Physically, the 10.1 is a great feeling device in the hand. Thinner and lighter than you expect it to be, with a gorgeous screen and all the requisite hardware checkboxes filled. I’m not sure how I feel about the 16:9 frame, though. No, scratch that, I’m pretty sure I don’t like it.

In order to prevent this from happening you have to take a copy of the installation DMG from the package contents prior to installation. Looks like I’ll be downloading another copy of Lion shortly.

In addition Lion seems to create a 650mb partition called Recovery HD but this doesn’t appear to include the installation media which requires another download from the Apple servers. Not very friendly for people who don’t have easy access to the internet like myself.

Given the Recovery partition doesn’t include the installation media I have to wonder why it needs to be as large as it is – surely on base Macbook Air this is significant for a partition that contains very little!

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, “whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,” and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

John Adams 2nd president of the United States of America.

“Oh hi, could I please have some assistance with setting up Lo.. umm, Locust notes, umm, Lotus Notes?”

They can make buttons more “touch friendly” all they want, but they’ll never make Excel for Windows feel right on a touchscreen UI.

Fast launching of apps from a tile-based Start screen, which replaces the Windows Start menu with a customizable, scalable full-screen view of apps.

Sounds awfully like Windows phone 7 and would suit a mobile device, but having never used it myself I’m uncertain to how I would find it on the desktop.

Could a change be as good as a holiday?

XPS-15 the world’s thinnest… apart from any thinner 15-inch laptops it wasn’t compared against.

Why did Microsoft pay $8.5B — 10 times the company’s revenue – for a business that has changed hands so many times, never made money, and comes with substantial debt?

“Hey, this works. Let’s do it. Sorry, everyone who liked freedom and openness and apple pie and puppies. American computer users prefer fascism!”