Waseem Sufi-

Thanks for the tips. Keeping the site fresh with insight is challenging. We have found that our podcasts drive traffic and increase the visibility of our home reviews section.

The tradeoff for tight interfacing is you are then LOCKED into Apple’s vision and products. If you wanted a faster processor than what came in your Mac, tough beans. If you want 100 business machines built without a high end graphics card because your business machines don’t need to play Quake, tough beans again - your purchase price cannot be trimmed - pay a premium, buy less machines, or do without.

For many individuals that isn’t a problem, but businesses are not like our public schools (where Apple still reigns supreme) and they need to watch their bottom dollar, and Apples are far more expensive in comparison.

With a Windows OS, if you finally figure out Toshiba makes horribly unreliable laptops (they do), you can get a Dell next time, or an Acer, or a HP, etc.

Now, if your business computer is a Windows OS, chances are you will lean to buying one for your home as well. That was more true in the past decade before the Internet. Since then interoperability became a big consumer wish - mobile devices, set-top boxes, game consoles, etc, should all be able to view the same files.

That said, I still think Apple has a better marketing department. For all the cool features the iPhone offered at launch, it still fails in my opinion as a reliable phone - it still drops calls, doesn’t ring at times when receiving a call, and quite frankly, it is difficult to comfortably hold a device that has the form factor of a glass cassette tape. But the iPod, iTouch, and the Mac Minis are actually great devices that are successful not just because of marketing.

See you Tuesday at the Divorce meeting?

Bob- Always happy to help!

Chuck & Joe- You guys don’t need my help…I’ve seen what you accomplish on your blogs…but thanks for the love and I’m always here if you should ever get stuck! Cheers!