Macbook (hot)Air

Nice review in this month's PC plus by Alex Cox...
'all thin and light and cutesy, is a trick. It's a careful psychological manipulator, designed to extract money from pockets. You don't actually want one, but smooth Steve is going to do his best to make you think you do. From the early information leaks, with the name of the machine released to eagle-eyed network sniffers at MAcWorld, to the MacWorld presentation itself, to the generic Apple advert; it's all a carefully constructed dream.'

He says, 'Would we buy a MacBook Air? No, We'd buy a MacBook Pro. Yes, you pay a similar premium for buying Mac hardware but you get so much more than you do with the Air.' He points out that the Pro is only 0.6cm thicker and 1.4lb heavier and concludes that the Air is 'not a good buy'.

books dont crash

This could be a useful title for an article I hope to write but I bet it's somewhere else on the web... hmmmm... lemmie just check...
oh - yep - plenty of them, about 400 - but much less if you fail to spell don't correctly

pptx

Well the student arguably should have tried it out beforehand but really this is 'blimin computers' again because we dont have 2007 across the Uni yet and they brought it in in that fomat. Result - no show on the presentation slide for her summative (climactic end of honours degree) presentation!! grrr.... a lot of fiddling about with installing converters in the office with a mate got us there eventually but just imagine doing all that in front of your markers and peers!!!
No way.