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Boot Camp opens up a big can of worms on so many different levels. Will game makers still make games for Macs? Will some software makers just tell you to “put windows on your machine”? I’ve been so used to not having to worry about attacks, I don’t even know what Windows users have to deal with anymore. I’ve been so lucky to be in an all-Mac work community, and haven’t even had to touch a PC in years, bit it looks like Apple may be bringing Windows back into everyone’s home, even mine… Jim http://www.humanbeingcurious.com

CompUSA is closer to me than the Apple Store, and they have a very knowledgeable Apple person there most of the time, but there's something about going to an actual Apple store; it's like going on a pilgrimage or something to that effect. I usually pick the longer drive to the Apple store, just for the experience. Jim http://www.humanbeingcurious.com

Congratulations on yet another great discussion inspiring article Chris. The Mac Mini media center is in my opinion a significant new product release from Apple, as significant a new release as the iPod or the iTunes Music Store. Read where I think Apple is going with this here: http://humanbeingcurious.com/page15/page19/page19.html http://humanbeingcurious.com/page15/page20/page20.html Jim www.humanbeingcurious.com

Nice article, Chris. It seems that the biggest argument PC users have had in the past is that there's not enough software for the Mac, which is not the case anymore, and in many cases, as have been mentioned above, we have better and easier to use software. The only exception now being the AutoCAD users, of which I believe makes up only a small portion of PC users. It's time everyone else just stopped making up excuses and deal with reality... www.humanbeingcurious.com

I've compared it to Rapidweaver, and Rapidwaever comes out way ahead. RW makes it easy to create a clean looking website, and is open enough so the advanced user can change anything they want. You can add HTML in RW and you can go in and modify the page themes! I use Rapidweaver for my site, and the only limitations I ccan see are on my side, my lack of knowledge. I interviewed the Rapidweaver guys when I was at Macworld! If you want to see the interview, go to: www.humanbeingcurious.com

Think about this: When Apple introduced the Nano they used the graphic of a pants pocket. Nobody really thought about the small pocket as the focus of attention. Now for this event the graphic is something that looks like a stage curtain. Or does it look like the curtain they used to put over movie screens? My guess is for the latter. Downloadable movies are coming...

Apple has a long history of making things happen because they want them to happen. Think about it; where was firewire before Apple started putting it on all their machines? How many devices had bluetooth before Apple made it a standard option on all their computers? How many people carried around a digital music player before the iPod? I had one, a Rio I think, but it was a tinkerer's toy, and a pain to deal with, and only had 64Mb of memory. "Your laptop doesn't even have a CD burner?" "No, but look.......... It's titanium!!" Point being, if Apple does away with something, it will be for a reason. If they do away with ports, it will be because they have a wireless technology that makes ports obsolete. If they do away with optical drives, it will be because CD's and DVD's aren't good enough anymore. Apple got rid of disk drives and started making computers with only CD drives long ago, and everyone cringed. Anyone seen any kind of a disc lately? Apple will be able to make laptops smaller, and just as functional. These laptops may have some new technology in them that will take the rest of the world a few years to catch up with, but the world will catch up, and by then Apple will have made something else...