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Can someone tell Engadget that the "Daily Roundup" is a stupid idea. I skip over it EVERY TIME.
Maybe there could be a button that turns the Daily Roundup off?
Downloading in Sydney Australia @ 4.4 MBytes/s, Hell Yeah!!
mate you have no idea what your talking about, Jesus, if you worked for me I'd demote you purely based on that post
I'm really not sure why everyone is hating on apple over this psystar issue.

Apple uses hardware sales to subsidise their OS development, the full cost of OS development is not included in the retail-off-the-shelf OSX box. The rest of the development cost is actually in the mac's people buy.
So when psystar takes OSX and puts it on a non-mac, they reap the benefits not from their own work but from customers of apple.

Apple is doing the right thing offering OSX very cheap because they know it is an upgrade, as everyone already paid for this OSX cost when they bought their mac. But if OSX is put on non-mac's, i.e. apple are forced to allow the sale, then apple may be forced to put the price up to recover the development cost. Then who would be whinging? Engadget commenters?

Now, the question is, why SHOULD they be forced to recover the full cost of the OS development by upping the price of the software. What is wrong with using one product's sales to support another's. I'm not sure why people hate apple over this..?

Is it just people crying about what they want, expecting to get it and whinging when they don't?
Psystar seems to be taking a big gamble, obviously so are it's investors, I'm just glad i'm not one of them.
This is news??
@ Flashpoint

I think you need to relax mate, sure macbook air's are not for the money conscious, that's well known.
Sure the sales guys will try and sell it, thats expected too.

The only unusual thing to note here is some moron who runs a schools IT purchasing having personal anger issues and taking it out on Apple who make genuinely good products.

If its not for you, no need to get upset about it, I'm sure the Air suits many people of which probably don't mix with you!
And: If a HSDPA version will also be delivered alongside a UMTS version. Perhaps the HSDPA version will come later/sooner ???
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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