Good... good...

"Granted, the September launch dates keep them from being of any real value during the earlier parts of next semester, but be sure and click through to take a look at the rest of the family."

This is for the EU market, no? In most European universities (or at least France and the UK, as far as I know), the semester begins early October, so these are just in time.

@Michael
Man, you can just SMELL the astroturf, can't ya...

I have a friend who WANTS to own one, but technically, none. A lot of them are planning on getting a PS3, though.

willyjsimmons >> You, sir, are a freaking idiot.
First, Bren is just really bad at sarcasm, cut this 'Silver' guy some slack.
Second, how the hell does anything here relate to vaporware?
Thirdly, how is the video iPod, or any apple product, vaporware? Vaporware is when a company advertises a product, or sends out teasers or press releases, then never releases it or significantly changes the key features. Apple always releases their products the day they announce them, or at least offer pre-orders and ship them a few weeks later. Anything related to the new iPod video is speculation and fan-made mockups.

So that's three points of argumentation on which you proved you were a stuttering imbecile. If I was 12, I'd say PWNED. Fortunately enough, I'm quite unlike you, and will settle for a kind recommendation: stick to using the internet for google.

MichaelLC >>
Tell me, would you spell it "eCock", "Ecock" or "e-cock"? I'm slightly confused with all this talk about capitalization mattering.

Is it just me, or does #19 sound like some astroturfing microsoft employee paid to post positive opinions about the thing here? Yup, probably is.

On a more important note, this thing is butt ugly, but if it truly does have good specs, then I can't wait till someone throws linux on it.

Who knows, this might actually also prompt apple to release something like this, but that looks good and actually works. We know they've got something of the sort in the works...

I saw something similar at a science fair in Lyon, France. A thin pane of glass-like crystal could be rendered opaque when electically stimulated.

So either this is just further research down that road, which would probably lead to interesting applications soon enough.

Or it's a completely different approach, which would be understandable as I believe the main problem that was pointed out to me with the previous system was the production cost (and overall fragility).

While there's no doubt this advert is quite arrogant, Apple are putting out some damn fine products, so I think they can afford to boast.

But more to the point, this is a rather flattering ad for intel, if anything. I mean, the only think it has a go at is intel's previous business partner. It's Apple's ad, not Intel's, and I think the business partners shouldn't be to surprised that apple would make an ad like this. I mean, they're obviously not going to go off saying "Here's the new Mac. We put an intel chip in it, now it's just like every other damn computer out there."

For humour's sake, intel should produce a similar advert with footage of a mac being assembled and the following narrative:

"The mac computer.
For years it's been trapped with a PPC,
Holding it in a dull white boxes,
Dutifully performing dull little tasks,
When it could have been doing so much more...

Starting today, the Mac computer will be set free
And get to live life, with an Intel Chip inside it.

Imagine the possibilities."

I think that would be fair.

... but air conditioning is so horribly unhealthy and polluting. Ready for it or not, you're probably going to have to learn how to live without it one day.

Easy solution though: just build houses like in europe, where the walls have a bit of thickness and insulation, for a change.