Confidential to Jasmine: Watch "The Producers" much?

Bad idea to overclock a MacBook. They get too damn hot as it is, and the fan starts at the slightest provocation.

OK, I'm going to join the chorus for an Intel proc and an IBM/Lenovo-style pointing stick. The trackpad on one side and the buttons on the other is really sucky. A pointing stick in the middle of the keyboard, with buttons on the right and left hand sides replacing the trackpad and the buttons would be just right.

I would also suggest underclocking the proc to help cool the thing. The one very striking thing about the Cloudbook is how quickly it gets hot. Another idea would be to put a 4-pin mini FireWire port on it, because even though FireWire is somewhat going through a decline it's still much better than USB2.

The HD is actually a very, very good thing. It means you can install a *real* Linux distro on a Cloudbook.

No, that's Ted Turner! That was the cell phone he used to use when he still owned his cable networks!

Hopefully 10.5.2 will stabilize Leopard enough to where it can be used on production machines. I'm stuck at Tiger 10.4.11 while I wait for Leopard to stabilize. This is not new with Mac OS, BTW: 7.5 took until 7.5.3 "Unity Release" to be usable, for example. And Cheetah and Puma weren't really usable either...it took until "Jag-Wire" (10.2) for Mac OS X to be right. I seem to remember a couple of updates needed too for Jaguar.

Apple NEVER charges for updates. And what's more, since Mac OS X Cheetah (10.0) the point release is a full-fledged new OS. Since X (Roman numeral 10) is part of the OS's identity now, each subsequent release of the OS is a point after 10. This should hold up until 10.99.x, which should be in a couple of hundred years or so.