TMoney

Yes, the mini uses the same Intel chips as the MacBook Pro line. Also, FWIW, the iMac line uses desktop-class Intel chips but laptop-class nVidia GPUs.

They are bigger and more expensive, but I can't say enough about the 30" Korean Monitor I bought from one of the ebay sellers. 2560x1600 is very nice for having two documents open at the same time. Also the size difference between the 30" and the 27"ers is quite noticeable.

Finished the two seasons. I enjoyed it, but for some reason I felt guilty for watching it. I guess I have the same feelings for this show that I have for Piper. She is hot, you want to like her, but your not sure if there is really all that much there.

^ Great haul!!!!

Another game heads towards penalties... wow. WOW!

Ideally both, right? I realize its a pipe dream, but both as well as some A/B listening test would be nice.

Once, just once I'd like to see an audio review where they compare the modified unit to a stock unit, preferably blind, but I'd settle for sighted.

Just a wonderful job by this Algerian goal keeper. If they go on to win this he is my "man of the match."

Brazil, you are so friggin' lucky.

Rip, Tuco! One of my all time favorite movie characters.

I would try taking off the overclock entirely and see if you still have problems. If things go back to normal, start dialing it up again slowly.

Wow, what a soul crusher there at the end. I guess so long as Germany doesn't kill us and Portugal doesn't lay down to Ghana we should be moving on... but still, would have been nice to have everything wrapped up.

Wow. Great win! Heart in my throat the entire 2nd half.

Just finished Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. Really enjoyed it. It's a bit all over the place, but any scene with Willy Stark in it is solid gold. It is a classic for a reason, despite its flaws. I had seen both the 1950's and 2000's movie adaptations prior to reading this and that didn't dampen my enjoyment of the book in the slightest. Penn Warren is a very good writer.

Dave over at the EEVBlog put up this informative post on the economics of selling niche electronics. As our headphone stuff is about as niche as it gets, I figure many of the points he talks about in this article are going to apply. Worth a read! http://www.eevblog.com/2014/05/28/the-economics-of-selling-your-hardware-project/

So it looks like this Apple acquiring Beats is really a thing and not just somebody's late April Fools joke. Gotta say, Tim Cook-lead Apple has gone more or less how I thought it would go. IMO their execution on the existing hardware lines (iPads, iPhones, Laptops, Mac Pro) has been spectacular. Samsung and HTC have made big strides, but as of the date of the launches the Apple hardware is industry leading. Tim seems like a CEO who would be masterful at handling iterative hardware with his operations backgrounds and so far he has been. It's the new product lines I'm worried about. iTunes Radio seems to have been a failure. I liked IOS7, but I wonder how much of that was just Ive being Ive rather than being directed by others. Tim just does not seem like an idea man to me. But Beats? Come on, Apple! Isn't the streaming music marketplace already saturated enough? This does not seem like a good idea to me.

There were some brutal kills in that episode, even by GoT standards. The one at the end... wow.

A new language from Rosetta Stone: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1ba2/?pfm=af14_homepage_Featured_3_1ba2 Haha!

Saw this on Time's website and figured it'd be fun to start a thread to collect great April Fools pranks. http://time.com/44174/best-april-fools-pranks-ever/?hpt=hp_t3 All of these are golden. I remember when that Taco Bell Liberty Bell one went down. Loved this one on Demarcus Cousins of the Sacramento Kings as well: http://nba.si.com/2014/03/31/demarcus-cousins-album/

A Wu-Tang album may have been relevant back in oh, say 1996. Now, who cares?

A port of the desktop office it is not, but I've got to say I'm impressed by the apps. The Word app seems like it will do well in my document review/edit-check heavy workflows. I wasn't counting on, nor would I want to ditch a laptop/desktop for document creation. I wanted Word for iPad to take a more complimentary role and it certainly seems like it is up to the task. On the spreadsheet front I still couldn't imagine ever working in excel without a keyboard and mouse, but its nice to be able to review spreadsheets and models on my iPad as well. I'm not a powerpoint user so I can't really comment on that one. The OneDrive (the artist formerly known as SkyDrive) integration works wonderfully. I think the Ars review title sums it up in a nutshell: "People who already use Office will love Office for iPad" http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/mini-review-people-who-already-use-office-will-love-office-for-ipad/

Seals & Crofts

MS Office apps launched on iPad today. Holy fucking shit, MS did something right. The apps can open the docs we work on at the office and it gets the formatting right on the iPad. I already deleted pages, numbers and keynote. Amazing job, MS. http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/27/announcing-the-office-you-love-now-on-the-ipad/

I find this answer confusing at best and disappointing at worst. Right now I don't have much faith that the Pono store will be all that much of an improvement over HDTracks. Hoping Neil proves me wrong.