Posts by macinthe408

Will this mean that in the US, a 16G iPhone will really be a 13G one due to what has to be huge handwriting recognition system files? What if I'm not Chinese nor need the functionality? Can I disable, and thus delete, the files?...

Quote: A Morgan Stanley report from February had suggested that the more than half a billion in expenditures related to usage of Jobs' jet for the three month period ending December Half a billion?! That's $500 million! Previously in...

Is the OS linked with legacy code to an HDD? Couldn't the OS be rewritten to benefit from the advantages an SDD provides? Since reads are a lot faster on an SDD, why not optimize the OS for random reads? No such thing as...

Blackberry users are typically buttoned-up-shirt tightwads who work at companies with a org chart bigger than the government. They usually the middle aged, overworked husband with two children whose wife heads the PTA and whose kids'...

Quote: and three said the Mac offered a "worse experience." What a biased experiment. This is completely false. Who in their right mind would rate the Mac experience worse than the Windows experience?!

Hmmm, can someone buy one of these computers and put it through some stringent reliability tests? That would be worth its weight in gold if we can glean some significant reliability data on these clones to see if they walk the walk....

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider IBM out at the company's research centre in San Jose, Calif.] Haha. I just rode my mountain bike by there today at lunchtime. I didn't see anything going on from the outside that would...

I'm an avid mountain biker. If they could release something that could integrate Google Maps with a training application on the Nano/iPhone/whatever, that would be awesome.

This is excellent. My wife and I were searching for yet another device to add to our multimedia arsenal that requires yet another monthly subscription fee. Since TiVo, Apple TV (iTunes), Comcast, at&t, Netflix don't suck enough...

This system reminds me of those idiots who waste $5.00 in gas to drive across town to get it at $.03 cheaper per gallon, thereby saving $0.00. Would the rate differences between carriers--at different times of the day even!--be...