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That would seem to be a pretty big f'ing problem, wouldn't it?

OOB Out Of Budget

Anyone care to recommend a good, inexpensive car charger?

Thanks Dan, I almost have to go refurb in order to get something with dedicated video RAM. I don't like shared, non-discrete video memory.

(un?)happily the refurb 24" iMacs that I was looking at are sold out for now so my wallet can breath a little easier until the lists get updated again with more options.

Liar, this did not happen today.

What Todd said, 2G would be better. But at least this is a fresh never installed version that you could then roll into a Win7 edition upgrade in a few months.

I have a copy of Vista home basic you can have for $15 if you want it Raffy.

Not entirely true. BBC America broadcasts the episodes on my Comcast cable service but in regular definition.

Try reading this. Amplifier classes of operation

Step away my friend, step away.

First tell him to get the gear back from the shop so he can pop a cover and look at it. If it got soaked or even steamed it's probably not worth fixing in my book. It's not so much the water that is the problem, but what is in the water for contaminants during the fire.

Just the light.

I believe it's called making hay while there is hay to be made.

I don't know what you're talking about?

Because if you were trying to explain why to get the winpc it would have taken at least 3 CRTL-ALT-DELETE/END PROGRAM cycles and a few reboots to relay the same message.

The Mac will almost assuredly cost more even with an education discount but fi you can afford it I'd go with one anyway. Looks aside I find the usage of the Mac to be much more straightforward and it's a better built machine than the windows based lappy I have.

Well, I just sent one your way.

One might wonder if I'd already gotten a PM about this...

You could try dying or painting them.

I've got Applecare so I'm going to force them to do this one. The keyboard has never been quite right (keys don't align, aren't at the same elevation, some feel really loose) so I'm hopeful they'll replace the topcase for me. But thanks for the suggestion, I've always wanted to do the ying/yang black keyboard setup after hearing about how you did it.

They were damn near universally loved by this weekend's crew. I don't know why Grado can only do special edition cans well but I find nearly their entire range of current production cans utterly forgettable but both the modded HF-1s and stock HF-2s are superb in my book. They're hardly perfect but what flaws they do have are forgivable.

Hmmm, I replied to this and it didn't show... Anyway, the 24" refurbs they have right now are wicked tempting and if it weren't for the two broken ⌘ keys on my macbook that have me annoyed with Apple right now I'd be much more inclined to dew eet. I want to have a look at the 20" version at the Apple store when I get the mbook repaired since really that will be plenty for what I intend to do with this thing.

One more dumb post out of you and you're gone.

Happy Birthday guys!