Get a Sony Vaio and all your laptop worries will be over.

“Have you tried rebooting?”

That said, the Air is as other point out a second machine, not a primary, so it might not be sucha good idea to migrate everything over.

also i love reading your blog to see all the people who are clearly going to die early from stroke or heart attacks nothing like listening to people getting stressed over nothing. ciao.

I was linked to this story via Fake Steve Jobs, BTW. I’m sure that’s bound to piss off a few Maclets, too.

Do you remember the battle of the iPhone projections last year? In the midst of some rumor reporting by fairly major players in the financial analysis business showing Apple and the IPhone were getting creamed, Shaw Wu went out and did some hard counting and found it all a bunch of hot air about nothing. Now Shaw Wu takes his lumps (often unfairly) from the fans sometimes but this dude knows what he is doing. Now 10 million looks to be a tad conservative.

Some folks out there tried to spin the illicit use of iPhones in China as something bad. When people from a country spend double the product’s price to get something that only half works like it is supposed to, isn’t that good news? Can you spell Apple store in Beijing during the Summer Olympics? (Never mind those restive Tibetians and their pushy leader – they will be all taken out and shot later after everybody goes home if indeed our Chinese friends wait THAT long).

Do you remember when it was taken nearly as gospel that when Apple dropped the word ‘Computers’ from its name that they were suddenly no longer going to make computers? This was real reporting from people who were respected and should know better.

Last week, there was a prominent post concerning the Air running so hot that you couldn’t hold it in your lap to work. What was THAT all about? If it would have been just some lone weirdo blogger that would have been fine but this guy was sponsored by a major magazine and it got picked up in a lot of places because of that association.

My wife has been keeping a log of all of the bogus finaicial and sales projections that have been floating around over the last couple of years (and they were many, many, many, many – Apple to 105 by summer – anybody want to take the short side of that bet NOW) with the sole intention of jamming them up their author’s butt when they turn out to be beyond false.

There has just been a never ending drum beat of this nonsense to the point that some comments by someone as yourself who just wants the products to work better get lumped into the same catagory and those others. This kind of thing is going to go on a long as some powerful people in the publishing and finaicial worlds keep sponsoring the anti-Apple spin machine.

I have been a fan of Apple almost since the beginning when our firm bought the first Macintosh’s in 1984. My son had an Apple IIe. We noticed early on that Apple usage required less customer support than the DOS based machines, and we tried to enlist Apple executives to provide application development support to us, but they weren’t really keen on supporting corporate America, and over time our support for Apple became untenable, as Microsoft stepped up its corporate support, and we reluctantly went with Windows as our standard operating platform. However at home, I always felt Apple was a better platform for consumers, but again because so many people used Windows at work, they chose Windows for home use. Now that I’m retired I can indulge myself with Apple and not worry anymore about being conversant with two platforms. I think the unease with which some view Apple has to do with the non-conformist culture that Apple has cultivated over the years going back to the famous commercial during the 1984 Superbowl. Plus many computer users tend to dismiss Apple products as being too expensive when that is not true when you consider the entire cost of owning a computer. Although I grant that Apple monitors and memory are overpriced. By the way I loved your article on dealing with financial advisor who tell you never to sell. I ran into that with my advisor and of course when he finally sold all of my holdings, the stock market started going back up.

So, I’m a switcher. I guess the 2000 lingo for that is a flip-flopper?

I can say that since I’ve been on my Powerbook life has gotten much simpler – it just works day after day with no Viruses or Mcafee or Norton headaches and rarely an OS update that completely disables my machine.

As for Leopard, I do have to say that in the OS X release cycle (with the exception of 10.0 and 10.1) this has been a rather weak effort. We shouldn’t be surprise because Steve said it would be delayed due to the iPhone release and the same developers working on the iPhone mini OS X system as Leopard. Then all the massive criticism and push to make SURE Leopard was released ontime.

So, we go it ontime. It does need some work. However, from what I’ve seen and reported, the bug fixes have been very effective.

Let’s not forget that Apple is at the forefront of the Green movement. They released the first ever LED backlit notebooks. I’ve been waiting on the LED backlit Macbook Pro’s and they just released those.

It seems this fear oriented environment we are currently in has driven people to be fearfully critical of almost anything. Why not drink less caffeine and pause a moment to realize that we are in fact all human beings – quite fallible in fact!

I have installed Leopard on several hundred Macs without a problem.

welcome to the club.

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