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Okay, this is going to be a short one because without any shadow of a doubt it could easily end up being 5000 words long and my rant still wouldn't be over. So here goes...

Please, for the love of god, stop making stuff up about Apple's new tablet! In fact, Apple hasn't even confirmed they are going to be making a tablet and we won't hear a word until Wednesday. I've seen incredibly ridiculous (incredulous really) headings online about an unreleased and unannounced device that make it so incredibly obvious how much the media and consumers are Apple tools...

And the worst part is that despite the fact that I'm awesome, I've still been turned into a tool. See, I spent exactly 7 minutes mocking up my own Apple tablet for use on this blog entry. I think it turned out pretty good for a 7 minute mock-up job. The best part is that I only needed two shapes and a screenshot of OSX and I could have fooled you all into thinking it was Apple promo material.

Some classics over the past week include:

Apple Tablet an Ideal Business Tool

What that should have read is "I'd Love to Play with a Tablet at Work". Then they start trying to guess names for this thing: "It could be an iSlate, or an iSlab, or an iTablet, or perhaps even an iPod Tablet Edition." Aside from the fact that all those names are laughable (iSlate, really?) why are we even discussing it? Don't we have better things to do with our lives than get wet over the name of an ideal business tablet that isn't even confirmed to exist yet?

Apple's Tablet: a gizmo to save the world

Wow, this is going to be good, Apple is going to save our planet. I don't think the word "overhyped" even fits this article. I mean think about it, the whole premise here is that we are all going to die and Apple's unannounced tablet will save us all. Then again, I should be ecstatic - we aren't all going to go the way of the dinosaur in 2012! Reason enough to fork out cash for Apple's new mystery device.

iTablet may save publishing

I think that finally we are starting to cool down a bit here - at least the word overhyped fits the bill this time. Still, you have to appreciate the irony here, the media bringing you an article published online asking the question whether a tablet will save the very publishing we know, love and read online today.

Can Apple save the written word?

Yes, obviously all languages will cease to exist without Apple making a tablet... Obviously!

Now don't take any of this the wrong way, I'm sure that Apple and its engineers have put a huge amount of work into whatever device it is that they are launching. What's more, I'm sure it will be a great product with some really cool applications. In fact in case you hadn't noticed that I never actually spend time complaining about Apple so I'll spell it out for you: I can't stand Apple tools. It's such an incredible shame that I can't rightfully go and buy an Apple product without looking and feeling like a Jobs drone...

As per usual though, props to Steve Jobs for making a fool out of all of us.

Mkay, lets keep this simple, I've got a compiled and ready to go VMware virtual machine available for download at the following URL:

http://files.cmoullas.net/chrome_os.rar

With that out of the way, I still don't get it... I wrote what you might call an opinion piece on why Google Chrome OS Will Fail back in July when the OS was announced and after having done a little playing with it, I still don't understand what all the fuss is about. It's kind of interesting to have an operating system that logs you on using your Google account straight out of the box, but... It's a glorified web browser and as expected, the operating system has gone backwards. It does just about nothing that Windows hasn't been doing since the introduction of group policy and active directory in 2000 (or possibly earlier actually).

What is there to talk about? It's a web browser in a box, otherwise known as dumbed-down Linux with Google Chrome installed and starting by default. I'm off to see if I can make it do any more tricks than that, but unless somebody who has read my explanation of why it will fail can explain to me how this will displace the OS as we know it, then please be my guest.

And for the record, I'll take Ubuntu over this any day, and that's high praise coming form a "Windows guy"!

I'll leave you with a screenie of the new OS:

Seagate is now shipping what they claim is the world's first SATA 3 hard drive which sports 6Gb/s transfer rates - two times higher than the previous ubiquitous SATA 2 generation interface found on nearly all motherboards and drives today.

What we know about the new Barracuda XT so far is that it has 64MB of cache while the industry standard is either 16MB or 32MB and has a total capacity of 2 terabytes, matching Western Digital's highest capacity offerings. Seagate has also mentioned that the drive uses 500GB platters spinning at a full 7200 RPM, making this monster a four-platter drive. The areal density of the platters is known to be as high as 367 gigabits per square inch.

"Unlike other 2-TB [models] that run at 5400 or 5900-RPM speeds, the new Barracuda XT drive is built on a full-speed, 7200-RPM, 4-disk platform," said Seagate spokesperson David Burks. "Further turbocharged with a huge 64-MB cache and the industry's new, high-performance SATA 6Gb/s interface, the Barracuda XT drive is destined to set a new standard for high-speed desktop performance."

Burks also went on to explain that the large 64MB cache was added mainly to leverage the faster interface transfer rate: "The XT's 64MB cache optimizes burst performance and reduces data throughput bottlenecks, so cache-efficient games and applications, such as non-linear video editing tools, will experience a real performance boost right out of the chute."

While not strictly true as SATA3 has yet to see widespread availability, Marvell, a maker of drive controllers, has said that first-gen SATA 6Gbps controllers are already incorporated in some high end motherboards such as the Asus P755D Premium and the Gigabyte GA-P55-Extreme. What's more, if you feel a real need for speed and are on a budget then you can expect expansion cards in the very near future which add the new controller to your existing system. The drive is of course backwards-compatible with existing SATA 1.5Gbps and SATA 3Gbps controllers, however.

The new Barracuda XT should be ideally suited for high-performance desktops or low-cost servers according to Seagate and will go on sale immediately for $299, roughly the same price as competing drives from WD which offer a slower RPM and the older SATA 3Gbps interface.