I'm rather happy with the stock keyboard on ICS (4.0), frankly it rivals my iPhone. I'm guessing if I had a little faster hardware - right now rocking the Nexus S 4G - it'd be even better.

Merino wool, as you very well stated, is an amazing fabric. I was turned on to wool 10 years ago before a trip to the UK in the fall, which would involve tons of walking, cold and lots of rain. I took a bunch of socks with, but for the 10 days I was there I only wore the two pairs of SmartWool socks I brought with…

I know several endurance cyclists who swear by wool jerseys, even for 200-300 mile gravel grinders in the midwest summer heat. It seems that many will challenge them, try one, and never go back.

It's true, but Apple managed to pull off PPC to Intel. While certainly Rosetta, and the whole transition, had it's faults - they still managed to pull it off. Rather well, in fact, and didn't take too much flak for it.

See that's the real rub. You hit it on the head with Android, which is what's great about it. Even with iOS through all it's faults, a 3GS that someone bought what, almost 3 years ago is going to get iOS 6. Sure my original iPad won't, but it's two years old so I'm OK with that.

Selectively, of course. My kid's 3GS is going to get iOS6, but my original iPad isn't.

Welcome to Android-land, WinMo users.

I concur. There is now a long history of huge tech fumbles that started by announcing a product without a firm ship date or price as a response to a competitor. I get the feeling this is going to end up right there with the PlayBook and other huge tech gaffes due to this very problem. Microsoft was clearly reacting…

I really want this thing, the more I read about it. Yet gadgets of days passed that had similar pre-launch hype are echoing in my head. Let's just look at recent memory! Aside from being crippled by not having a flipping email client, the BlackBerry PlayBook is a complete reminder of this thing. Or Motorola…

BINGO. Every. single. big new tech I've read about that's had either a lack of ship date or lack of price has been either a flop or vaporware. I've been in this game for what, 12 years now? And yeah, that's really unfortunate.

It gives the competition time to innovate, and kills the buzz of the news cycle. It's all about PR.

Two huge problems that I know are going to bit this thing in the ass:

Dicks. But hey.

Am I the first person to think of the Sabre Tablet announcement at the Sabre Store when I read this?

What's funny, shortly after going to FCPx, CS6 came out - and I hear the same thing. Most I knew were on the fence of tolerating Premiere, or going to Avid or FCP. I gave up, partially because I absolutely needed new hardware, but those who went CS6 say it's great.

Not really, and I really should. I basically was Final Cut —> Premiere/After Effects —> FCPx. I tried a trial version of Vegas and it was at a bad time. My editing rig at the time was a mashup, and it didn't run so hot - so I went almost immediately back to Premiere and Just Dealt.

Have you ever attempted to write a hardware driver? Especially for something like a GPU, which is proprietary to the bone?

HP's workstation line is quite fantastic. I had a XW8400 with dual quad-core Xeons and 8GB of RAM with a Quadro at my old job (five years ago) and loved the damn thing. It could tear through anything I threw at it. When I changed jobs they said I'd get a "workstation class, high end Dell laptop" which turned out to…

That's my thought. Even lowly 1080p editing using FCPx on my MacBook Pro will use all 16GB of it's 16GB of memory. Some simple maths tell me that 5K would use uhhalot.

Hear hear. Well not the only thing, but a major thing. I went to Windows for a bit and tried to love After Effects and Premiere but I can't.