You incorrectly said that the G4 powerbooks were much higher resolution than the new Macbook Pro.

According to the Apple website, the 15-inch G4 Powerbook has a 1440 x 960 resolution while teh 15-inch Macbook Pro has a 1440 x 900 resolution.

You made it sound like a huge deal when the difference is in fact only 60 vertical pixels. Also, the 17-inch iMac also has a 1440 x 900 resolution.

Where's iPhoto update, wait for January and Macworld San Francisco for iLife '06. Honestly, I think the only reason iTunes was bumped up to 6 is to be inline with the other iLife apps when iLife '06 rolls out at Macworld.

Cecil, Your proposal that you should get the future tech. versions of songs you've already bought doesn't make sense because then no company would invest in new technology. The cost for research and development of those future technologies, to encode them and distribute them would be eaten by the record companies since you will not pay a nickel towards recouping those costs. For the record companies, their response would be: "Let them buy 8-tracks."

Oh great. Rothman screws up "Fantastic Four" with a handful of television actors, an too-low budget, and the director of "Taxi", gives "X-Men" to Brett Ratner, and ooks like he'll be giving more work to that hack Paul W.S. (What Script) Anderson.

Quoted from MDN: "I'm a computer consultant. A real consultant, not like the Thurrot kind. In addition, I'm a photographer. I own high end Canon equipment. EOS 1D Mark II, and an EOS 1Ds Mark II. You never, ever, ever edit the original RAW image. DUH! Think of RAW as a digital negative. A RAW file is a fundamentally a record of the raw sensor data from the camera along with additional metadata supplied by the camera (name of the photographer, date, shutter speed, aperture, white balance, etc.) You don't edit this file. You keep this file untouched. RAW files are powerful because you can make adjustments based on the raw sensor data. If your shot was a little under exposed, you can adjust exposure. You can adjust white balance. You can adjust black levels, color temperature, etc. You can do all this, and afterwards your adjusted image is converted to something else and your RAW image REMAINS untouched. Apple did not "go it's own way like Adobe," either. Camera manufactures REFUSE to settle on a single RAW format. Each time Canon or Nikon comes out with a new camera, there's another new RAW format. Then EVERYONE, not just Apple and Adobe has to scramble to update their software to deal with the new RAW format. Adobe is trying like crazy to create a single RAW format that everyone uses, but the Camera vendords have so far decided to thwart these efforts. NIKON has even created a new RAW format that can only be edited by NIKON's software. No one knows what Nikons goal is except to force people to have to buy their software. Blaming Apple for this is nuts. In fact as a photographer, I feel that Apple has done a splended job of building RAW support into the OS and making it almost invisible. I had no idea Tiger was going to natively support RAW images. It wasn't until after upgrading to Tiger that I noticed my RAW images had visible icons. I double-clicked on one and was blown away when Preview was able to open it, REALLY FAST, and let me see inside. Now, when I dump a bunch of RAW images down from the camera into a folder on OS X, I can use Preview to browse them, before even going into Photoshop. In fact THE FREAKING FINDER allows me to browse them! As far as iPhoto, 99% of Photographers won't shoot in RAW anyway. Most low end digital cameras don't provide RAW image formats. Most digital photographers want to snap some pics, plug the camera in, and e-mail those pics to family and friends. Some want to put them on websites. Even pros don't automatically generate prints from everything they shoot. I often e-mail a client selections back within hours of taking photographs and iPhoto handles this beautifully. iPhoto imports all of my RAW images and places them nice and safe in a folder. I like this. I can go in and back them up, which I do immediately. When I open one or more images in iPhoto I can have them sent to the client in e-mail right then and there. It takes minutes to do what used to take me an hour or more. I'd have to open the Adobe Photoshop Browser. I'd have to select the RAW images I want, convert them down to JPEGs, reduce the image sizes, then e-mail them. A much slower process even when automated. On this one, as usual Thurrott is way out of his league."