Nothing wrong with USB speeds, USB 3.0 is faster than Gigabit ( 5 times faster in fact). A dongle wont be degraded by the USB port.

US Federal Trade Commission is not likely to let either Intel (component market share ) or Apple (finished product market share, effect on direct competitors) buy ARM. Qualcomm, NVIdia, TI, Samsung and others would all be lining up to testify what havoc and destruction either aquisition would cause.
ARM may be based in the UK, but I'm sure this would have to pass US regulatory scrutiny.

Canada, the most similar economy to that of the US, does so well economically in part because it's had a huge tradition of immigrant entrepreneurship for decades.
Whereas the immigrant xenophobia in the US leads to incidents like a senior manager at a foreign car plant getting arrested for not having the right paperwork. If you treat foreign investors (who could put plants elsewhere) like that, what does it say to someone thinking of moving to the US to start a business?

In what category does Ivy Bridge 'under-perform' Sandy Bridge? It exceeds it in every category - esp performance per watt important in Ultrabooks - and is behind NO WHERE. Not living up to someone's expectations about how much better it is than SB is not the same as under-performing.

No, Tocks (Penryn, Nehalem, SandyB, Haswell) are new architecture, Ticks (Merom, Westmere, IvyBridge, Haswell-sucessor-on-next-gen-XXnm-process) are updated architecture on new process.

Terrible analogy given that there's no analog in the software for the alteration between manufacturing process and microarchitecture design steps that Tick / Tock represents.

Surreal in it's irrelevance...

Still waiting....

...what operating system is installed.

How can you sign up for 4G with Canadian telcos Rogers or Telus? According to the announcement:
"Apple's Tim Cook said. It will support U.S., U.K., and Australian English, French, German and Japanese voice dictation."
So there's no support for Canadian French or Canadian English.
I don't think Rogers or Telus are equipped to deal with foreign languages.