I've never had more fun watching every last pitch of the 206 million dollar Yankees beat thrashed by the 55 million dollar Rangers.

And you guys have convinced me, I will buy a foamy condom for my new mba.

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"my mba is 3 years old and I think it is time to upgrade"

I am glad to see that someone else is as bad as I am.

The flash storage will make the mba super speedy. I've got a 180GB SSD in my Mac Pro. Love it!
But I also have another 4TB of storage. I'd miss that in the mba.
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I am hoping the 128 SSD makes it speedier since the cpu doesn't seem to have sped up. I've had the MBA for three years and I haven't filled it up yet because it is never the repository. (Just checked and my 80 GB still has 15 GB left without trying to delete stuff.) The MBA visits my lab all the time which has somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 TB of space double live backed up and also tape backed up so I never really keep anything local. Important live stuff I am working on I mail to myself every day and large projects stay on servers.

With cloud computing in our future this should be the way you all will do it. Why have 4 TB in your house. Your house could burn down. The Amazon cloud prices are dirt cheap. Unfortunately they aren't that great for what we do. Transferring up several TB over months in little bits is fine. Loading even a few GB of genome up takes too long.

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The best thing about my SSD is the boot time and the speed at which applications open up.
Apple says the MBA SSD will boot the notebook in less than 15 seconds.

"Why have 4 TB in your house. Your house could burn down."

My computer is my pride and joy. If my house burns down, I'm going with it.

I admit I don't understand Cloud Computing.
I looked at:
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon VPC
Amazon CloudWatch
Elastic Load Balancing
Elastic Block Store
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Amazon Relational Database Service
Amazon Simple Notification Service

I must be getting old because I really don't understand that stuff either.
But I don't really want to pay Amazon for storing my data.
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i am giving a TEDx speech next week and talking about going paperless. but i'll be pushing cloud based storage as well instead of filing cabinets. i am really trying to dumb it down to make sure i am not too geeky sounding. ;~)

Fantastic Sean,
Did you fax all your peers about this event