Just imagine 250 million pigeons with attached 4 GB memory sticks flying around South Africa, and that should give you an idea of how big this is.

Back-of-the-envelope calculations for pigeon guano suggest that many pigeons would produce 2,500 metric tons of pigeon sh*t a day.

Not exactly. Those perks are available for a fee - at O2, for example, free weekends is an extra GBP 5 a month. Another GBP 5 for unlimited O2 to O2 calls. Free nights isn't even available at O2. With Verizon in the US, I had free nights, weekends, and Verizon to Verizon calls standard. If O2 offered all of those as options, it would be GBP 15, or about $25 extra a month.

If you are going to claim that Dell is cheaper than Apple, here's an opportunity to make some money. I'll paypal $100 to the first person who can find a Dell laptop that is cheaper than Apple and matches it's features.

While this could be construed as trolling, I write this in good faith to demonstrate that Mac's have features no other manufacturer can touch.

Don't forget to include

* Obviously, screen size, HD, Memory, CPU, etc.
* Booting as a Firewire Hard Drive in Targeted Disk Mode
* Optical Audio In and Out
* Honest to god 7 hour battery life (or even 5 hours if 7 hours is too hard to find at Dell)
* Gigabit Ethernet
* A power cord that safely comes out when a 3-year old child runs into the cord
* LED Backlit display
* Sudden Motion Sensor reducing Hard-Drive damage if you do ever drop it
* Preinstalled with a Malware/Viruse free OS (Linux certainly qualifies)

Sure, you could argue that YOU don't value these features. I never said you did. But I do (some of them, anyway), others do, and we're willing pay for them.

Do you own a Black IROC Z? If so, sorry, I was the one who vomited in your sunroof last week. My bad :(

Well, I've had 73 girlfriends over the years, so I think I have gotten it right. Much like file systems, each of my ex's offers something uniquely special.

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Of course, it's a lot easier to bring a filesystem back to my mother's basement where I live . . . sigh

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Ditto on the work of art. I met a French woman in Corsica who had chosen Polaroids as her preferred medium for art. The colors had that cooky, dated hue right away. It inspired me to buy a Polaroid, though I rarely use it. Her website, with said Polaroid pics: http://clotildefotopassion.free.fr/