So....if your computer (running a VOIP application) already has a bluetooth radio in it, then this headset adds zero extra functionality over any other bluetooth headset?

"When playing, it is clearly evident that the music sounds significantly different than when played on an MP3 player, mainly because of the hissy backtrack and odd warbly noises on the Walkman"

Is it REALLY clearly evident? The vast majority of MP3s have hissy overtones when high frequencies (eg. cymbals) are reproduced, which is why I don't purchase tunes online unless I can aquire uncompressed or lossless forms.

Love the Porcupine Tree, btw. Best current band out of GB period!

"When playing, it is clearly evident that the music sounds significantly different than when played on an MP3 player, mainly because of the hissy backtrack and odd warbly noises on the Walkman"

Is it REALLY clearly evident? The vast majority of MP3s have hissy overtones when high frequencies (eg. cymbals) are reproduced, which is why I don't purchase tunes online unless I can aquire uncompressed or lossless forms.

I don't find the design to be extraordinary. The continual shrinking of ICs and hard drives (from magnetic platters to SSDD) explains the compact construction of this 17 inch MacBook rather than any design innovation.

Couple things: if the claim is that you can get 7-8 hours on this laptop, under what load? Surfing the web? Playing a game? Tracking some music? Or just leaving it sitting there (as I suspect)

The Battery could have been easily designed to be user replaceable, they didn't explicitly because they profit from battery replacements. Don't be fooled.
As Dell does successfully, they could ship a battery (or have you pick it up at the Apple store) to the end user to have him/her replace it. I'm assuming here that an average MAC users possess the electronics IQ to replace a battery.

You might not look "way cooler" but I would argue that you'll look like less of a douche.

A little bit of a scientific perspective.

But first: Dell's customer support has been superior to Apple's and I have owned, used, and operated both for years. There's just something about having the part or technician sent to you, freeing you to eat cheetos and do your thing. Some folks complain about Dell's slumdog tech reps being hard to understand. The two times I've called about something, I found them to be just as comprehensible as the Best Buy sales rep go on about the newest Mac laptop. Actually, more comprehensible.

Now about the glossy screen. I love them. Pros and cons to both. BTW, you can calibrate a glossy screen to fine tune color representation. If you don't know how to do this, get brand X laptop without glossy screen. When one sees a marketing pic of a laptop with a glossy screen, glare seems unnaturally irritating because a camera captures the reflecting light through one iris, one opening. The average user will take in the light information with, you guessed it, two eyes. Our brains have this neat way of filtering out over exposed areas on a particular eye and using the information from the other eye to compensate.

I think this Adamo with Windows 7 is going to beat the latest Crapbook hands down. But really, it's all user/platform preference.

Meh. As a long time professional musician. . . .to opine: Shure has multiple in ear monitors that dominate these in price ranges from significantly less to comparable. It is amusing the read the posts that a I-Pod, chock full of mp3s, justifies expensive botique-ee headphones at any rate. You clearly must not know what (even a high bit rate) MP3 compression does to a good digital recording of dynamic audio. And the cans we're discussing here are definiately going to make the glaring aural noise obvious enough for Hellen Keller to turn a deaf ear. The best ATRAAC or MP4 compression is ok, sigh ok, but you really need to keep your recordings lossless (FLAC anyone? :) ) if you're going to invest in quality headphones.

Michael Bay sucks? Interesting that Spielberg would support him. But then again, perhaps Spielberg sucks as well. Michael Bay has pushed fx integration into films in brilliant ways, and he can tell a story at that. Most people mistakingly believe the popular opinion that his movies are nothing more than fx driven spectacles-wrong. Until we've been responsible for a multi-million dollar budget and have a delivered a product that makes money as well as pushes a film's element's envelope artisitcally, I don't think we can criticize Bay.

Besides, as in all first movie franchises, TF had to introduce characters and build a believable reality, the second movie would have been free to spin a good yarn without the shackles of exposition.

Dell. 17 XVGA ultra sharp. 200 GB Sata (not sure of the spindle speed) NVIDIA 7900GS video chipset. 2 GB 667MHZ dual data rate RAM. Intel's t7400 dual core two brain, and wireless. 9 Cell power core. $1350. 2 years of next day service. Enough said. In my line of work (sound design and music comp) I have had great overall reliability and customer service from Dell. Can anyone recommend a high end (24 bit / 96 or 192 sampling frequency) A/D convertor (sound card) add on? I need to upgrade from my Event technologies card.

Ha ha. Do you actually believe that only IC based machines can be "hacked." A mechanical piece of hardware can be compromised just as easily.
New York's left leaning . . . Windows based OS . . .yuck yuck, computer based voting machines are the future, the populace will benefit if it needs to be educated. All technology introduced to mass society has a learning curve.