Editor's Letter: Homecoming

In each issue of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in news.

Another week is over, dear readers, and it's been an eventful one for me. I spent a few days in Detroit, wrapping up some testing for the AOL Autos Technology of the Year award, to be given out at CES in just over a month. This means I got a little seat time in some spectacular autos like the Audi S7 and Chrysler 300C SRT8, sampling some amazing new infotainment and safety technologies - and some terrible ones, too. Which stood out? You'll have to wait for the CES awards ceremony to find out.

Otherwise, it was a reasonably quiet week in news, but some of the biggest stories came just as we're heading to press. Apple CEO Tim Cook, in an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, gave a little clarity to the mystery of the "Assembled in USA" iMacs. He confirmed this isn't just an anomaly, that Apple is planning on bringing assembly of one of its "existing Mac lines" to the States. Which line, exactly, remains to be seen, but the iMac would be a logical choice, since it's already being run in limited numbers in the US. The Mac Pro also makes sense, a low-volume machine that features (relatively) simple construction.

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