Discretionary spend is an important thought here as well. Does anyone really - I mean, really - need a tablet? Of course not. Ultimately, It's a luxury good.

The H2n will be available September 2011 for $199.

With this one you may also have to get used to people saying to you, "I've never heard of the AViiQ tablet before! Oh, and it runs Apple apps too!"

Remember the World Wide Web era when Internet Explorer was the only game in town? It was a grey web. Bleak, boring, bland. Then along came Mozilla, Firefox, Chrome, Safari...

It's an interesting move. Here we have Amazon reportedly building a tablet that will run Android. Meanwhile Google is making a big move into the e-Reader space, which will potentially cut into Amazon's sales. Can you say co-opetition?

At this point I was fully expecting to be plunking down a few thousand for an i7 iMac. Instead I'll be speccing out a DIY Intel i7 build that will run Adobe CS5.5 on Windows 7.

I'll leave it up to you if you're an aluminum showboat or a scratch avoider.

Us Android users will feel right at home with the new capability.

Oddly, despite the modern aesthetic of Final Cut's new interface, I still very much appreciate timelines and the classic editing look of Premiere. I don't think we need to design this for babysitters, folks.

One thing that stands out so far with FCPX is the speed. It loads fast. Works fast. It's just fast, fast, fast.