I have to hand it to Apple, they've done a magnificent job on this new batch of laptops, from what I've seen and read. Plus, with OS X, I think they're really going to start drawing new users. I really wish someone would put together a laptop hardware package like Apple does. They include so many leading edge technologies that you'd never be able to fit onto many PC laptops, since you have only one or two PCMCIA slots. For example, they have gigabit ethernet, bluetooth, 802.11g, firewire, dvd burner. Most PC laptops I've seen have 10/100 ethernet, *maybe* 802.11b, USB 1.1, and maybe a DVD-ROM.
Oh yeah, and that illuminating keyboard looks hella-sweet.
What they don't say, however, is that for the even the examples they gave in the promotional video I watched, is that for the applications they were demonstrating, there's maybe one or two permutations of hardware and software that will give the desired result. Mac OS X/Jaguar is nicer than 9.x, but it's still no walk in the park. Like I said earlier, I want the hardware configuration, not the OS.
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