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Hi all, Thank you for pointing these errors out. I know how frustrating this kind of thing can be for readers, and you have my sincere apologies for not proofreading this article before posting it. I am having childcare issues that have prevented me from doing my job consistently over the past week. I have gone through and proofed the article and fixed these problems. Better late than never, but again, sorry for having to make you work so hard to get at Bakari's meaning. Cheers.

Ok, ok you've all had fun critiquing the site's grammar, and I have to agree. I'm the new editor, and I've been brought in to turn the site's articles into better English. One of my tasks will be going through all of the history articles and proofreading them and fact checking them. But seriously, if any of you know something is off timewise, let me know. Thanks for the feedback. Meiera

First off, Chris, great piece...here are my thoughts. I am a diehard Safari user. I rarely, if ever, notice Beachballs, and I use Safari on multiple machines. I also very very rarely come across a site that doesn't work in Safari and when I do Camino is there for me. I haven't checked out FireFox 3 in depth but I've always felt like FireFox isn't a Mac program. When I have to use another browser I typically go to Camino, which at least feels like a Mac application. The main reason I prefer Safari, however, is the main reason I prefer Macs. It is minimal, fast, and, at least for me stable.

Great thoughts everyone, here is what I think. Make the Apple TV free with a movie subscription contract (kind of like the cellphone market model). So, I can get an Apple TV if I pay 20 bucks a month, which gives me access to, say 5 movie rentals. In addition the AppleTV needs a DVR capability, I have too many boxes already!

Just a clarification...this piece was originally attributed to Hadley Stern, Aayush Arya was the author. thanks!

First of all welcome back, Chris! All you readers may not know this but Chris just finished writing a book for O'Reilly, Apple Hacks, which you are hereby ordered to buy now, enjoy and rate appropriately on Amazon, Book here. Now onto the issue. Regardless of the busy savvy of making a move I too would like to see a so-called sub-Mac-Pro. I want a machine that I can open up, add some hard-drives too and tinker with. But I do think Apple is not going to create this type of machine. I think Steve's view is either you are a Pro who needs the fastest hard drive connections, video cards, expandability, etc or you are a just a consumer user who needs something that works. The notion of a prosumer machine is interesting but my guess is Apple doesn't care to understand that market. In the spirit of Mac users who like to Hack it is getting tougher and tougher these days. The Mac Pros are just too expensive and opening up a Mac mini requires a freakin' putty knife!

Hah, no April fool joke everyone....thanks for the nice feedback!

Wolp and others, its fine to disagree but lets keep any site attacks or personal attacks out of it....it gets old real quick. The ironic thing is I just returned on the Red Eye from San Francisco where in between trying to sleep, and watching my first iTunes rental on my iPhone (which worked great btw) I started writing a piece about how great the Air is. That piece will appear soon. I truly believe the Macbook Air has to be seen, and picked up, to be appreciated. As for your points about price, Tanner, it costs more to make a product that is more compact. The technology innovation required to pack that much power into such a light-weight package is not easy, and once you pick up an Air you'll appreciate it more. I do agree that 80GBS is a little slim, and I was surprised to see no option to upgrade to a 160GB drive (maybe it's too thick?). But I think the real reason is that this machine is supposed to be someone's alternate machine, not their dedicated machine. To be used when traveling. That said I could easily survive with an Air as a dedicated machine. 80GBS is fine, the processor rocks (which is where people should be concerned if there was a compromise) and it is super-light and beautiful.