FFS, this stuff is not new, the allies have been doing active SigInt for decades, you just noticed?

Like that, only more cylindrical.

I agreed with a similar comment elsewhere. There's a clear hole between mini and pro that's orthagonal to the macbook.

I was a little surprised by this since I have a mac and an ipad and a bunch of free books in iBooks. I had simply never noticed before that I can't actually read those books on the mac.

This is probably because I use the Kindle bookstore instead since they're cheaper on average. (Or were when I checked last...)

Kind of amusing that the Kindle book reader has been available for years for OSX.

While I agree with about 90%, it does depend on how you define "game".

Given that you can get better framerates doing OpenGL in Java now than you could 15 years ago in C, it's really not that simple.

... and right.

Didn't I warn you about the lawn already?

I am told by those who know more than me that Domino is actually pretty good, it's the client that sucks dead dingo kidneys. However, the Exchange to Domino migration has been known to trigger a wide variety of psychological and medical disorders.

My one and only open source project got forked after I stopped maintaining it.

You have clearly never been forced to use Lotus Notes.

So if we just showed up at WETA could we get a tour of the render farm?

They currently max out at 16GB of RAM and have an Intel graphics chip.

There are a lot of people for whom that is a show stopper, yet don't want to dish out over $2000 for a mac pro.

But the only thing between the mini and the pro is the macbooks.

Something about the size of a Shuttle but with the expected Apple quality and slightly more flexability for parts and priced at say twice the price of a mini would prevent me from having to solve that equation with a PC.

Get your dirty hands off my macbook!

(It's for testing, it's the only Windows 8 install I have, I swear!)

*Looks at sign*

Yes sir, you are in a designated fact-free zone, you may flame at will.

Exactly, I use an iPad with the Logitech keyboard cover and it's far more useful and powerful than anything I used in the 80's except it lacks the precision for graphics you could get in autocad (yes autocad is that old, I used it on an 8086 with an amber screen) and there are almost no onboard development tools.

Perhaps Orion will take care of that...

Yes, todays tablets. But in 1980 if you said that PCs would soon be on every office workers desks and within 15 years it would be possible for average people to instantly talk to anyone at a computer almost anywhere in the world they would have been equally puzzled.

And here we are 15 years after that and I bet your mom can now do it with her phone. (Current generation of smartphones is more powerful than the supercomputers of the '80s)

Never say never my friend. My bet is that 15 years from now the "PC" format will be back to the hands of the elite that had them in the early 1990's while everyone else is able to do EVERYTHING with their phone... or watch... or ... *sigh* glasses...