That said, we're taking some Friday solace in one of the download links below, where you can grab a brand spankin' new issue of your very own.

ENGADGET: Distro Issue 50: the travel edition packs geotagging and offline navigation

If "barebones" isn't quite your style, Apple has a spankin' 4, 976, 640 configurations to choose from, ramping up to a ATi Radeon 1900 or Quadro FX 4500 GPU, 16GB of RAM and 2TB of disk space.

ENGADGET: Apple unveils dual Xeon-based Mac Pro

Our spankin' new fully-loaded 24-inch fourth gen iMac just arrived via FedEx, so for those that can't get enough of the most aluminum and glass clad Apple PC to date, we've got a ton of pics for you to pore over.

ENGADGET: Apple 4G iMac: first unboxing, impressions Hands-on

Sure, we knew 4x4 was on the way, and we had an idea AMD was prepping a fancy new "Quad FX" moniker for the spankin' new chipsets, but we were still waiting for the stamp of legitimacy, which just came in the form of an AMD unveil this morning in Japan.

ENGADGET: Here comes Quad FX: AMD's 4x4 platform gets "official"

Naturally, Intel doesn't only want you to watch those brand spankin' new 1080p movies on your laptop screen -- it is pushing WiDi in a big way, and the second generation, which will be baked into new Core 2011 systems, will support 1080p streaming and will eventually enable streaming of protected content, including DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

ENGADGET: Intel to launch Insider movie service with 1080p content, WiDi 2.0 will let you stream it to your TV