Would have been fun though. If you make it to South Texas give me a ring.
And I'm still a bay area-er, just a different bay. (Corpus Christi Bay). Just a tad bit less sophisticated and forward thinking, but still technically a bay area.
Concerning the PM-1, I'd like to know if it can fit a big head. My noggin is enormous and that eliminates a lot of headphones for me. Pretty much every type of "one size fits all" type of headphone, except for the AT wing design.
GUI has nothing to do with this comparison. Apple's rounded rectangle design patents for the hardware look like these (and dotted lines like some of the buttons, speaker slots and screens do not count/are not claimed as part of the design):