I really don't get it: the US and many parts of the world are burning oil at an increased rate, temperatures are rising, Antarctica is melting down, Fukushima has blown out radioactivity into the world.... and many people here are complaining about "glueing batteries to a case" not being eco friendly??? Seriously?

Wanna be immersed more? Just get a bigger screen (e.g. Full HD projector)!

"OO-rah-nos" (more or less) it is in the German language. "Your" is "Dein", so no strange associations implied. Just in most other languages as well. This is an English problem only.

Just to make that clear: I am neutral in the MacOS vs Windows thingie.

That all might be true, I think however, that I can distinguish between well marketed crap (e.g. several of the last CoDs) and good stuff that happens to be well marketed (like Apple). I don't buy Apple because of it's image, but because it just works.

#UPDATE (4hrs old): [www.argyll-bute.gov.uk] , which seems quite OK!

How should design and software be "all about marketing"? Good design speaks by itself and does not neet marketing to be good. And software only "gets you" when you use it, sometimes for a long time (an experience by far long after markting and not really influenced by it).

Well, then let me add to my list 2 points that come somehow together with design:

Obviously you don't have Macs at all in your job. Otherwise you would add a simple, cheap 2,5" hard disk with every mac and switch on Time Machine. Both problems: "We use serialized software, and users don't backup properly anyways." solved.

2 reasons why ultrabooks don't beat the new Macbook Air:

So [www.guardian.co.uk] was no real deal?

So isn't it great that everyone has the option to do the one thing or the other? I don't know if it is relevant to you for your job, but the Retina MBP should be more or less silent, with no vibrating HD in it.

Squaring the circle isn't easy and does not come cheap. No issues, just fact. Pay for the best or accept compromises.

If you would know Apple's history and that it was one step before the end, you could imagine that they are simply deeply conservative about their cash flow.

The MBP Retina is indeed brand new and - in that combination of excellence - the first of it's kind. And it is not at all an "off the shelf" platform which Apple has just branded. It is a new development in as small things as the ventilation fan design and in as big things as the display and everything in between.

And yet you read and comment on Apple news?

...and that is exactly the right attitude towards that!

If you say so, please show me examples. I know NO OTHER company nor device that comes only close to the MBP Retina's combined specs and dimensions.

The retina Macbook is affordable....

There is dedicated noise reduction circuitry by Audience inside the 4S and obviously the iPad 3, but not below. That should be why.