It was very nice of Apple to introduce the 13-inch version of the MacBook Pro earlier this year, even if it didn’t have some of the features that typically demand the “Pro” moniker. Given this blurring of the lines, we’re left to wonder what the team in Cupertino has planned for the regular old MacBook. That plastic wonder needs an upgrade too, doesn’t it? As you know, the regular white MacBook is still being sold in Apple Stores, but most people have moved on to its aluminum successor.

This is the second installment in a three-part series on One-Star Customer Reviews at Amazon.com (hat tip Johnny Dee ). Below are excerpts from dozens of Amazon.com Customer Reviews of noteworthy rock albums. In each critique, the author ascribes a lowly One Star to an album that normally maintains Five-Star status in the artistic canon. Most of these critically-motivated non-professionals would have eagerly awarded zero stars if given the opportunity.

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Section: Apple News , Updates , Rumors , Software + Apps , Home and Personal , Operating Systems , Leopard , OS-X With Snow Leopard set to release this Friday, August 28th, many Apple fans are excited to both try it out and get some space back on their hard drive. Also, if you’re like me, you don’t really care that it doesn’t include any great, new features as long as it promises to be as stable and fast as Apple promises.