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After just recently updating my links page to add links provided by my research design students on how to prepare slides and do presentations, I stumbled on this presentation by Apple’s Steve Jobs on their new line of notebooks. I think this is a very nice example of a good presentation, even if selling a commercial product is not quite the same thing as presenting academic research. The slides are well designed and bare in content; the presentation is clear and to the point; etc. - it all holds as well for academic presentations.

Providing the link is also strong advocacy of Apple’s notebooks, of course, which are indeed great machines, but they’re also totally over-priced. I’m still hooked, but sometimes I wish Linux or FreeBSD would just make a little quicker progress in becoming user-friendly, so that people can buy well-designed (!) PC laptops and install a nice operating system on it. (My reason for liking the Mac so much is: 1) the operating system is based on BSD, so I can use all my Linux tools that I like; 2) it is a zillion times easier to install hardware than on a Linux system, even easier than on a Windows system; 3) the laptops look nice; 4) the laptops have flashy screens, to my knowledge only comparable to the Sony VAIO’s.)

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