but my wife is on a mission to print the internet.

Good to hear - the one I repaired was an A1212 - instructions here. Not much fun.

Was thinking exactly the same thing - replaced a hard drive in an MBP last year, 32 screws... all Philips, except the last 4 were torx. Didn't have the right size, so had to go into town the following day to complete the job. At least it was a relatively standard size though, unlike the screws they're using on their newer models... Someone is selling the screw drivers here though.

Yes, but he also shows how the vulnerabilities stem from libraries which the desktop uses, and how, potentially, there are vulnerabilities all the way down, right to the kernel itself. No simple fix - short of turning off all automatic execution of processes against any unknown source (which is what I have done for quite some time - I do have thumbnail generation on local files, but after watching that, I think I'll give that the boot too :)).

There are older stone circles in the UK than Stonehenge. The stone circles in Orkney predate Stonehenge for example, though admittedly not by as much as those claimed here.

I hear the phone a comin'
It's ringin' 'round the cell,
but I ain't seen the iPhone,
Since I don't know when,
I'm stuck in Folsom Prison,
Android keeps draggin' on,
But that phone keeps a-ringin',
On down to my old Samsung.

Kies is the most annoying thing ever - windows only (so no upgrade path for Linux and OSX users via that route - and no, vbox doesn't work even with USB enabled), buggy, bloated and provides everything except the things you need (incremental backup is really the only requirement as far as I'm concerned). Really like the Galaxy S, but the Kies thing is a blight on an otherwise excellent product.

Yeah, I was having a lot of problems with that - the fans kick in and roar like an engine (DVD play back seems to trigger it pretty quickly). Fixed it by balancing it on 4 empty beer cans. No joke - works like a charm - only side effect is that the beer cans get slightly warm...

Everything is different, but the same... things are more moderner than before... bigger, and yet smaller... it's computers... San Dimas High School football rules.

My favourites are Metal Detector and Lie Detector.

Think you're missing the larger picture here - this isn't sane, no matter what precedent has been set before. Seriously - what revenue is affected by a bunch of 3 year olds singing a copyrighted song? What revenue is due?

TomTom don't have a Linux client either, but their hardware runs on Linux. There's no Kindle for Linux either, and yet the hardware Kindle runs on Linux.

Those to me seem odder than the netflix and google cases.

Have fun. Haven't tried lua here yet, but python works fairly well.

Don't think they need to be *that* powerful to do what most people need - certainly not in order to cater for the suggested needs of the OP here. But agreed, not completely there yet.

There's nothing stopping anyone manufacturing a docking device which holds a portable device and extends it with keyboard, mouse and displaying on a decent sized monitor. The difference is that you're free to use it in other ways too.