Steve Jobs' legendary "reality distortion field" was operating at full power at the recent Macworld Conference & Expo held January 9 to 13 in San Francisco.

Only a promoter like Jobs, cofounder and CEO at Apple Computer, could get a worshipful ovation for announcing a flawed product.

OK, I might be exaggerating, just a bit. The soon-to-be sold MacBook laptop running on an Intel microprocessor, the item to which I refer here, will ship without a built-in modem - a thoroughly bizarre ...