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MacBook Air to Kick Ass, Chew Gum

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Apple has dropped the aging and sturdy line of just plain Macbook laptops. You can buy the mobile powerhouse MacBook Pro, or you can buy a MacBook Air. So with the new OS 10.7 “Lion” standard, the addition of the new thunderbolt port, and upgraded processor and RAM, the featherweight MacBook Air is all out of bubble gum.

These changes seem incremental and individually they are. After all, SSDs are not new, low-volt processors and thermal controls are not new, and one can hardly argue that leaving off the optical drive is some sort of improvement. Taken together, they represent most of a revolution in mobile computing. The MacBook Air, once the parlor-trick publicity stunt by an otherwise serious computer maker, has just become the standard laptop offering, … Continue reading →

Fascinating Weather Update

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This is one of the most interesting weather updates I have had the pleasure to read, especially since it concerns the fate of a system which used to be a menacing typhoon, and then a collapsing tropical storm, and is at the time of this writing, a mere tropical depression.  From reading the series of these updates, I get the feeling that there has been lively debate (possibly with thrown crockery) at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which uniformly turns in a great product. I reproduce it here in full, and will likely refer back to this post from a more informed future post.

MSGID/GENADMIN/NAVMARFCSTCEN PEARL HARBOR HI/JTWC//
SUBJ/TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING//
RMKS/
1. TROPICAL DEPRESSION 08W (MA-ON) WARNING NR 040
DOWNGRADED FROM TROPICAL … Continue reading →