Links for Thursday November 6^th, 2008

• Apple Watch - Corporate - Apple Fiscal 2008 by the Numbers: Apple's desktop business is still looking to be pretty healthy, so maybe it will be awhile before Apple exits desktops entirely. It's certianly looking like we'll see some new desktops at January's MacWorld expo - certainly new Mac Pros with an Intel Core i7 CPU (a.k.a. "Nehalem"). Also hoping for something new on the Mac mini front -- I don't think that a total redesign is out of the question (it could explain why there has been such a delay in updates for this little guy).

• geeksugar's Guide to Mini Notebooks! | geeksugar - Technology, Gadgets,: A nice roundup of the current netbooks on the market (save for the Lenovo S10), from geeksugar. That HP Mini 1000 is still looking mighty tempting.

• John Doerr’s Advice for Barack Obama: Hire Bill Joy - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: I'm not sure about hiring Bill Joy, but we do need to reform immigration, especially for those that graduate from a US university. Money quote:
  

  
  “What we do is bring foreign nationals to the world’s greatest universities. We train them, invest in them and make them go home,” he said. “What kind of national strategy is that? So I would staple a green card to the diploma.”
  

• Boston Review — Richard M. Stallman: Not Free at Any Price: While I don't always agree with Richard Stallman, I am pretty happy for the free software movement, and he does make many excellent points with regards to OLPC.