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I love to write, so it pains me to say this, but when writing to an engineering audience (e.g. posting to a development discussion list), succinct always beats florid.

If I have to read two 1200px high screenfuls of your prose to understand ideas that could be better expressed in a couple of sentences, I'm likely to not even begin - I have other things to do.

Consider the "Paperwork Reduction Act" notice atop many government forms listing the "estimated burden" of time required to complete the form. What's the estimated burden to fully digest and respond to your email?

What with the never ending succession of coolness, obsolete but usable hardware becomes an annoying problem.

What Apple really needs is a trade-in or lease program for its computers similar to that done by car dealers. It'd take the edge off the $3k per machine cost every couple of years ;-)