New Mac

[tongodeon]

Back in November I said that Apple would be releasing Penryn MacBooks at MacWorld. Turns out I was about two months late, possibly because Apple delayed because of the Migetbook. New stuff came out today pretty much as I anticipated but without the rumored case redesign. The new MacBooks have the multitouch trackpad from the Air, and that's

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[kraquehaus]

The new MacBooks have the multitouch trackpad from the Air,

My sources state that the multitouch functionality is a software limitation on existing MacBooks that support the two finger scroll. i.e., My laptop is purposely being crippled for marketing reasons.

[tongodeon]

That was true back in 2005 when they released the two-finger-scroll powerbooks and you needed iscroll to make them work. Are you sure you're not talking about that?

[kraquehaus]

Nope. Specifically about the more current multi-touch macbooks.

[kraquehaus]

Nope, mostly because I do not know of SOX. Either my geek isn't big enough or I'm missing a joke or I'm lacking some other knowledge.

[tongodeon]

Sarbanes-Oxley

[kraquehaus]

Two things:

1) I'm really sorry, but I completely don't get the isyournewbicycle.org thing. I feel like it is either over, under, or to the side of my head.

2) I looked up SOX and super-skimmed the wikipedia entry on it and was left wondering how it had anything to do with the trackpad of a macbook.

I am confused.

Little o, underscore, zero.

[kraquehaus]

Got it.

Just like the wireless upgrade that was hiding in the hardware?

Thanks!

[kraquehaus]

Oh, I have no opinion on it. Like I said, I did a quick skim and couldn't find the connection. From my skim it sounded like a lot of basic "good stuff"; just couldn't figure out what it had to do with a trackpad.

I don't see anything wrong, on a basic level, with shipping with a feature you have to pay to unlock. It is done all the time. (For example, DVD encoding on the first gen Xbox; you had to "buy the remote control" to enable it as a DVD player.)

[ikkyu2]

Stop gabbing on the internet and ship my damn Time Capsule already, man.

[ikkyu2]

I do like it. It is good.

[tongodeon]

A while ago you mentioned a slew of bugs getting fixed as the Time Capsule firmware gets folded back into the AirPort Extreme firmware. Any chance that'll happen sometime soon?