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There is an uninstaller, it's on the Adobe website as many have posted above. You might want to issue a correction to the above article.
My mistake, seems like these are the ultra low variants that DigiTimes is speaking about. Hence the "U" in the model number. Regular Arrandale's will just be 520M, 640M. Well interestingly, they can still hit 2.13 and 2.26 Ghz with Turbo Boost respectively.
Are these clock speeds right? I know Wikipedia isn't always the most reliable source, but they have completely different speeds. They are more in line with what we have seen though. I'm just thinking, for a MacBook Pro to go from a 2.66 Ghz standard to 1.2 Ghz? Doesn't seem right.... and if it is, Apple's going to have to market it in some special way.
I didn't get an email but when I visited http://www.netflix.com/InstantStreamingDisc, I was told that it shipped today and I should be getting it tomorrow. You actually have to be signed up for the Netflix service (I'm on the trial period but I'm going to keep it probably) to actually get the disk shipped.

My big question and I haven't been able to see this anywhere, is it going to allow for HD streaming like the Xbox 360 does?
Nice picture of a Mac Pro logic board.
You can also check Air Video Server [$2.99 on the App Store]. It's amazing, you can stream your movies (I have a ton of 1080p .mkv files) that I stream to the iPhone. It also can stream it to your iPhone outside your home network (you just need to open up a port on the Airport Extreme).

It's totally worth the $$. I love the app and use it reguarly. I have my Mac Pro as my server with all my files located on a 1 TB G-Drive external.

http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/download.html
I'm guessing people would be more likely to carry a FW800 cable around, but wouldn't it be more efficient to use a crossover Cat-5e cable?

I mean, most current Macs come with a Gigabit ethernet port anyways. Good idea though.
@UnixSystemsEngineer that's not bad, but would you get a IO bottleneck on a hard drive with 70-80 MB/s read speeds? I'm not doubting you, just wondering if I should do the same with my setup.

As for Handbrake, I've heard that they don't plan on making it 64-bit, the libraries they use stem from x264 and that for the most part, they are already multi-core aware. Since x264 is open source, they would have to see if they adopt OpenCL, which I would hope they would. If they won't someone else will.
What bothers me is the fact that it's using FW400/800. SSD sequential read and write speeds are bottle capped by the direct SATA II interface... why would you want to use FW800 on an external SSD? I say might as well buy a 1 TB external.

As for boot drives, well that's a different story. I can tell a HUGE difference when transferring files from Drive Bay 1 to Drive Bay 2 in my Mac Pro.
Does anyone think Jobs pulled it because he's pissed about the leak that occurred a couple of weeks ago? "Technical difficulties" my ass, it could have been done. I think he'll skip this revision and add it next time with more features. People will just buy an iPhone or iPod nano anyways. That's just my opinion.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"With all the new multitouch capable monitors coming out, which one is the best? With the release of Windows 7 I really want a touchscreen monitor for my desktop. I'm looking to get a Full HD monitor that supports multitouch and can still look great during gaming and movies. Which one has the best specs for the price?"

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