Making a nifty web app just for my iphone.

Every New Day by Five Iron Frenzy

oh, Alex beat me to it. =p

A lot of semiconductor companies provide this type of service to their customers (granted that they order in large enough quantities). It's pretty much just a "place this stamp on the chip" instead of whatever you'd normally do. Sometimes it doesn't even cost any extra, so I don't think Apple went through much "trouble" to do this. I bet if you opened up various other devices, you'd find similar markings (such as Nintendo hand-helds, etc.)...

According to the MercuryNews article (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/14733041.htm), it leads me to believe this wasn't a very successful portion (if by successful you mean money-making):

"Intel's Xscale business, which includes applications processors for cell phones and chips for BlackBerrys, smart cell phones, handheld computers and portable media players. That business generated approximately $250 million in sales last year, according to sources who saw documents on the business.

Both the communications processor and applications processor businesses, which are being shopped as a single group, are losing money. Intel can get a tax write-off for selling the businesses."

Am I misunderstanding something? Was the Xscale group as a whole doing well and just the applications division within the Xscale group not doing well? The article is somewhat confusing in that regards.

"I already activated this copy of XP though... how does that whole business work?"

I'm assuming you meant you activated the copy on the Mac, then you wiped it out and want to reinstall/reactivate. In that case, you should be fine... Microsoft should be able to tell you're reinstalling onto the same machine and just let you activate again. I just did that same thing last night on my MacBook Pro.

Now if you meant you activated that copy on another machine and then want to activate it on your mac as well... well... can't help you there. ;)

Insane Nintendo fanboy community? Have you seen Apple's? They have fakes every other week.

You guys need to realize that previous Mac minis had a Radeon 9200 with 32MB of memory. That's a 2-3 year old video card with less memory than most 9200 cards had when they first came out.

I'd bet the GMA950 performs adequately enough, especially compared to what it replaced.

I have a Mac Mini that I have Ubuntu Linux on that is a pretty good utility box. I have it setup in ways that I found hard/costly/cumbersome to do with Mac OS X (particularly running headless and allowing multiple independent VNC sessions).

Besides that, I could see having Linux on an iMac useful for benchmarking purposes where you'd want to compare the iMac hardware with a PC and were trying to eliminate the OS from the equation.

And, some people just like playing with Linux, what's wrong with that? =)

Don't want to bring down the wrath of the fanboys, but I had this deep urge to sputter this out...

Looks a lot like a baby iBook. =)