1. Who uses Adobe Reader for Mac anyway? Preview is more than suitable, and there are open source alternatives [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/].

I think the pundits are taking themselves too seriously. Most of the compaints about the new MacBook Pro are silly.
- Most digital cameras do not have covered lenses.
- Lithium Polymer batteries have a higher charge density [+20%] that Lithium Ion and they are much less likely to burst into flames. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion_polymer_battery]

- Rosetta is not too slow to be useful. All Apple SoftwareProducts are to be released as Universal Binaries and all Apple Pro products are due out as UB before the end of March. The phrase 'cross-grade' has been coined and the dollar amount of USD$79 has been bandied about. At least they have told us to expect slower performance...

- The comment about MS Office being sold for half price because that is the expected level of preformance is ignorant. Who has paid full price for a single or family licence of MS Office in the last 12 months? Not me. We are due for an upgrade now anyway, now we'll wait a little longer and get a UB version. Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has committed to developing MS Office for the next 5 years.

- The MacBook Pro is a transistion machine. They probably have been produced in a very low quantity. Don't expect it to be around in this specification for long. This machine will sell and to the same kinds of people who went and purchased OS X 10.1 - fanboys and developers. This is a good thing - especially people who used code from small and/or part-time developers.

- Why does owning an Apple Product give a licence to criticise every single decision the business makes? The transistion to Intel CPUs is a huge positive step for this platform. Performance is going to significantly increase and costs should decrease. This will let Apple innovate in the Design and Software fields. This is not a strategy to increase sales or reduce costs this month - it is the first step in a long term plan.

Angry Dan Out!