Dear Friends,

It’s Edward Shepard writing this week for Don, who is is down in Austin, Texas hoping to score a position playing upright bass in a honkey tonk band. What follows is a very long issue of Kibbles and Bytes, as it was a big, big week in Apple news. On Monday, Apple reported blockbuster Q4 financial results. On Wednesday, Apple held an exciting “Back to the Mac” press conference (covered in detail below).

Apple press conferences are a major event here at Small Dog. We joke that they’re like the nerd Superbowl. The big news from the press conference was an updated system architecture for the MacBook Air, a groundbreaking new ultra-compact 11-inch MacBook Air, and iLife ’11, which is a substantial update to Apple’s very popular multimedia production suite.

In other news, I wanted to apologize about the contest platform we were using for our Office: 2011 drawing. After people entered the contest, they then had to unsubscribe from future offers from that company. It is a longstanding, permanent policy that Small Dog Electronics will never sell email addresses provided by our customers or subscribers to our newsletters. This contest platform blurred the lines of that policy and thus we will never use their services again.

Instead, we will be running a new drawing for Office: Mac 2011 next week. Everyone who entered will be automatically be entered into this drawing, and everyone else who didn’t enter or didn’t want to enter with the previous service will have a chance to enter to win as well. Again, I am sorry about the confusion with that.

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