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Thanks for the added info. I wasn't aware that Apple offered new Macs to some owners of buzzy TAMs; bravo to them for doing so!

I think you're reading some negativeness into my overview that isn't there. I don't say that the buzz problem affected unusually large numbers of TAM owners; I don't know the percentages. It may have been a "normal" small percentage. It was real, though, and very hotly discussed on TAM forums. It was a problem with unusually high visibility, simply because it hit the TAM squarely in its marquee feature, its (otherwise) great sound system. A flaw in, say, the keyboard or power supply (to make up examples) wouldn't have been nearly as newsworthy.

I make no claim that Apple should have included USB; that wasn't possible, as you note. I only correct another writer (earlier on this page) who said that the TAM does have USB, and I lament (on later pages) that the TAM and USB didn't overlap. Sure would have been nice if they did overlap, and the TAM had been a showcase for USB. Oh well.

In any case, yes, the TAM is flawed but wonderful. Wonderful enough that I bought one, and am now writing odes to it online, and dream of upgrading my TAM internally so it can once again assume rightful command of the desk!

Thanks for writing!