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Shadoe Huard:

Purchasing the best computer you could afford made sense 10 years ago, when your computer became obsolete and underpowered almost the minute your bought it.

During the "clock speed race" I was upgrading the components constantly on my workhorse. New processors, more ram, graphic cards, etc., ad nauseum. My current go-to laptop is a dirty, grungy, white Macbook I bought in the summer of 2007. A four year old laptop that is still capable enough to be used for serious work, 8 years ago my head would have exploded at the prospect.

I am so glad to have read this article today. The previous rumours, which I refuse to link to, hold no water. While yes it is possible for Apple to do anything they would like this possibility is akin to the prospects of Apple running itself into bankruptcy over the coming quarter (i.e., incredibly unlikely).

Stu Maschwitz:

After looking at the Best Buy version, the correct version looks positively sad. This is why we don’t taste Pino Noirs after drinking a Doctor Pepper, and why you can’t compare TVs in a store. At Best Buy, you’re not comparing TVs, you’re comparing settings. It’s not just that TVs in stores are too bright, too colorful, and too blue—they are clawing over one another to display the brightest, bluest, and most saturated image on a wall of 300 competitors.

Having worked in a big box electronic store I can fully attest to the absolutely awful in store settings. The worst part, people come specifically looking for those television sets that make movies look that way. It's a strange form of stockholm syndrome.

A very sensible account of why this rumour seems unlikely and I would argue this rumour is insane.^[1]

Mike Cane's personal tale of horror when he seriously evaluated the Android tablet market. There are a lot of salient points here, especially interesting is the intentional(?) crippling of the wifi version of Samsung's Galaxy Tab.

It is the stark honesty of the developer (of course alongside an amazingly well thought and executed service) that continually impresses me enough to pay for his application and a subscription to the website without question. Smart people, like Marco Arment, prove that they deserve our support through their actions and honest communications.

I can't even begin to imagine the fear and embarrassment that Ms. Chrissy Lee Polis feels and hope that this incident doesn't crush her attempts to realize her own identity. It is sad to hear of incidents like this one taking place in our communities. I remain hopeful that these are attacks out of ignorance and that through time we would see this uninformed hate come to an end. The truth of this statement I cannot comment upon but that is of no consequence, my hopes remains high no matter because persons like Ms. Polis require our support.

(via Boing Boing)

Adam W. King:

But at some point, the appeal of that smiling veneer starts to cheapen. The quippy sunshine, the meticulous personal branding, the glowing breakfast reviews — they have to be balanced with something real and substantial.

His short discussion of social media, in light of the recent "flood" of ultra-personal written works should serve as a consideration for all that communicate via the internet. Obviously the weight that "personalization" would carry through mediums like twitter are limited by the constraints of the method, however, small doses of real personality should concentrate over time into something more substantial.

It is sad to see such a promising device come up so short.