I'm a high school teacher; even my students are already raving about the "new Mac." I'm sitting in front of them right now with my overpowered Toshiba Portege R500-S5004 laptop: 1.72 pounds, fully featured, robust, powerful, and slides into a 2" zipper binder alongside all my papers every day.

And this Toshiba is enormous compared to my previous laptop, the Sharp Actius PC-MM20 (which is still renowned for its tiny size), though it weighs a bit less.

I have to explain to these kids that the "new Mac" laptop sacrifices through all aspects of its feature set to attain that size.

Consumer culture is starting to scare me, big time.

And the fact that people never call Jobs out for misleading them is just vile.

The Law of House applies here, without question: "Everybody lies."

I will also take physics any time. The only way you could possibly measure 485% efficiency is if your software has a decimal point in the wrong place somewhere and your brain has a similar one allowing you to believe your equipment.

What if their device is "sucking" energy out of some orthogonal dimensions that we normally cannot access? Hah; perhaps it's killing people on parallel Earth by causing their nuclear power plants to melt down. The shame of it all is that even the lay community should know better than to just 'believe it when they see it.'

I wholeheartedly disagree; the M series are a good keyboard, but Fujitsu and IBM have old-style click keyboards (the Fujitsu style has vertical concavity that some people love) with excellent feedback and key pressure, while the overall most tangibly perfect keyboard would be the RT8256C+ / CW+ that is (as of 2002) no longer being made by NMB. They are still available on eBay and other random sales sites, and they boast solid metal-frame construction, adjustable key pressure and key timing (for each individual key) as well as pop-off key surfaces which can be cleaned simply by dunking them in a bowl of warm soapy water. If you really want a keyboard that'll last and look clean for more than a decade, you should seek out one of these NMB keyboards. Simple design and flawless performance.