I've got a mouse I can sell you for $80, or I can charge you more if you think it will help you play better.

As nearly 100% of "digital music players" played mp3s, or at least had tools to convert them during transfer, I don't see the problem with this.

Lenovo Thinkpad's have expensive batteries that allow for fine-grained control of these charging ranges. It can maintain it automatically, or you can set custom thresholds. i.e charge if below x%, stop charging at y%. This allows you to do things like commute back and forth from work without the constant 99% -> 100% charge cycle. Otherwise you lose a bit of charge on your commute and plugin at work/home inducing another cycle.

woooooooosh

Seriously? I'd say it's useful for 90% of what Google Earth is used for commercially, i.e surveying. Trees are just as significant as buildings when it comes to mapping the land.

Just because it's not useful for you to map your trip to Bob's house doesn't mean it's not useful for others.

You do realise the font uses sub-pixel rendering? A pixel is made of 3 (or more?) sub-pixels on LCD displays. Which sub-pixels are lit depends on the colour of the overall pixel.
Cleartype uses the same concept.

So each pixel in the font is of a particular colour depending on what sub-pixels should be lit. Effectively the font actually uses less than 1 pixel for some features of a character.

There are a lot of people that just use their computer for facebook and generally using the web, especially people looking in this price range. The kind of people that need to write documents on the subway would not be using this. I see it as more the 'laptop for the kids/casual use' which is probably 90% of what laptops are used for in the home. I myself have an expensive laptop which I just use for browsing the web and a desktop PC for doing work. In hindsight I would have been far better off getting the cheapest smallest netbook that could run a web browser.

But surely each student would generally only be using one device at a time?

I guess having two devices increases the odds of having one of them connected.

Using a computer with encryption is different from *knowingly* using encryption. i.e visiting a https web site using SSL is a bit different to keeping a black book of crimes in a hidden TrueCrypt volume.

I think it's fair enough, given the clause of "knowingly".

99% consumers care about two things with regards to monitors; inches and cost.

They don't understand resolution. To them, a 15" running at 1280x800 is "bigger and better, yet magically costs less" than a 13" running at 1440x900 which for some reason costs more.

Look at the HTC Desire and HTC Desire "HD". The "HD" version is exactly the same resolution, but just a bigger form factor. So HTC add on a "HD" because of the bigger screen. Sure enough, people are all over it because of the "high definition large screen". When in reality, it has less DPI.

IMHO, monitors should be required to advertise the DPI prominently. That way, "regular people" can compare the cost to the DPI and get a better understanding of what they're paying for, or not paying for.