Take a look - few minutes in. Essentially, game over for iPad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR6jLD1USW0

"centralised cloudism". PC means to most "personal" but why not personalize the "cloud". Maintain physical and virtual control over those resources that are important to me. I have connectivity, power, and an excess of computing resources at a very, very cheap cost. I also want to control it.

1Gb symetrical residential service in Hong Kong for US$29 per month. Yes, a congested city, but what about parts of NYC etc. No coherent policy toward utility services. We left it up to the incumbents and we are years behind.

Not hardware, nor proprietary software. Indicates where the real value is over time.

I have a 10 year old son who wants to learn programming. Any ideas?

Welcome to the Apocalypse. Let the monopolies restrict and reduce access to near nothingness.

MacBook or any other, new or old.

Buy a Mac