Not to mention the greatest piece of magic he ever wrought: bending the carriers to his will. Apple continues to do this better than anyone.

For me, when I'm working on my computer 8-10 hours a day the comfort, convenience, and "little things" mean a lot. Day after day after day.

For me, the price is negligible compared to the delta in the experience between using a MBP and something else. An Adamo or a Panasonic-something running Linux.

That's why I even go so far as to totally rebuild my MBP internals with dual OWC Mercury Pro Enterprise SSDs in RAID-0.

Seriously? I worked on Alltel's CellTop 2 years before the iPhone came out and CellTop looked and behaved UX-wise lightyears before anything before it. Where has it gotten us? No where: because it's built on layers and layers and layers of "channel partners" (read: toll gates) and layers and layers of code that has to ride on top of the native OS. How Firefox can outcompete Safari at it's own game is a mystery to me. Just because you (FF) might win a few upcoming benchmarking contests isn't going to make FF a winner. If it was, Apple could simply ride Safari mobile roughshod bareback over a bloated "platform independent" FF Mobile. Seriously.