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You can take it to the Apple Store and have the battery replaced. It's $129, the same price as any other notebook battery at the Apple Store.

I don't think Apple is going to drop the high capacity iPods any time soon as there are plenty of people who have massive libraries of audio or video that want to carry it all with them. As for adding multitouch to the rest of the line: how would one differentiate? The iPod Touch Nano, iPod Touch Classic? Seems like it would add confusion, whereas now each iPod is easily identifiable just by looking at it. A Nano-sized touchscreen seems, to me, to be a little ridiculous. It would make video a little better on the Nano, but people complain enough already about the size of the interface objects on the iPhone and Touch, on the Nano it wouldn't really add anything. I think we'll see the flash-based models grow in capacity as the costs come down, and eventually the HD-based iPods will go away and be replaced with flash, but I think Apple will keep the lineup essentially as it is now with easily differentiated models, just like with their computers.

This was the first computer I personally ever owned, it was called the e0ne. It worked well enough for a highschool freshman in 99, but it eventually crapped out ("No operating system found. Please restart and try again.") and when I emailed eMachines about replacing the hard drive their reply was essentially "Do not attempt to disassemble, repair, or upgrade the e0ne. Electrical shock or death may result." I replaced it with a Compaq Presario, which served me well for about 3 years, and after that the PowerBook I'm now typing on (time for an upgrade again...)

Of course I could just wait until my current contract expires. And as the iPhone has the standard iPod connector on the bottom, my current chargers and USB cables might work. With Wi-Fi, the only way I'd buy a data plan is if it's required.

Both VMWare and SWSoft (maker of Parallels) have stated that the next iterations of their respective products will allow OS X to be installed on non-Apple hardware.

There would have to be some hotkey or active corner of the touchscreen to switch between a keyboard (of any flavor, be it QWERTY, foreign language, FinalCut, or Photoshop) and the touchpad mouse pointer interface. Otherwise you'd try to scroll or highlight something and end up with a string of gibberish or something.

It's 8th in the MP3 player section, behind 6 iPods (3 models, but the different colored Nano's are different products), but it's beating out the green, silver, and blue Nanos; the white 5.5gen iPod; as well as the 1st gen Nanos and original iPod videos. I guess it's doing all right...

The MacBook Pro was also cheaper at the time it was released, although I doubt this is the case right now. And you're right, Beeblebrox. Comparing two pro-level systems doesn't matter much to a lot of people. However the reason articles like this keep appearing is because people continue to argue that Macs are unjustifiably more expensive than PCs. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't, but it's your money to do with as you please.