GP must be referring to the standard DisplayPort connector, not Mini DisplayPort.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Displayport-cable.jpg

The Galaxy Nexus was pretty much in a league of it's own at the time. Seems like Samsung was really pushing for it.

The Nexus One was basically an HTC Desire.
The Nexus S was pretty much a Galaxy S.
The Nexus 4 is very close (internally) to the LG Optimus G.
This new Nexus 5 looks like will be based on an LG G2

Nah, he might be in Canada where we can get a $50-per month (minimum, which probably has 100mb data) on a THREE year contract to get the phone "cheaply"

Wow um... I didn't read your wall of text, but would you like a cookie or something?

Not sure if Funny or Informative. Which one more represents "probably true"?

I think they may be coming back soon. I'm in the market for an "ultrabook" right now and I'm quite pleased that there are actually some with higher screen resolutions.

Many of Asus's Zenbook lineup have 1980x1080, same with the new Dell XPS 13. They're still restricting themselves to screens they can market as "Full HD" and 1080p, but we're moving. I doubt anybody will market a higher resolution until they can market it like Apple with their Retina display.

I'm looking at a 13" to replace my 4 year old Macbook Pro. 1280x720 on it was small in 2009, and it feels like it is growing more so in this day and age.

Replying to undo mod. Meant to pick funny.

Indeed, I have a 4th generation iPod touch and my wife has an iPhone 4s. Although it shares the resolution, great for text, the screen on the iPhone is vastly superior when it comes to playing games or watching videos.

Excellent post, except one minor correction: the new retina MacBook Pro has USB 3, so Apple is doing USB 3. I suspect all future devices will have it.

I'm torn on the issue.

I think they should keep updating phones while they're continuing to sell them. The iPhone 3gs has iOS 5 because they're still selling it. This helps drive sales of older models (which may have higher margins as they age) because people are more likely to buy the comparable device with newer software & better features over the one with older software.

It would certainly be nice if they kept updating software after they discontinue it. My issue is that people shouldn't be buying phones (or any other tech) based on what it "will do" and buy more for what it does. This will also help discourage manufacturers from releasing products knowingly that suck now but will not suck later.

I applaud Samsung for this because if they don't want to keep the devices up to date then at least the community can. It would certainly be nice if they could keep the things up to date on their own, but I'd be willing to bet most of their share holders are interested in seeing their money go towards new products than old products that don't make money.

Other pro-Mac considerations:
1. Battery life. My 13" unibody MacBook Pro is almost 3 years old now and I still get decent battery life, 3 hours easily under moderate load. My previous HP dv1000 series laptop was lucky to get 2 under light load when it was new.
2. Trackpad - the Mac touchpad/trackpads are fantastic!
3. Magsafe adapter!! I cannot emphasize this one enough, especially with kids around.
4. Backlit keyboard. This is available on many PC laptops but not all. I very much miss this when I'm using other systems as I often like to work in environments where light doesn't seem to hit the keyboard sufficiently.
5. The screen is a huge benefit. I'm amazed at how lousy the screen is on a lot of laptops still these days. I could be mistaken but I believe it is systems with these TN panels where as Apple only uses IPS panels. Difference is night and day compared to most of the budget systems friends & family own.

It does not upload 100mb of data. Dropbox syncs at the block level using an rsync-like algorithm. Dropbox definitely needs to scan the entire container to figure out which blocks have changed and upload. I don't know what the block size is like or if it is determined by Truecrypt/Dropbox/both, but chances are if you change 1mb it is only going to upload approximately 1mb.

Yes, it only uploads the changes. The Dropbox client still needs to scan the entire container to determine what has changed however.

The only other downfall I have to using Dropbox+Truecrypt is remembering to unmount the volume each time. If you have a Truecrypt volume mounted in multiple locations you end up with a conflicting file which you need to manually correct. It can be a pain.

I use EncFS in my Dropbox (which BoxCryptor is built on). This way the contents are encrypted and the synchronization happens at the file level, less chance of conflicting files. This also means I can set up my home machine to automatically mount the EncFS volume. My concern is about cloud privacy, not about physical privacy in my home so this works well.