Yeah I have heard all the Iphone hate before, but its not all about straight features of the phone. The iphone integrates with the average persons life better. You can go tohotels with clock radios with docking stations, most people have a ipod/iphone hookup in their car already, the apps grow by an insane amount every day, theres far more accessories for them then any other phone, the fit and finish is very nice for a $200 phone, for the size of the screen and what its capable of it fits in the pocket fairly easily. IMO the only real down side to it is that its only offered by ATT which suck major bawlz imo. Its also nice that its offered by a company that listens to their customers. Many *****ed about the small keyboard, and so they are now offering the landscape keyboard, same with the camera, etc. I mean they are over 21 million sold now, and thats with them only offering it through att here in the states. The razor sold 110million over a span of like 6 or 7 years and after its first few months was offered by every company.

Owning a phone isnt just about raw features and capabilities. Just like cars, other things come into play.. Face it if it was all about performance then you guys would all own Evo's

 

i love mac hardware but i hate the software.

I have had nothing but problems with 10.5 and iphone 2.0, its just ****.

 

My IBM T42 purchased in 2003 is still working fine with no issues. It's used every day. My IBM ThinkPad 600X purchased in '98 was working fine till I gave it away with my RS as I used it mostly as a garage PC and primarily for erasing my MILs due to my exhaust... My pops is still using his Toshiba lappy purchased in 2001, working fine though running Ubuntu now. My sister still has her Dell 8200 or whatever purchased in 2001 which is working fine.

Probably find a few more if I actually started looking since these are in my direct family, and that's not including any server gear (a company I supported still has around 450 of the original 750 Dell 2450-6450 series and Hewlett-Compaqard DL series servers installed in 2002 plus another "low priority loadfarm" that is actually still running on dual PIII 550 HP LPr servers purchased in '99). So I guess that's "a lot" in regards to your question.

I also have a PowerMac G4 which I used to use more often until someone gave me a brand new Dell for my work machine. I would rather have a new PowerMac for sure, but cannot argue with a brand new lappy for free since it's actually pretty nice (used to hate Dells but this one seems to not really suck so far). It's also the only machine I have seen in a loooong time w/ a serial port so I was just out using CarCode to check ECU codes on a friend's WRX, something I cannot do with either my Mac or my IBM. There is no "perfect" or "right" computer but some people sure seem to think there is.

Apples are pretty, and the new billet PowerMacs are awesome. I started using Apples first and stuck with them till around '98 or so when my work took me away from them and it wasn't worth the expense to purchase one on my own, then I got my G4 in around 2006 I think. I won't lie, if I had the cash I would go right out and purchase a 15" MacBook Pro to replace my G4 and the Dell right now, but - I have loads of other things that list a higher priority in my life at the moment. The next time I am supporting anything close to another worldwide datacenter deployment though, you can bet I will be supporting it with a Mac which is hands-down a more capable machine for certain things like running multiple Win instances whilst connected to enough other devices that would make my Dell poo itself.

 

No worries. 10.6 is right around the corner for under 30 bucks to upgrade.

Iphone 3.0 is due today and is a free upgrade for iphones, 20 bucks for touch.

I've already used snow leopard while in development. It seems to be a worthy upgrade to the structure of leopard.

I have 3.0(gold master) jailbroken but not sim unlocked on my iphone3G. I also use the ininja theme.
http://www.modmyi.com/forums/new-ski...me-ninjas.html
It gets better battery life, faster camera refresh, an updated safari, better radio firmware, less bugs for sure.

 

the Ibm T-series were built like tanks. You could bash and abuse them and they would still survive. But thennnn they sold out to lenovo. They are not the tanks they once were. Lenovo is a decent notebook but I wouldnt say any better than hp, dell, etc.

Typing this on a mac book pro which runs leopard, vmware fusion for ubuntu, winblows XP, and windows 7 RC(gotta support it one day so i may as well learn it), and bootcamps into a custom build of XP for when i wanna play pc only 3d games/audio apps.

 

Lame. I don't have that kind of time!!

 

3.0 should still hit today. That report was miss information. It was intended for Singapore not us.

 

Make 'em hurry! I want this before I leave town.

 

circa 2001 Compaq Presario 2500 running Ubuntu

 

you do realize that snow leopard is just a rework of a cluttered operating system right? not saying it's not gonna be an awesome update, but it's certainly not gonna be like going from tiger to leopard in differences.

which is why it is so cheap. hell they should give this update out for free if anything.

but i have to say, i want badly to find a way to get the $1200 13.3" macbook pro.. that's PERFECT. stupid college student income...

 

All major apps running 64bit is enough to justify my $29, plus it frees up a small amount of space and a little performance increase.. I'll take it without complaint.

 

i guess so cause im updating now

 

they need to hurry up and release higher gig ipod touches.

8gigs for $250... seriously.