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My previous Dell chat from a few years ago went something like this:

me: keyboard is broken

dell rep: how about us coming over to fix it this afternoon?

Maybe things have gone downhills since then?

[grawk]

it's harder to pop over from chenai

[jvlgato]

Yeah, I have never an experience like that from Dell, and I've worked with them for at least 5 years. When I call sales, they seem reasonably useful, but when I call tech support, they're much much less useful. And if I ask where I'm calling, they usually become really bashful, and say either the Phillipines or India. They usually ask me why I ask where I'm calling, like I shouldn't be able to tell - one of them said they train really hard to sound American. I really don't care where I'm calling, as long as they are understandable, and they are helpful; but all to often, they are neither.

[Grahame]

2010 MacBook Air owners reporting logic board and display issues -- Engadget

[MexicanDragon]

Posting this from an 11.6" MBA. The keyboard travel is pretty short, but the build is great, just noticed the o-ring around the edge of the screen which I'm sure helps out a good bit. Reasonable bit of screen real estate, pixel wise, at least. Speakers seem incredibly weak, but, I mean, we all have JH13s anyways, right?

Needless to say, I want one. I am sold on this thing as a portable machine (thought I already was, really). Yeah, I want one.

I have a feeling this keyboard would be really fast once you readjust to the insanely short travel. Can't really tell how fast the thing would be (I'm at a MacAuthority), but yeah, it's sweet.

**BRENT**

[Absorbine_Sr]

Posting this from an 11.6" MBA. The keyboard travel is pretty short, but the build is great, just noticed the o-ring around the edge of the screen which I'm sure helps out a good bit. Reasonable bit of screen real estate, pixel wise, at least. Speakers seem incredibly weak, but, I mean, we all have JH13s anyways, right?

Needless to say, I want one. I am sold on this thing as a portable machine (thought I already was, really). Yeah, I want one.

I have a feeling this keyboard would be really fast once you readjust to the insanely short travel. Can't really tell how fast the thing would be (I'm at a MacAuthority), but yeah, it's sweet.

**BRENT**

I played with one at a nearby Apple store and really liked it. If I didn't have a 2010 13" MBP already, I'd probably have bought it.

[Knuckledragger]

Apple sacked the Xserve. Does anyone remotely care? In related news, the Mac Pro is now available in a "server" configuration.

[morphsci]

Now checking out the MBA 11. This will be mine!

[Voltron]

It is very difficult to resist once you have seen the MBA in person.

[blessingx]

Just saw the MBA in the flesh myself. That 11" is cute.

[Currawong]

Apple sacked the Xserve. Does anyone remotely care? In related news, the Mac Pro is now available in a "server" configuration.

I think that they are probably selling way more Mini Servers than XServes and considering that the racker server market is too cut-throat to compete in the writing was on the wall.

[grawk]

my guess is the xserve will come back in a year or so...

[VPI]

Enjoying a new 13" MBA. Nice little laptop. Will work well as my travel/photo editing laptop.

[shellylh]

Nice Jeff!

[MexicanDragon]

Enjoying a new 13" MBA. Nice little laptop. Will work well as my travel/photo editing laptop.

But... will it charge your iPad?

**BRENT**

[VPI]

Yes it does charge the iPad. I am finding that it works great with Adobe LR3 but when using the resource hog Aperture 3, it is quite slow.

[jvlgato]

Have had my first Mac (a mini) for a few months now. Doing great. But ... does everyone really not run any antivirus software at all? Is it truly just not a threat on a Mac?

[Aimless1]

I didn't run anti virus on my macbook for about 18 months. But since Apple saw fit to advertise that you didnt' need anti virus a few months ago I figure that was a challenge for the scumbags who do that kind of stuff. I ran the anti virus that comes with my cable service a couple of months ago and it did pick up a couple of minor viruses and claims to have blocked an attack.

[jvlgato]

OS X doesn't have viruses for the same reason Linux doesn't, and it's not just an obscurity issue.

Is it the way the OS is written that makes it very difficult to create and spread virus? I've read some say that, and others say it's because there aren't enough users to make it worthwhile.

I'd love to continue to not run an antivirus program. I just feel naked ...

[jvlgato]

Good to know, thanks!

[Aimless1]

Good to know Reks. One of those times I don't mind being corrected. I can get rid of the anti virus and stop having it bog things down. I'll have to go back and check the log to see just exactly what it was it says it found.

[luvdunhill]

The guys you have to worry about won't be detected by AV anyways, so why bother?

[Grahame]

Shhhh, the backdoor's for the TLA's (Three Letter Agencies) are supposed to be a secret!

[luvdunhill]

it's the two letter agencies you really have to worry about. the one letter agencies have moved past computers.

I'd probably be more worried about the TLA "RBN" than the usual ones. Reason is simple: they pay better.

[luvdunhill]

Researchers sound alarm over critical Mac OS X bug | Operating Systems | Macworld