Relatively small investment for a potentially large new buying population.

That's what I was thinking, no amount of money, but some crazy supernatural powers to be able to fix all that at a whim might do it.

Hope it has a quad core like the bigger ones, Intel has an Ivy Bridge quad in the same TDP as the chip in the 13" pro.

It would be pretty funny if their TVs were Samsung panels as well.

Exactly, a few people talked about Apple making a fabrication plant for themselves, but even for them that's an enormous undertaking. Plus those plants either need tremendously expensive upgrades each new process shrink, or you need to build a new one. I think they'll stick to someone else making their chips.

Apple has pulled surprises before,but a fabrication plant is an enormous undertaking even for them.

Who else can manufacture the number of chips they need? I thought TSMC was at near 100% capacity, and Global Foundaries still has issues to work out.

I think the war on drugs is stupid, but isn't this misleading? If the percentage stays the same that means the number of drug users would have risen as the population grew a lot in 40 years.

Apple can't make an x86 CPU though, an ARM based Macbook Air would lose compatibility with most programs. They've changed instruction sets before, sure, but that was to an instruction set the rest of the computer world was already using.

No idea what that meant

People who don't want a data plan (me, although I have a smartphone with data turned off), parents buying a gadget for their kids who don't want them to have a smartphone, etc. For the iPhone market, yeah, it would be redundant, but personal media players will have a place for a while so long as smartphones aren't…

Yeah, I've lost count of how many I've seen fail. What a letdown, the newer design is probably a fraction of a penny more.

Bleh, rubber membrane home button. I thought they would move everything to the new metal backed home button of the 5, but they skimped out. The home button is the thing I see fail most often.

During the day I have it set to normal, as you'd be seeing that kind of bright light if you were outside too.

You could dim the lights when it gets close to dark in conjunction with Flux. I have a lamp with a warmer colour temperature that I use closer to bedtime rather than the white overhead lights.

Or use the free program flux to make your screen mimic the colour temperature outdoors would be at the time of day.

I think most people would like it to have a bit more heft.

Yeah, it seems pretty inevitable, the front of the iPod classic, any aluminum iPod, the Macbook Pros, they all can be dented and scratched just as easily, it's just a property of aluminum. So I wonder if they couldn't have used steel on the back with the same matte finish.

That's the problem with being a tech enthusiast, isn't it. There's always something better around the corner.

Hmm, I guess I can see some appeal, plugging in a mouse and keyboard would make the tablet somewhat capable of playing real PC games. But then you're already at the weight of an ultrabook, and still with less performance. Trading off battery life for better performance may be worth it for some though.