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Cool design, good price point (esp compared to some hubs), quiet and fast. Impressed.

I may not like PCs (well, Windows), but even I would have to admit that moving from a PC to an iPad is not an upgrade. They are totally different things. As Tim Cook appears to advocate, an iPad is not a 'computer' - I could not possibly imagine doing my research work on it, or running Mathematica on it, or writing a serious paper on it.

I have noticed that iPads are very popular with 5 to 10 year olds:  the parents give it to them to shut the kids up, and they doodle away with it on the couch (instead of sitting in front of the idiot box).

Don't need a new form; don't need new peripherals. Just a new mini + a monitor to hook it up with.

Unfortunately soli, your entire premise is completely confused. Almost every hotel room is wired with ethernet. It is THE standard for networking. Long after Thunderbolt is gone, just like Firewire and Geoport and ADB and all the other transitory connectors have gone, Ethernet will still be the standard because it is EVERYWHERE and connects everything. The arguments about 10G Ethernet today are exactly the same ones I heard about 1gig ethernet when it came out (who needs it?, you would have to be in media to want it, my internet connection isn't that fast etc etc), and the same arguments about 100Mb Cat 5 before that. My electrician laughed at me when I installed Cat6 cable when Cat5 was the norm ... 'you will never need it' ... now it is the standard. And it is a delight for streaming those Bluray movies and Time Machine backups to a remote room. It keeps on evolving, keeps on getting faster, and has shown amazing robustness for growth over the same Cat 6 or Cat6e cables, and is the most versatile medium for robust and safe connections for printing, security cameras, phones, server streaming -- everything. You just plug anything in, anywhere, on the same network, in any configuration, and everything just talks to everything. 

cecil444 said:

Ugh. Why are there so many iPhone size queens out there?! Newsflash: A 6” screen is not an SE; it’s a completely different phone. The iPhone SE is by definition a compact form factor with ~4” screen. 

Agreed. At the point the article started talking about a 6 inch SE, I realised it was just gibberish, and probably put out by someone in the channel trying to get people to still buy the old SE, rather than wait for the new model to appear. I think we will see the new SE announced by the end of June.