23D-4541-9015-481FD3B6532E/iMac_Disassembly.html - no suction cups needed.

Macs are generally harder to disassemble and when I had to take apart my Macbook Pro for a hard drive upgrade, there were something in the range of 4 groups of different screw types to keep track of - but at least the screws don't just fall out like my on my Fujitsu laptop and then the warranty people claim you unscrewed them and forgot to screw them back in :)

I guess anything that has smooth edges and no little plastic doors will be harder to disassemble.

I liked the mighty mouse but I like my microsoft mouse more and my logitech mouse even more, I had some mice I liked and some I didn't - pick whatever you're comfortable with.

No you can't, coming from Linux this is quite a pain on both Mac and Windows - if you find a solution, let me know :)

My macbook pro is the only laptop I've ever had to withstand constant on the road use for almost 2 years now - I've had comparably priced Dell, Fujitsu, Panasonic (the panasonic was the next best one), Toshiba and IBM and they all had hinge problems or screen problems or battery problems all within 12 months. I still get over 3 hours battery on my 2.16ghz CoreDuo Macbook Pro after almost 2 years of use and I've dropped it quite a few times from quite high distances.

It may be pretty but it's also built to last and powerful enough to be a true desktop replacement.