personally, i think this comparison is simply too subjective to draw any hard conclusions.

lots of love for rogue amoeba here...but they forgot the very awesome and totally free soundsource. it lets you change audio inputs and outputs right from the menu bar. simple and reliable. here is a link: [rogueamoeba.com]

is the NC power grid dirty? yeah, it is. does most of the energy for the US come from coal? yes it does. Did Maiden, NC offer the best package of cost and incentives to induce Apple to build its data center there? Yes it most certainly did.

first of all, if it's electronic and mass-produced...it's already being made in china and has been for years. cellphones, computers, gaming consoles, video/audio gear....it's all being built in the same factories and rolling off the same assembly lines. if you want to send a message about the plight of asian workers,…

for cost, utility and comfort...it's hard to beat the ikea poang chair with ottoman. it would appear from the thin cushion that it wouldn't be comfy for long periods, but it definitely is. the basic chair in off-white costs around $100, and since it's flatpacked, you can buy one and throw it in the back of a compact…

i'm all for a better way to get a screen protector on...but there is a cheaper way. get 1 pair of thin rubber medical gloves, 1 small can of compressed air and a microfiber cloth. the rubber gloves will keep fingerprint oils off the plastic and once the screen is cleaned with the cloth, a few well-placed shots of…

$70,000 for an ugly murphy bed with some drawers?

maybe you should start a protest. round up as many people as you can find who feel like you do and then stage a protest by walking out and boycotting the giz forever. go on. the rest of us will just wait here and chat amicably amongst ourselves.

my first mac was a dual-floppy drive mac SE which would later sport an ehman 20MB HD and an apple imagewriter dot matrix printer. loved those machines...since then, i've had 3 imacs, a REV. B, a DV SE and a 20'' core duo imac.

i've had good luck with drobo. it's cross-platform and very durable. customer service is excellent and best of all, you can use different drive capacities in the same RAID and dynamically switch to larger volumes at any time. admin is dead simple and you can get the 5 bay drobo S (ethernet only) for around $550 online

you mean companies that by spending billions on flash are actually helping drive prices down? look at SSD's. a couple of years ago you couldn't get one without spending thousands. now they're hundreds. you only get that kind of movement through economies of scale....and apple is leading the bus that is driving prices…

sorry, but i don't agree. my HRT music streamer II is a USB DAC that is not only asynchronous, but it can handle sample rates up to 96K. the sound is really nice...and world's better than that of an on-board sound card. it was $150. Hell, I drove my 300 ohm HD600's off a $99 nuforce uDAC that did a very credible job.…

battery tech sounds about right to me. they've got a lock on NAND, they've got the A series of customized processors. now they need a superior battery technology to go where others cannot....

it looks like what you'd get if you weaponized my little dot mkIII tube amp. very cool.

@senorbelly: old mac geezers will remember the apple duodock line. your mac laptop slid into a desktop docking station which would essentially turn it into a desktop machine with a wide array of standard ports in the rear. when you were done, you pushed a button and the dock would "eject" the laptop. pretty…

use a double edge razor and recycle the metal blades. no disposable rubber plastic handle. one hunk of plated brass and you're good for life.

if you were concerned about privacy issues with facebook before, just wait...

@fenrir604: since you're a REAL gamer, i'm betting you're also an underage tween who hasn't learned that there is far more to individuality than simply how something appears.

i'd love to be an invisible guest around that dinner table.

there are an awful lot of "ifs" with this story...