One of the great things about the Dashboard Weather widget is that it gives you all facts, straight up, even when they're not the facts that you were hoping for. I first noticed the widget's "exce ive ow" mode last week, when we were hit by winter storms and once again today, with a return of the blizzard (and I don't mean the good, Dairy Queen, variety), the widget brought a smile to my face with its exce ive ow cover. It's the kind of whimsy in design that really points out how ecial a platform the Mac is. The small touches co tantly surprise and delight. It's a design philosophy that competes with, and in my opinion surpa es, all that is utilitarian and stodgy. Leaving aside the questio of reliability and other more conventional platform comparison concer , are you willing to pay more for such intangibles of design? I am.
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