<b>Mariner</b> I don’t know what happened to my previous post, I wrote about Office 2007 and that the Ribbon interface isn’t just “eye candy”… has been around for years you should have heard of it. Opera happens to be the most innovative browser out there. They had tabs before Firefox even existed. Apple stole the <b>idea</b> of a GUI from Xerox’s PARC, Microsoft stole the “look and feel” of Apple’s implementation. They got sued for it, Apple did not. Regarding Adobe, it’s not only “up to CS2” CS4 was introduced a few days ago. You have me a little confused regarding processors, I think you are confused with “IBM Compatible”. Apple used Power PC processors made by <b>IBM</b>, when those weren’t meeting their needs they switched to the <b>Intel</b> processors that you rave about. It was a great move. Note that the Power PC processor is <b>not</b> a bad processor, it’s used in many different products including Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Microsoft even used Power Mac G5’s in creating it because it used the same processor architecture. One of the problems with Power PC was energy consumption and heat. Macs still do run fairly hot because of their denseness. But, they don’t use more power unless you’re referring to the Mac Pro which is a <b>workstation</b> and doesn’t use any more power that a similarly configured Windows box.
Regarding the iPod, it shines in it’s ease of use. No other media player is as easy to use, from using the actual device to syncing it with a computer and buying content from the iTunes Store. It fits in well with Apple’s overall strategy of making devices for “non-techies”.