Give me a real netbook any day of the week. Touch screen is nice, but I just can’t get on the Apple band wagon. I’ve tried, believe me I’ve tried. The sad part is, we’re conditioned to Apple’s dictatorship. There’s no expectation of an Apple device to allow you to do what you want with it. We’ve never known freedom with any apple device, so why should we expect it now?

U.S. District Judge William Alsup banned Psystar from selling Apple compatible hardware. On Psystar’s website, all of the products including Mac, Windows, and Linux products are listed as “Out of stock” except for Rebel EFI. Apple and Psystar filed to protect materials considered sensitive before going to court almost a year ago, so this injunction has been in the works for some time.

With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It’s a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other.

In some versions of Macintosh OS X, it evidently appears that the side by side iMac and Macintosh Mini will indeed be based on the NVIDIA MCP79 chipset. MacBook, MacBook and MacBook Air models all went to the NVIDIA chipsets back in October. What’s going on with the …