Good idea. I might just look into this. Makes perfect sense.

Oh, you so totally win.

Well, that's five minutes of my life I'll never have back. If there's an award for the most inconsequential blog post of this year (decade?), I think Jesus can declare victory and go home. But, hey, I am glad iOS 6 is so much better for you now.

I think you're right. People love great design, And when one buys the new MBP, one's buying not only a status symbol, but a wicked fine computer. But the pricing sure will keep a lot of folks out of the market.

This. I have an Air. And Parallels, which I call "training wheels." Am thinking about ditching Parallels for the SSD space. Remember, more than one person has bought an Air just for the form factor, only to run Win 7 or Linux on it. That's not necessary now, but when the MBA came out—and even until earlier this…

Yes, millions. Sorry, Casey. It's called "Googling it"

Me too, and I am glad they did it. Information is good.

I hear you, I really do. But I will say that my Mac Air is the first laptop I've owned where I didn't have to turn off some sort of "tap to click" setting in the mouse/trackpad control panel. Some recent non-Mac machines have good touchpads, but the Air is the best one I've ever had. If these new Windows machines…

This. My mother in law has a touchscreen all-in-one desktop machine. Reaching up to touch sucks. The mouse is much better. Same as a trackpad. That is, for the declining number of users who still use these machines for "work."

I love my Air, but the machines mentioned here are all compelling machines, if I was spending my own money (instead of my employer's) these would get a serious look.

That's true—I work at a university, and our replacement cycle is about 4 years. Which isn't terrible, but it does push machines down the pecking order. But my IT guy seems to have found some shops that are really, really good at quick repairs once these things are out of warranty. But I do have to admit that the…

Grammar pedantry is what I do!

In 2-3 years, the hard-core users are going to replace this anyway. I have an Air, which I love, and I wouldn't dream of opening it. This strikes me as little different. And my experience is that Applecare provides better support than just about any other maker. So there's that. But there's no way I am buying a new…

"No matter how secure a [family] may [seem], sick pedophiles will always find a way to sneak through." There, I fixed it.

True that. It's the Magazine of Western Living, after all.

The high turnout probably had something to do with the equally daft idea of just stone cold eliminating all property taxes in North Dakota. But in a major trifecta of common sense, the good people of ND rejected this religious nuttery, the property tax ban, and agreed that the big Fighting Sioux thing for the UND…

Ok, more encouragement: After three days, the pain killers were making me sicker than the surgery itself. So I was gonna flush 'em down the toilet, and the G.F. says "nooooo!!!" I think she joined Team Percoset later. One with a glass of wine, so I am told. I don't like pain killers—just give me some Ibuprofen and I'm…

No. I'll feel better when you've mastered English, though. "Smart-ass" is an adjectival phrase, and takes a hyphen in this instance. A period, not a comma, traditionally marks the end of a sentence. Of course, this is a blog comment, not a novel, so perfect grammar isn't a must. But it's really hard to take someone at…

It's not fun. But it's not as bad as it sounds. I had all four of mine out when I was in my early 30s. The chemicals are nice, but they do wear off. But I recovered in 3 days, tops, and 2 of those were pretty easy but I whined some and my girlfriend brought me cold drinks and I watched sports, so, win. Just get a good…

Your kid isn't using social sites as far as you know. Kids have a way of circumventing parental edicts. In the meanwhile, your kid should still be allowed to join social networks focused on grammar and morphology.