DISQUS

I used a Pismo for years when I was in college. The PowerBook was sturdy, reliable, full featured, it was really great. At launch this notebook was about as fast as any G3 Mac desktop; the first G4s had just been introduced a few months earlier but the MHz stagnation was about to begin.

Since the Titanium, Mac laptops are incredibly sexy and impossibly thin, but they have cosmetic issues and they look frail. You can't have it both ways, I suppose. Over the years I've heard about paint issues, broken hinges, the iBook recall (faulty motherboards), cracks, discoloration, the "moo", overheating problems, exploding batteries, etc.

More and more people are ditching desktops in favour of laptops, but I did the opposite. Desktops are more powerful these days: faster CPUs and buses, faster hard drives… About every laptop LCD sucks (6-bit displays) and now I'm used to large monitors. At the moment, I don't need the mobility of a laptop, I see no reason to buy another one. The drawbacks are too great, the advantages too few, at least for me.

My blog don't have much traffic but I was annoyed by comment spam, I renamed wp-comments-post.php and patched comments.php some time ago and it just works.

Wouldn't it be cool to generate a random string during the install process? I don't know if it would be feasible. The file name would be unique to every self-hosted Wordpress blog right from the start. Your imagined plugin would help to keep the spammers at bay.

Maybe you could install a test blog with a separate database to test for compatibility. It’s a one-time hassle.

I think that the IBD/TIPP index is interesting but they're measuring purchase intent and there is a long way from intent to actual purchase. I would take the figures with a grain of salt, it just proves that the general trend is up. By how much exactly remains to be seen. The 9 million Macs in 2007 prediction was made by an analyst without enough evidence to back it up in my opinion.

The overall PC market will grow 10% in 2007 according to IDC and the growth rate will be even lower in the U.S. The Mac growth rate is usually higher, with the current momentum the Mac should continue to grow faster than the market. The difference will be more perceptible in the U.S., the Mac worldwide market share is increasing slower. In a nut, more PC buyers: Likely, and mostly in the U.S. A big breakthrough: I don't think so.

"cause we expect Steve to do something cool everytime he’s on stage."

And...? Your expectations are not reasonable. People like you are proven wrong keynote after keynote. Stop teasing and overhyping, you'll feel better for it. :-P