Briefly noted

I can think of at least two things wrong with Apple's so-called "Genius Bar".

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NB, there's a lot of furor over Apple's $200 iPhone price drop. The outcry from the early adapters isn't over the money, but just the fact that the hoi polloi have been let into their gadget club.

NB the second, it's still the same contract (probably), whose total cost is ~$2k+ over two years. So go ahead and save $2oo if you like, you shrewd wait-three-months shoppers.

NB 3: I might get one of those new iMacs, though. My trusty laptop is 5 years old, and the vacuum tubes are getting harder to find.