It has a fabulous picture when you are watching movies on disc and is generally more responsive then the older Toshiba player; unfortunately, it has the annoying inconvenience of displaying the dreaded Operation Currently Prohibited by Disc message.
So it looks like my track record for 2009 may not be all that bad, although for the most part my overzealous predictions anticipated more adverse impact from the general state of the economy. Fortunately, things are looking better now so for 2010 these predictions should be a little more grounded.
My last full-time Mac was a Centris 650, at the time I spent a lot of effort getting the Houdini 486 PC board running so that I could boot MS-DOS and possibly Linux. While Houdini never lived up to my expectations, the modern Mac is transformative in many regards.
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