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"The problems with Airport Express don’t stop there." I think you mean the problem with [strong]AirStream[/strong] "Want to stream songs to multiple machines that are playing are different songs?" sure, this can't be done. But this is asking a bit much as well. I mean, how many times are you going to want to play different music in different rooms? Planning on opening a large club in your home? I think Apple looked at this caveat and said.. .oh well, its not tha big of a deal. This is just looking for things to complain about. As for the Airport Express. The real point of this is that it is a wireless-ethernet bridge. Most people use these behind their entertainment centers. I have a netgear 802.11g bridge behind mine that is hooked to a switch to allow my ps2, xbox, and tivo to be online. Apple's solution would do the same thing, but, wowzers, now i have a new wire i can connect to my stereo and play my music through it. This is a definate Plus, and thats all it is, its a plus. First and foremost this is a bridge. Which brings me to my other point, its a bridge the size of your fist. No ac adapter, no large base. This can be dropped into your laptop bag and pulled out at any time in order to make your friend's, mother's, hotel's, or client's ethernet only network into a wireless one. Sure you can do that with my bridge, but its big and bulky and i'd never think of just carrying it around in order to extend a network. But the Airport Express is totally portable. And that my friend, is bad ass.

they can be that fast, just wait till iPhoto 4 and iMovie 4. I've demoed them, and WOW. This is how they should be. As for the CPU topic again, sure UI speed is important,and you dont need all that speed for that, but i'm talking about rendering. When i'm done with my iMovie and i want to share it, I want it to render to Mpeg4 ASAP the faster the better. The same goes for background encoding in iDVD. I want it to finish ASAP, and no cpu speed can be too fast for that stuff.

Slow down on producing faster processors? Yer and idiot. Faster processors give us things like faster rendering out of iMovie, or faster dvd creation from iDvd. These happen to be Apple's flagship products and are used every day by Apple users. Now on the PC side, this speed helps too, there's just no good tools to exploit it. So most users don't do any of this content creation. Speed is of the essance and was deperatly needed for Os X to even function well. Its also needed if they want to look more desirable to people contemplating a purchase from the PC side. Slow down? God I hope not.