That's great. I'm glad you have the skills to do those things. I've done similar projects in other impoverished parts of the world.

My grandfather died of lung cancer. My grandmother died of lung cancer. My aunt is dying of lung cancer. My dad had emphysema. My uncle has emphysema.

Okay, so you want to compare the upgrade ability to a laptop that, similarly equipped (http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=swct84b&model_id=precision-m6600&c=us&l=en&s=soho&cs=ussoho1& vs. http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC975LL/A? ), is twice as heavy (8lbs vs 4lbs), comes with slower RAM…

And more importantly of this speed. Plus it comes with a fancy USB 3.0 enclosure.

Right... Because nobody who uses an Apple product can resist upgrading every time something new is released, right?

And that comes with a USB 3.0 enclosure for your existing SSD and will fit in a laptop that's .71" thick?

Shhh. You're tampering with the delicate exotic fruit of ignorance that seems to permeate this persons reality.

I was able to rip the optical drive out of my unibody MBP, replace it with the original HDD, put an SSD in the HDD bay, and upgrade my RAM. It's a 2008. And you could do the same thing with any other unibody MBP model. But yeah. You're probably right. Nothing Apple's released in the last five years can be upgraded at…

So why wouldn't you just buy the lower end model and buy a much less expensive SSD on your own?

And this isn't that... why?

Hahahahahahahahaha. Haha. Ha. HOOOoooooo... I'm sorry. That's funny.

Thank you!

99¢ is ridiculous? For a song that you'll undoubtedly listen to hundreds of times in your lifetime? Let's say that the average song is two and a half minutes (2.5) multiply that by 100 (2.5*100). You get 250 minutes. That's 4.16 hours. If you only listen to it 100 times. 99¢ for over four hours worth of entertainment…

Mine has a cedar handel to create kindling with.

iDisplay allows for touch control on iOS.

You're name certainly fits your temperament.

Except that iChat got changed to Messages and iCal got changed to Calendar. I'd imagine that the "i" is going to get dropped from a lot of different things besides hardware soon.

For me, yes. It seems to be much more responsive. YMMV

It seems to have been that way for... too long.

You cared enough to click through to the article, scroll to the bottom, hit reply, type a response and hit submit. For someone who doesn't care you certainly went out of your way to tell us.