Ah, intellectual property infringement a go go. If China ever actually pays attention to copyright laws these guys are going to be hammered.

Number 3 will be a 17"macbook pro, one more thing will be a new mac mini with built in TV recording, why else would you put 500GB drives in there

The truth is that everyone in this thread is correct; intangible property can be stolen but that copyright infringement is not stealing. Take a simple example; when you have a bank account you do not actually own the money you pay in, you hold a debt or right of action against the bank (so called because your rights concerning it can only be enforced through legal action unlike tangible property rights which can be enforced through possession) for the sum you have paid in. Now if I am manager of a company and I take money from the company's bank account and put it in my own without authorization then I have almost certainly stolen from the company, but the only piece of property that I have dealt with is the company's intangible property right against the bank. It's stealing because you have taken something that is not yours and dealt with it in a way that an owner can, the company cannot enforce the original debt it had with the bank anymore because you have reduced it by the amount that you have taken. Therefore you have taken the company's right of action away from it and you could be charged with theft.

The difference with copyright infringement and particularly infringement on the internet is that when you copy a song to download it you don't deprive the copyright owner of any property that they own. You haven't taken anything physical because, even if you view the arrangements of bits on a hard drive platter as tangible property, you make a copy of those bits when you download the song. You certainly haven't deprived the copyright owner of their property, a copyright is a series of exclusive rights concerning certain creative works, if someone who copied a song deprived the owner of those rights then this whole debate wouldn't even happen.

So in legalese the term 'copyright theft' or 'stealing songs' is a nonsense, it's the equivalent of saying that someone 'ate happiness' or 'threw sadness',

As far as I can see the symbol in the mobile computer video is exactly the same as in the second video, it's not greyed out at all. This engadget article is BS and they need to either post a clarification or a retraction.

THERE IS a wifi icon on the blackberry in the mobile computer test. It's engadget that's messing up here, you can clearly see it before the web browser starts is loaded. I can only assume that as it's a UK model in the mobile computer test it's a different UI

Shame on Engadget, once again the anti-iphone bias strikes.

I'm having no problems in the UK, have never had a missed call and very rarely get a 'sever not responding' message. I think the problem is more to do with AT&T than something wrong with the hardware. This is still Apple's problem of course but it's not quite as bad as some here are implying.

On a side note, my God has engadget got biased against Apple recently. I know it's the 'trendy geek' thing to do to bash them these days but please, give it a rest.

People, really, really need to do some reading and learn how patents work. 'Prior art' does not mean 'anything which is vaguely related to the same concept' such as a signal bar which was laughably pointed out above or no-one would ever be able to patent anything, which is quite clearly not the intent of the patent system.

You can't seriously compare a signal strength indicator and a program that says go x ----> that way to get stronger signal as the same thing. The innovation from one to the other is clear.

This whole story is rather appropriately a reenactment of the advert. PC nutcases are spitting blood and calling PC world useless etc. I own a macbook and I couldn't care less.

I want in

Vista doesn't work with half the things it's meant to work with. For example printers. My roomate's computer refuses to work half the time and the problem appears to just be on word. Another friend's laptop running Vista works perfectly all the time.

Leopard includes printer drivers in the system - no downloading, no fuss, no installers. You just plug the thing in and you're good to go.

Also I don't really understand how being quicker at releasing the first service pack to your new operating system makes a company worse at support.