Instead, I want Apple to focus on including X11 and Xcode by default. It's so frustrating to not have the X11 SDK for an application, or to be lacking GCC for MacPorts.

Leopard does include X11 by default.

I understand your desire to have XCode/GCC/X11 SDK in there too...your average MacBook Air may use the X11 runtime, but is wasting 2% of their limited storage on devtools a wise move? Printer drivers on the other hand are out of control, I hope Snow Leopard supports 95% of printers with GNUPrint/PostScript/PCL and make those gigs of proprietary drivers optional or net-based install-on-demand.

Call Toshiba and see if they'll lend you an R500. It's got a dual mode LED/transflective LCD screen (12") which will let you stretch the battery life to 7-8+ hrs during daylight because it'll use the ambient light instead of the biggest battery drain on most laptops, the screen backlight. It's available with SSD/mobile broadband so that should keep you from needing a second communications device.

Also, if you get them to lend you one, email me, through a fluke I've got an unused new R500 battery that I could lend you for use on your trip.

Also, the first submission of my comment failed the first time around and logged me out, wtf?

Here's a link to the National Holocaust Museum's site for this exhibit:
http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/highlights/auschwitz/

In addition to more detail and commentary there's large versions of all
116 photos from Karl Höcker's Aushwitz Album, as well as original page images for the entire scrapbook..