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This again. @Chris - should I call you Tim?

Happy Birthday Bovine One!

That's what she said.

If you go to the first link in 129 above and go to support you can download the 105 manual. The remote has a volume + - button. Since you can choose among multiple digital inputs it acts as a digital preamp. So when are you buying one?

Yep, it is a digital preamp at best.

Exactly. I take curmudgeon to a whole new level. There's no school like the old school.

I actually have one of these hooked up to my iPad:

In the middle of replacing/upgrading all of the UPSs. Modem and AirPort Extreme currently on surge protection only. Power now back on. Backup generator coming online, summer 2013.

Sitting in a dark house with no power. 3G iPad FTMFW!

For some reason with that logo I picture feminine hygiene products.

The real statistic we need is residual point difference.

I was being unusually polite.

If you're selling tadpoles or other items with a flagellum.

And a big meme at that.

^^^ This. After numerous in computer drive failures ( all PCs at the time) I went external and never looked back. My main ripping drive is an external LG that is going on 4 years with no trouble. Has connected flawlessly to every Mac and PC I have thrown at it. Internal optical drives are so 20th century.

I have been comparing the Apple and Google Apps since IOS6 came out. Apple maps on the iPhone and Google maps on the iPad. During that time the only issue I had was the lack of a mass transit choice in Apple maps when I was in Chicago. A quick app download fixed that. No other issues so I updated the iPad to IOS6 yesterday. Sorry I waited.

Sorry to hear about your cat Ken.

With fast I/O ports, external optical drives (and storage) seems like the smarter way to go. But maybe I'm just an Apple apologist.

Probably update my iPad2 to the 4 after the holidays. Absolutely no interest in the iPad mini. Probably upgrade the 11" MBA in the summer. May go 13" rMBP, need to check it out in person first to see if the weight is acceptable.

13" rMBP makes the 13" MBA even less attractive.

QFT

Put up Halloween decorations. Between a hammer falling on my head and fighting with noncooperating lights I felt like Clark Griswold.

Happy Birthday Boyz! ^3