Mat Bowles

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PC World - In Pictures: The Most Notable Notebooks of 2007:

The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year--or for that matter, ever--is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware. The $2419 (plus the price of a copy of Windows Vista, of course) MacBook Pro's PC WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88 beats Gateway's E-265M by a single point, but the MacBook's score is far more impressive simply because Apple couldn't care less whether you run Windows.

Being of the couldn't really care less brigade within the ongoing Holy War between Mac fanatics and the rest of the world (yes, there are Windows fanboys, I understand them even less, at least Mac fanboys have an excuse), well, that's just weird. A machine not designed in any way for the latest M$ release outperforms the best of the best of those that were?

I'm sure that there's some weird alterno-verse where this makes sense. And in this world, the only person I've ever killfiled in Gmail is probably worshipped as a deity of some kind.

EMI dumps DRM on iTunes. Is the glacier moving?

Only on iTunes, but DRM free is good regardless.

ETA: Not just on iTunes. EMI Press Release:

From today, EMI's retailers will be offered downloads of tracks and albums in the DRM-free audio format of their choice in a variety of bit rates up to CD quality. EMI is releasing the premium downloads in response to consumer demand for high fidelity digital music for use on home music systems, mobile phones and digital music players. EMI's new DRM-free products will enable full interoperability of digital music across all devices and platforms.