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the 3G icon is now blue and switches faster from 3G spots to Edge and viceversa.
The battery for this same time of day seems holding on quite well.
It took a minute to 'reactivate' after install.
No cut and paste, though I think might be easy to implement if Apple just place a scissor icon next to the switch world icon for keyboard language and select and release.
Please add 120GB or 180GB. The 64SSD although snappy is too scant. It could be a primary PC for some if so.
These Apple marketing guys are good. Supposedly today is also the big day for Lenovo's ThinkPad X300 aka the MBA killer. So, What if the MacBook Pro gives you 13" or 15" of thin, drive, ports+connectivity glory? Wouldn't that steal the show today with not one, but two or three of those laptops? Must admit, nobody puts a show like Apple.
The MBA is more of an statement to a lesser physical media world covered with Wi-Fi. I carry a MBP 15" mostly to make presentations, email and docs and work with that. It is too much for my needs. I would take a MBA because that is my specific need. From the specs of the X300 however, it could replace any other notebook in any range from ultraportable to mainstream with not much further thought. It is an easier sell. So I would argue the Lenovo is more of a VAIO SZ and Dell XPS killer.
It does come with either a 64 solid state drive or 120 GB Hard Drive.
Three smartphone categories now: 1. Connected Multimedia Devices (iPhone) 2. Connected Email Devices (BlackBerry) 3. Connected Global Positioning Devices (Nuviphone). So far a ride today for Apple, the stock will get hammered again tomorrow.
If we were in a recession and discretionary purchases were down, why this has been a record quarter, ever? What has changed from November to January? Is inflation up? No. Is consumer confidence index (the single economic measure that we would need to be looking at here) down? No. Are AAPL fundamentals bleak? No. Is the future forecast of the company conservative? Yes. It should be. That always has an impact on stock because some translate conservative as bad forecast.
I think is the unloading of a lot of folks that shorted the stock the days before the announcements, and haven't realized the news. Also it is something of a trend: With the exception of the 2007 iPhone announcement it has become almost a given rule on AAPL to be down almost 9% post-January. There is just too much hype on this stock.
Odd, shares closed down -$5.72 today and about $155.74 still a steal from the target $215 for the year. I believe it will take the market 48 hours to digest the financials, but despite the recession woes, I don't think there is any other way for AAPL but to go up.
Let me get this right:

a. You steal someone else's intellectual property.
b. You are rich beyond capacity because of that, and marry your PR agent, who is not hot.
c. Having created a profitable monopoly, decide to fail in every new venture outside of what you stole.

So everyone wants to be this guy. Green Day is right.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I commonly need to boot a system from an external disc and take a snapshot of the host system. I also then need to burn a copy of the image to a DVD. While I can do it with two separate external devices, and two power supplies, and two I/O cables, it'd be nice to find a small dual-drive enclosure. It would need to have USB, eSATA, and FireWire. Either slim-line or half-height bay for the optical burner would be fine, and space for either a 2.5- or 3.5-inch hard disc. Any ideas?"
 

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