I don't care that it's lighter (granted I've never held one), but I would have rather had it the same thickness as the 4 with that space used for more battery capacity.

I'd at least use an invisible shield. The aluminum means less shatters, but more dents.

Just fyi here are more javascript and other benchmarks, and they all line up exactly with the Sunspider improvements.

They should have moved to f/2.0.

Rubber or memory foam eartips fit in your ear better than hard plastic.

Some more tests are out, here's the iPhone 4S, 5, and GSIII in GLBenchmark 2.5

Just for fun, here's the 4S, 5, and GSIII in Glbenchmark 2.5

For one, I did say " which for now makes it the fastest phone at that test shipping now", did I not? "At that test" being the key. Nowhere did I say it's the best phone ever or it beats the GSIII in every metric, like your entire post seems to think I said.

Benchmarks plox. I havn't seen one of GLbenchmark yet.

Yeah I've seen that that happen a bunch of times, sometimes the button becomes completely unusable.

The button thing is good news, I've seen a few iDevice home buttons become non-functional pretty fast.

What worries me is that we already know some games will require the tablet controller, some games will require the Wii Remote Plus (Nintendoland) which already isn't bundled, and the Pro controller has a slightly different configuration than the tablet controller so it may not always be compatible, or it may have some…

I hope someone like Chipworks x-rays the SoC soon.

Actually it is based off blu ray. Look at the Wii, it used DVDs for games but it didn't have DVD playback because they would have to pay licencing, this is the same thing. It's 25GB disks and 22MB/s read spead point to single layer blu ray at 5x speed.

Yeah, the Wii U has a MAX power draw of 75w, add in power supply inefficiency, the GPU, and everything else, the processor probably has (extremely optimistically) 35w of power to work with. Power7 is notorious for gobbling lots of power, so whatever is in the Wii U is obviously a very, very cut down version of it.

This is aggravatingly un-technical. I know people repeat "graphics aren't everything" like gospel, but they do add longevity, look at the Wii.

It does matter, because I wouldn't want it to run out of steam early again like the Wii.

The "hard drive" is actually flash memory, so it is no doubt soldered right on to the motherboard, no replacing that.

The two things that irked me were the green button resize animation - I could count about five frames individually on the rMBP, and same with the calender flip animation. Are those gone now?

About freaking time, this is why I've clung to my iPod Classic so long. But they'll probably charge up the bum for that capacity.