Seeing as the ram is built into the SOC, I’m guessing the real limit is needing to manufacture another part. That’s the downside of the SOC... every combination of Ram requires a different product rather than just soldering on more ram to the system board. Seeing as they are just getting started my guess is they wanted to stick to two major parts... the 8gb chip and the 16gb chip. I’m guessing a 32gb version will come out probably as part of a faster M1x that would be used in higher end MBPs

So can somebody clarify a few things related to html5 video for me? The video is encoded in one of these formats correct? ( H.264, WebM, etc). Then in html5 it is introduced into the page via some sort of video tag. So, if I'm using a browser that supports WebM, I still need it to support H.264 if I'm browsing a site that has videos encoded in H.264. Is this correct? So what is really the big deal about html5 vs playing video with a plug in? Just one less process running on the computer in favor of an additional browser process running (or a more bloated browser process)? Are the benefits that we now get tighter integration with the browser interface so you can now scale video or do weird stuff like rotations ala the firefox demo? In other words, is this really any different than, say, building quicktime playback natively into the browser rather than needing a plug-in? I understand that html5 offers a lot of new functionality but the video part of it seems unnecessary beyond removing a plug-in unless I'm not seeing something. And in some cases you still need a plug-in if your favorite browser doesn't support a certain kind encoded video. Thanks for any info.

I actually tend to like Windows and other Microsoft products but for some reason whenever they have to make a change for security or try to integrate something new, they seem to do so in a completely confusing way. For instance, could the extra security on IE 6&7 for allowing active x controls be any worse? What about the macro warning on basically any useful Access DB? It wouldn't surprise me if the XP compatibility feature in Win 7 is indeed a confusing mess. My theory is that they design this stuff by committee rather than having one smart person architect the stupid stuff. Thus, interface and process design gets convoluted and confusing. Ok, so this is all still in beta but it often surprises me why a lot of this stuff gets to public beta before people notice the confusion. I think the UAC was a good example of this... it should have never got out the door in its initial state.

My CS degree from University of Washington was based on Java. These are all recommendations from working through that degree. To learn the basics of Java I highly recommend Sun's books online. They are as well written as most things out there and I never found a need to use much else. The class library for Java is also much more straight forward and enlightening that anything Microsoft makes. Before I got itno the online resoursces, I actually referenced a lot of C# primer plus as the two languages are so similar. For Servlets and JSP I really like Murach's Java Servlets and JSP. Its a good basic intro and it will have a lot that you already know. However, its one of the best written books I've read and gets right to the point rather than filling pages with bloat. I'm really a big fan of Murach's books... they come out at a slower pace but have a lot more quality control than other series. For development I highly recommend either starting with Dr. Java or getting Eclipse and downloading the Dr. Java plugin. TextPad is also a good backup compiler to use. On one hand, Dr. Java is very simple and easy to use but has some bugs, but Eclipse is a big IDE to get into at first and start loading plugins can be confusing if you're not use to it. However, either way Dr. Java is an incredible learning resource. It allows you to play with Java in real time, so if you make an object, you can go into the Dr. Java interactions window and make an instance of your object and call its methods to see how it works all without making a wrapper class to test it. You can also play with core Java code too. So you can go in and type something like: int x = 8*2; x; and it will print out the value of x for you. All done without compiling or even having a file open. Its really nice to use to get use to how arrays and various other data structures work in Java. I also like some of the Java Data Structures and Algorithm textbooks just because those are good ways to see how the basics of the language work. However, I have always found for things like Swing, JOGL (openGL in Java), multithreaded programing or multiprocessor programming, etc I just prefer to use the resources online on Sun's site or through a google search. So many universities use Java now that you will get lots of .edu sites with really good tutorials. I can't stress how good of a resource Dr. Java is though.