Dude, Ryan, we get it. She's your girlfriend. What are you trying to prove?

I hope this is a system that only plays Michael Douglas movies.

I agree with Aaron -- the battery is a problem. A couple of hours of field recording, and then you have a paperweight.

The other problem is likely to be noisy mic preamps. If they sold a MicroTrack that took 2 AAs and had quality mic pres, it would be a wonderful world.

I've been a Mac fan for almost 20 years, but sadly--and amazingly--this new Gateway actually has a cleaner design than the current iMac. Ouch.

"Apple bought the program after Macromedia's funding fell through, at the time more to prevent a competitor from releasing it than anything else -- so it was a lot less an attempt to beat down Avid than it was to fuck over Adobe"

Well, in the version I heard, Steve was furious with Avid, and bought FC with the intention to develop it into a pro-level app with better pricing. Taking down Premiere was only the prelude. But who knows, I wasn't in the room when Steve decided to buy FC...

"Sure, schools and smaller productions are using FCP in constantly increasing numbers, but so much of that is because it is just flat out cheaper and the performance is similar -- Avid is still Avid."

You're missing the point. No one makes money on high end niche pro products. You can only sell a few $100,000 editing solutions per year. But you can sell hundreds of thousands of $1,000 applications. Guess where the money is... Avid knew where they had to move -- the "prosumer market" has long been the largest and fastest growing segment in video. Well, FCP came along and absolutely DEMOLISHED Avid's hopes for that market.

So Steve was 100% successful in screwing over Avid on the desktop. Avid was so thoroughly defeated that they had to go searching for new markets -- audio, 3D, etc. They realized they didn't own video anymore.

This is all a bunch of posturing, but it shows you how much of an idiot Bruce Chizen is. The last man in the world you want to provoke is Steve Jobs.

Has anyone forgotten what happened when Avid dropped support for the Mac? Jobs went ballistic, bought Final Cut from Macromedia, proceeded to absolutely obliterate Avid's grip on the market, and pave the way for ProApps. Adobe should remember this well, because in the process, they lost millions in video product sales on the Mac, and even had to discontinue Premiere on the Mac for years.

Anyone who thinks Apple DOESN'T have a Photoshop replacement quietly in development has their head in the sand. Don't get me wrong -- Adobe is valuable to Apple. But if Bruce ever steps over the line, I guarantee you'll see Apple announce their Photoshop replacement the next week. That'll be the only warning, but it will be followed by the InDesign replacement, the Flash-like SVG authoring environment, etc.