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you are crazed Beeblebrox, Apple is very concerned about obsolescence, they want the products to seem obsolete as soon as possible. The newest thing is ALWAYS the ONLY thing!

I'm not trying to argue that the level of ripped-offed-ness, looking at that thing, well keep trying fellas! Still, there is every chance, in fact I'd say it was certain, that HP is trying to capture a bit of the All in one market. Go Hp, there isn't anything wrong with that, it isn't like the emachine model that basically copied the iMac. HP likely thinks (rightly) that there is a segment of the market that wants less cable clutter, wants a nifty home computer in an small package etc. In that sense, they are clearly attempting to compete with Apple. I find it difficult to think of it as a rip off.. Different solutions for the same market. While it is easy to think that you don't aim low when you have triple the share of the Mac, I suspect that is fallacious. GM doesn't ignore, say, the offerings of Volvo just because they kick Volvo's ass in market share. Wal Mart doesn't ignore Dollar General general just because they are much bigger. Hell no, big companies are aware of what the competition is doing and they are more than happy to provide an alternative. I'm not saying what HP is doing is wrong, I think that happens to be a pretty decent machine and I'm plaeaed to know that the all in one market once left for dead is slowly coming back around. I'd think it would be a bigger mistake by HP not to offer something that didn't fill the niche.

Bad Beaver is correct, the 1024X768 resolution didn't show up until Apple introduced the "icebook." The fruity color iBooks all had the 800X600 display.

Of course I read eveyone's comments LMW, they get get mailed to me. The reaason I don't comment more on comments is because they are usually good points and add something to the discussion. I don't want to argue with people who were kind enough to read my article, and I've usually said about all I can say in the column. I love the comments. As for me being J Dvoraks illegitimate love child, I am adopted so I guess it is a possibility. On the other hand it is hard to imagine how a human could spring from a carnal event betwixt John and his beloved command line IBM PCs (John thought the mouse would never catch on) If Apple adopts Windows as their OS, I'll adopt linux or plain Windows as my OS.

I see this is an issue I will probably have to revisit. Luckily enough I am trained in the use regression and plenty of other statistical methods. The trick will be to keep it interesting for people not into stats and math. The other trick is getting it done before April 13th.

Hi Chris, Got no idea what a skippy is so I couldn't really say if I am one or not. I just picked Yahoo Serious because I was tired of making fun of Pauly Shore.

Thanks for the compliment JR, hey I've moved all the way up to idiot! On the Mac DVD drive thing, well Steve Jobs called it a mistake. I suppose I'll stick with his opinion on that one... As for 256MB being enough, well most folks would disagree. Here's some anectdotal evidence for ya: I only recently upgraded my iBook from 256 to 768 and rather than going into a long list of pageout counts and such I've got to say it runs much better. My other computers (G4 tower and g5 tower) all have a gig+ and, honestly, II can't tell much difference between a gig and and a gig and a half (well I can't tell any difference). Also note that Garageband (which comes with your Mac) has a recommendation of 512MB as does iDVD. iMovie HD requires 512MB to even use the HD functionality.

Macs are much safer than Windows due to the architecture of the OS. On the other hand no operating system is bulletproof so there will always be an exploit. In the end the biggest security hole for macs is the guy behind the keyboard who cleverly uses "passw0rd" as his system admin password.