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I would think that any Apple store would be able to replace the battery for you. Not that doing so doesn't come without some sort of time penalty to visit the store but you don't have to send it out for repair. I'd also like to think the battery will last a lot longer than a year.

Quick update - the good folks at Fisher called yesterday to inform me that my customs were done and ready to ship. I opted for UPS 2 day shipping so they should be here tomorrow and I'm loading up the Ipod with tunes in preparation.

I agree that the choice of 1024x768 is somewhat odd. I really expected that it would support HD video content natively but instead it'll have to scale and resample just about everything.

I guess the 1100 wasn't good enough for all that long, eh? Nice score Dinny, looking forward to your impressions.

It is closest to the Touch since it's clearly a consumption, not creation device. But it does add much better functionality for low-level creation and I'd guess that those abilities will only increase over time.

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1. Packed up the Menace TC Lite, bittersweet. 2. Shipped the remaining few LODs. I do not want to see another padded envelope for a while. 3. Paid for my Fisher Custom IEMs which should arrive Friday, woohoo!

See this is what I don't get, the Air and iPad are completely different things. Why you'd shop them against each other doesn't make any sense to me.

That's not at all what I'm talking about. I want something that I can use at work and at home, and work with content on both machines. Otherwise if I sync at home, but download a audiobook, podcast, whatever at work I can't load it onto any apple device. That's maddening in my book.

This is part of what scares me. Since this is yet another device that requires syncing to get a lot of its content it'd better be able to sync with multiple computers running the same fracking itunes account or that'll be a big strike in my book.

This makes baby jesus cry.

Apple launches A4: its first custom CPU | Electronista A little bit of processor info.

Reks, My experiences with netbooks have been good once you move beyond the 7" size. The 9" asus that I have was perfect on vacation for checking email, casual surfing, watching movies in bed, etc. Neither should be used as a work device (unless you're Dan), at least in my expectation.

Dan, all reports are saying it's the standard iphone/touch OS which means it's nowhere near smart enough to do NAS type stuff.

I'd probably pony up the extra $100 for the 32GB, otherwise if you put one HD movie on the 16GB version and 1/4 of your space is gone. Of course I'll more than likely wait for the second generation when it'll be 32GB stock and until they have someone other than AT&T doing the 3G. I also want to hear some reviews of how it renders full HD video with it's do all processor.

I agree. This thing basically does everything that I use my $1300 Macbook for.

I love how it bombed at 1:30.

Pricing... Wifi $499 16GB $599 32GB $699 64GB w/ 3G add $130 to each Shipping in 60 days for wifi, 90 days for 3G.

There you go GE, it has 3G. 250MB/mo = $14.99 Unlimited = $29.99 Again, fucking AT&T, but without the contract.

Agreed, but Amazon cannot be happy unless they're a silent partner.

My guess is that they will speak to this in just a few minutes.

Yes, but with the caveat of having a ton more horsepower.

Yeah, they'll still sell 10mil of them in the first year. 1/2" 1.5lbs 9.7" IPS display? multi-touch (shocker) 1Ghz Apple processor - all in one 16/32/64GB Flash Storage 10hrs battery life (one month standby) Wifi N Bluetooth Will run all existing iPhone apps either blackboxed or pixel doubled

Ok, like 10min in and he's offered zero specifics about the device. No mention of display size, storage, etc. WTF?

iPad, ugh.