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"9. IE 7 (look everybody, it has this new feature called TABS, we think it will be big!) Taking suck to the next level 6. A Linux distro designed for “normal people” (ha ha ha ha ha ha, keep dreaming) 7. 20 year old company motto of “Ship it now, patch it for the next 6 years” no longer seems to work 5. Programmers confused about which security holes to leave in so that Microsoft can effectively sell “anti-virus” software to hordes of morons" hahaha... gold!

So maybe that single processor G5 they discontinued? :) Maybe drop that in a Quicksilver style case. Something between a Mac Mini and a PowerMac G5 can also be easily found second hand by way of a used dual G4 tower. I know that's not exactly what you meant.

James, that'd be great. Post up yo! :p

I've actually switched back to Panther and will remain there until 10.4.3. But I miss Dashboard by far the most. I used it regularly for the weather, calculator and quite a few excellent 3rd party widgets. Spotlight I can totally live without. I actually dislike the way it searches and prefer the Panther way. Automater, I haven't found or heard of anything about it I really need. RSS is Safari crashes a stupid amount still. NetNewsWire is better. I like that Disk Utility is more powerful in Tiger. That's a significant bit that wasn't mentioned.

Uh, yeah, an iPod with no headphones port would be just about useless. Apparently it's on the bottom to be worn around the neck with a lanyard.

This whole article assumes that every Mac mini must be equipped with an Apple monitor. When in fact, Apple has almost (wisely) encouraged the use of 3rd party monitors which obviously can be purchased for less or are already in new users' possession. The objective is to get fed up Windows users to switch. Mac mini is the bait for future upgrades to an iMac etc. If a user is switching to Apple with no other computer equipment, they'd likely be better of with purchasing an eMac or iMac.

I agree about the car thing. My comment too. For someone entering a car for the first time, I'd say it's far more intimidating that using a computer. Ask your friends who drive automatic if they use anything other than Park, Reverse and Drive... maybe Neutral if they go through carwashes. Typically there are 2 other 'gears' that most don't even know the function of.

I'm a happy .Mac customer. And if you don't find bookmarks being sync's useful you must have missed the point on this feature. I absolutely love having all my bookmarks sync'd between work and home. And with the advent of Tiger, I can now sync my RSS feeds like Applematters across multiple machines. Or, if I find an interesting article at work and don't have time to read it, I can just bookmark, sync and then read it at home or vice versa. If you work from home, it might not be so great a feature, but even then there can be advantages (like easily finding links to show people away from your computer). Or what about if you want to reinstall your system for some reason? I do this often out of hobby and it's great being able to simply turn on .Mac and there's a bunch of my essential stuff. A few less things to worry about in reinstalling. So for me, there are 5 features I use on a daily basis, equating to $20 each. That's worth it.