@loco ...exactly how is this card crippled? Your accusatory statements about Mac users settling for anything Apple even if crippled is inflammatory. Sometimes the smaller player in the market has fewer options, fact of life you deal with. What do you care besides taking a shot?
Everyone knows the card selection for the one box that apple sells that has slots for removable cards is severly limited because of the way they constructed the architecture, one the other hand there is no 'driver hell' under OS X, etc. ...and now there is one more video card choice. That is the news for a few folks who actually use this machine.
Right now - are you even doing anything creative with your setup (whatever it is) ... define crippled - what exactly are you doing with a 1.5 Gb / 76 Gb throughput graf/x card ...besides gaming? Unless you are running SolidWorks or Pro/e or something really pushing some triangles around ...what in the hell are doing with a equivalent $1800 PC card?

@GeekPI - this card is being announced today and is not available until next month - just like the PR and the article above states. So this card was never part of the system configuration options. Your statement - not available "anymore" makes no sense. Give it a month.

I don't care if you run OS X on your electric toothbrush, junior. No Apple fan here. Maybe I picked the wrong set of parameters (still you are mistaken re: core temps have nothing to do with mechanical heatsinks - I was referring to the OS's capacity for turning on/off fans, monitoring systems, etc.)

The point is *optimization* of the hardware-software experience for users who want to do some work/have fun/create, etc. and not be constantly wasting time with their rig. Some people like tweaking/hacking, great - but this is making so any fool can run OS X on whatever ...it becomes a problem of the Brand. ...public perception of what the OS X experience & what exactly supports the Apple Brand. Having the OS, the UI run on crap or have unintended quirks might lead brand perception astray. And hardware is a primary source of revenue & margin for Apple to continue innovating ahead of the pack. If this thing became more than a tinker toy for maker faire geeks, then if I were Apple I would see it as a problem, don't you.?

On your metrosexual netbook or whatever, why wouldn't you run Ubuntu or FreeBSD? If you want a mac, get a mac, ..comes with built-in Genius bar help, warranty, guides the whole bit. But if this is just a science experiment for geeks who like to play around with different setups - why commercialize the gizmo and seemingly create it for the masses?

Such a poor idea. the whole point of the Apple product experience is that it works together, font rendering matches display capability, drivers behave nicely, core temps, aspect ratios... on and on. Part of the esence of the whole Mac "simplicity" thing is users (especially new users) don't have to mess with admin/IT-type issues

This is like taking an Aston Martin interior and shoveling it into a Chinese tractor.

I hope they get crushed by Apple.

what a sensitive dweeb. no skilz, copy, paste.

I guess the thing to do as a gadget blog poster is 'to hate' if you are unsure / do not understand / concept is over your beerbonged IQ ...so these are ugly because of some fuzzy picture. I am getting tired of gizmo babys on their blogs ragging if the product doesn't exactly match their narrow range of taste. And exactly what kind of taste does some punk have anyway? ...like this noob went to RISD or The Standford D-School or even can tell the difference between a Lovegrove or a lapdance. Engadget authors would be better off to lay out the goods they just lift from somewhere else anyway, reduce the lame attempts at humor and give the gadget facts - the specs, the down-low on the high-end schiznit. We the early-adopter geeked-out masses will decide what's ugly or not. It's great there's a variety in design styles.. it would be a boring world if *everything* was soft aluminum and white plastic. Besides Moto usually has great build quality so these appear to have an element of longevity about them... it's not always about public-fapping showing how much you dropped on some gear.

It's going to ship with the mobile version of Duke Nukem Forever...

Thanks for all the coverage - I work for a competing ODM - give me the sweet baby jee-Phone so I can help spur even more competition..

ODM (original device manufacturuer's) get test sims and a certain number of licenses to do what they need to build the phone and test it on a network before it's approved/made publically available. The comments here are just asinine - coming from people who are guessing, trolling, flamebaiting. I work for a device maker in Silicon Valley and I have used all sort of things the public will never see with test sims as well as my own T-Mob and Cingular cards. It may be illegal for *you* to build something and tap into a spectrum in some fashion, but not for companies with massive licenses and relationships with the FCC, standards bodies, etc. etc. In fact, no lie, I saw an Apple SVP in Palo Alto taking a call on an iPhone about a week ago. Big deal. Of course they are going to field test it while it's going throught the rubber-stamping process.

The attacks on "Apple fanbois" are just hilarious, little dweebs with their creaking gaming platforms -downloading driver and security updates every few minutes. Updating the 35 million lines of code which dates from the Jurassic Period. The more you punks attack people who love their user experience with Apple products, the more you validate their obvious superiority. It's a total trailer-trash, punk*ss attitude you all have ...like cheap, low-life envy of somebody else's stuff. Kids. "Look Jimmy has a new bike - I hate him."

Vista is a 5 year-old joke. Aero is a glossed-over afterthought - a reaction to Aqua in the middle of a completely hosed development effort. Good luck in your careers after wasting some much time on trivial MS nonsense. "The world needs ditch diggers too..."

xxdumbass -- what's 'better' than cingular in us? the other 3 blow chunks ..i.e. more than cingular blows chunks.

600 perfect for a new device, brings it down to palm prices w/a contract + seeing how it merges functionality, the price is worth it. I will sell my pda, my phone & my cheesehole camera on eBay & voila.
plenty of expansion room - add 3G, add mem, more mpixels to cam, etc. down the road.
they need to have a product life cycle.

ms fanbois - go back to yer windoze mobile start menu/laundry list of frozen apps.