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...began when my (admittedly well-used) Dell Inspiron laptop began to die. To make a long story short, the battery, graphics adapter, and internal wireless card all started to bug out in rapid succession...
Fast-forward two years. In the span of time it took for my old Dell laptop to go from a shiny new object of love and affection to a broken-down piece of junk, my new MacBook has gone from a reluctant addition to my life to an essential part of my day. When I walk into my first lecture of the day, it takes me only a few seconds to pull my laptop out of my bag and simply flip it open, ready to go. For me, this is absolutely critical—10:07 am means...
...decade ago. So far, Amazon's Kindle has had a first-out-of-the-gate advantage over rival e-readers from Sony and Barnes & Noble. But industry experts believe the recent launch of Apple's highly anticipated iPad tablet, a device that offers Web-browsing, e-mail and other laptop functions in addition to an e-reader, could be the Kindle's biggest threat yet. Apple has already signed up five publishers to sell e-books for its iPad. "There's clearly competitive risk," says Mark Mahaney, a managing director at Citigroup. (See the best travel gadgets...
...iPhone revolutionized smartphones, but I think we all accept that smartphones were in our future. There is no equivalent consensus that tablets or couch computers or casual computers are inevitably on the road ahead. We don't even agree on the aims here: Is the iPad replacing the laptop or supplementing it? The scale of the wager means that - unlike Jobs' self-professed hobby, the Apple TV - the iPad will be a site of rapid innovation over the next 24 months. Making broad statements about Apple's long-term intentions based on features that didn't ship with Version...
...could make the case that a phone operating system needed more security scrutiny for third-party apps. But these arguments no longer make sense when you're talking about a computing platform with 10 hours of battery life, a blisteringly fast CPU and ambitions to replace your laptop. It's fine for Apple to be secretive when it talks about the future of its products. But when Apple talks about the present this way, it just sounds like Pravda...