Posts by matt_s

Quote: Originally Posted by mcarling It's perfectly obvious how Dell can make a laptop thinner than the MacBook Air. Just drop the HDD and mount the flash directly on the motherboard. Yeah but I'll bet the Dell unit has more than one...

Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Huh. Well, in that you see ATT's refusal to sell you an iPhone without a data plan to be evidence of some kind of creeping totalitarianism, I suspect we're never going to see eye to eye on...

Quote: Originally Posted by addabox I'm sure it's trivially easy, but then it wouldn't be the iPhone that Apple wants to sell, would it? I'd prefer a laptop without a glossy screen, but it looks like I'm shit out of luck, with Apple....

Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Yeah, I get that "some people" might want to save some money and get an iPhone without a data plan, but that's not the device that Apple is interested in, as far as I can see. I think...

Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Just out of curiosity, what plan is that? The cheapest data plan on T-Mobile's website is $39.99. And I can't see anything that looks like 5,000 minutes for $39.99-- $39.99 appears to get you 600...

Quote: Originally Posted by kris.white Fewer people are going to buy a $700 iPhone to take anywhere than a $199 iPhone locked with a local carrier. You're probably right. However, my wife & I have decided to buy unlocked iPhones...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gxcad Actually, as of halfway through November, it is the best selling PHONE (in the USA). The irony is if the phone wasn't tethered to AT&T, Apple might have already driven Microsoft & Palm out of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bruce Young Good points Matt. I agree, iCal in Tiger was WAYYYY more efficiently designed and user-friendly -- Elegant, info instantly available, visible, editable. In fact, I dreaded making and changing...

Quote: Originally Posted by aaarrrgggh Don't use it myself, but have you tried MYOB? I'm starting to think that there just really isn't any good accounting software for non-accountants, period! We've been using MYOB in our business...

Quote: Originally Posted by aplnub I doubt anyone held a gun to Papermaster's head when he signed the contract. So the better question is, why do people sign these things? Ah, a voice of reason. IBM has a policy to protect the...