On Feb 16, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Bob Stern wrote:

> I think I read that Macbook Airs are becoming increasingly popular for business users who travel a lot.  If that's true, I don't know why Apple isn't paying more attention to preserving the Mac's utility for business (word processing, graphics editing, music editing, etc) even as it adds features to turn the Mac into a vending machine for music and videos.
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> Maybe Apple should sell a more expensive version of OS X that is optimized for power users rather than emulating an iPad.
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> Bob Stern
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Macs are still fine for business, graphics, video and the like.
Mountain Lion will add additional cloud capability which, for me, will be very useful as I create videos, Keynote presentations, and various documents on multiple devices. 

And one can indeed be a "power user" with an iPad. I've created complete presentations for conferences on my first-generation iPad. And, with an adaptor, I've presented at conferences from my iPad. Much more efficient than using a laptop.

Gary