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	<title>Comments on: Macbook Touch? Think Again. Completely Re-vamped Notebook Line Instead?</title>
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		<title>By: MaX</title>
		<link>http://www.macblogz.com/2008/07/24/macbook-touch-think-again-completely-re-vamped-notebook-line-instead/comment-page-1/#comment-520</link>
		<dc:creator>MaX</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Check this out:

iPhone Pro:
The full power of Leopard in your pocket.
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/gallery/image_med/15417
http://www.ilounge.com/gallery/iphone_concept/iphonePro2.jpg

We need thousands for our University if they come with the FULL Mac OS X inside, Firewire and Ethernet ports.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check this out:</p>
<p>iPhone Pro:<br />
The full power of Leopard in your pocket.<br />
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<p>We need thousands for our University if they come with the FULL Mac OS X inside, Firewire and Ethernet ports.</p>
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		<title>By: EricS.</title>
		<link>http://www.macblogz.com/2008/07/24/macbook-touch-think-again-completely-re-vamped-notebook-line-instead/comment-page-1/#comment-444</link>
		<dc:creator>EricS.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Blu-Ray would drain my battery. Big time.... Not worth it for me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blu-Ray would drain my battery. Big time&#8230;. Not worth it for me.</p>
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		<title>By: dave</title>
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		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The sole reason BluRay video support not being present [as at least some BluRay drives are supported for data reading/writing natively by the OS], is because Apple is not willing to bend over and take it from the MPAA like Microsoft was.

You need to have a completely locked down architecture, including ONLY drivers signed and vetted by Microsoft, with the video signal encrypted the entire path up to the display, to be able to display either HDDVD or BluRay on Windows Vista computers [XP users need not apply, not because it&#039;s not capable, but because it&#039;s not &quot;secure&quot; enough for big media].  Then, you need to sprinkle goats blood over the keyboard and pray to God that the stars are properly aligned to be able to view them.  Hell, you even need to implement a check that your hardware hasn&#039;t been modified, that Microsoft can call your driver repeatedly [slowing down your system] to make sure you haven&#039;t hacked your hardware while you are watching your video.

All this work, which adds millions of dollars to development costs, probably adding more than $100 per computer JUST for this MPAA-mandated &quot;security&quot; [not including the actual hardware/software to display the video], and shortly after both formats became available, they were hacked so &quot;unauthorized&quot; systems could play these same videos.

Do you really want the cost of your Mac to rise by several hundred dollars on top of the cost of the BluRay hardware, AND also have fewer and/or more expense hardware devices supported by MacOS X because due to driver signing and &#039;hack-proofing&#039; mandated by the MPAA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The sole reason BluRay video support not being present [as at least some BluRay drives are supported for data reading/writing natively by the OS], is because Apple is not willing to bend over and take it from the MPAA like Microsoft was.</p>
<p>You need to have a completely locked down architecture, including ONLY drivers signed and vetted by Microsoft, with the video signal encrypted the entire path up to the display, to be able to display either HDDVD or BluRay on Windows Vista computers [XP users need not apply, not because it's not capable, but because it's not "secure" enough for big media].  Then, you need to sprinkle goats blood over the keyboard and pray to God that the stars are properly aligned to be able to view them.  Hell, you even need to implement a check that your hardware hasn&#8217;t been modified, that Microsoft can call your driver repeatedly [slowing down your system] to make sure you haven&#8217;t hacked your hardware while you are watching your video.</p>
<p>All this work, which adds millions of dollars to development costs, probably adding more than $100 per computer JUST for this MPAA-mandated &#8220;security&#8221; [not including the actual hardware/software to display the video], and shortly after both formats became available, they were hacked so &#8220;unauthorized&#8221; systems could play these same videos.</p>
<p>Do you really want the cost of your Mac to rise by several hundred dollars on top of the cost of the BluRay hardware, AND also have fewer and/or more expense hardware devices supported by MacOS X because due to driver signing and &#8216;hack-proofing&#8217; mandated by the MPAA.</p>
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