Sydney is blessed with a wonderful facility for the bestest shopping experience: The Apple Store. It is joy to spend hands-on time with all the latest hardware, especially since the place is buzzing with a legion of cheerful, red & blue-T-shirted experts in all things Mac, be it hardware or software. The services there are great … I have just started One-to-One, and I'm a regular at the Genius Bar. Go check the place out.

Since my 2008 June 18 open letter to Mac I have succumbed to the pressure and upgraded my location computers: I am now the owner of a 17" MacBook Pro and a 13" MacBook Air 64gb ssm. Not exactly the computers I wanted … I guess I had placed my order while listening to the Stones: "You can't always get what you want, but … sometimes you get what you need." Compromises are the spice of life (I made that last bit up to suit the occasion … I don't really think so.) Amen.