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• After wasting and hour and a half at 3am est, I was successful at 7am. Very smooth and update my 3Gs and my wife's 3G. Surprisingly I was able to keep my unlimited data plan.

  in Apple initiates pre-orders for iPhone 4S Comment by toyin October 2011
• Wow. Apple is on fire! I went to the Apple store opening day and saw the line and headed straight home. I ordered it online and will be waiting another 2-3 weeks. Ah Cest La Vie I'm in no rush and my current iPad makes the waiting easier. P…

  in Overwhelming iPad 2 demand continues, Apple's online orders now ship in 4-5 weeks Comment by toyin March 2011
• Okay, I'm not completely crazy. It appears that I did do some research before purchasing the Crucial drive. Crucial uses Marvell instead of Sandforce as the drives controller. You can read more about it online but here are two interesting re…

  in Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta Comment by toyin February 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by AppleConvertNJRob I too am confused with choosing a 256GB SSD vs. 1TB or 2TB Serial ATA Drive for my first iMac. The capacity difference seems very drastic despite the speed you all talk about. I'm going from a 128GB S…

  in Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta Comment by toyin February 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by mebbert You all are getting me so excited for my first SSD. I'm in for a maxed out 17", courtesy of my employer! Don't get too excited. I did err. iPhoto launches in 1.5 bounces and I see the spinning circle (not…

  in Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta Comment by toyin February 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by alienzed So what is the benefit of SSDs really? I mean, I keep hearing that in practice they are no faster than conventional HDs, they can't take as many rewrite cycles and you can't retrieve deleted files. Did I menti…

  in Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta Comment by toyin February 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by myapplelove how do you go about doing that if I may ask? I could use it on my airs flash. I haven't done this and I'm not sure how to do this within OSX. It can be done using Windows 7 pretty easily (google Diskpar…

  in Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta Comment by toyin February 2011
• Good news. Means I may not have to routinely restore my SSD to default configuration and re-image my drive. (Even if I do have to do this, the speed increase with the Crucial 256 ssd is astounding! Well worth yearly maintenance)

  in Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta Comment by toyin February 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I'm responding to your claim of knowing what business needs are. You might have bothered to read the article I linked to. I think they have a pretty good idea of what business needs are. That's especially t…

  in Apple reinventing file access, wireless sharing for iPad Comment by toyin April 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Business also means more than carrying many documents around. That's an awful limited understanding of business needs. http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...mac_2010-04-06 Thanks for letting us know wha…

  in Apple reinventing file access, wireless sharing for iPad Comment by toyin April 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by Broncsx3 I don't know where they have made this claim or if they have made this claim and frankly I could give a damn. The only thing I care about is if I can use it for business or not... and right now I'm leanin…

  in Apple reinventing file access, wireless sharing for iPad Comment by toyin April 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by Broncsx3 Yea, this does not work for me. I don't see how it would work for anyone that has a large office with several people working together. I'm an attorney. I have thousands of documents that me and several ot…

  in Apple reinventing file access, wireless sharing for iPad Comment by toyin April 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by iGenius The ONLY thing a tablet might be better for is reading books - the portrait mode is not practical on a netbook. Allow me to refine your statement (which I don't agree with btw) The ONLY thing a tablet mig…

  in Interest in Amazon Kindle wanes following Apple iPad unveiling Comment by toyin March 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by daving313 Time to interject some actual 'objectivity' into this thread as no one here seems to actually own a Kindle minus one or two of you, the rest seem to come up with biases for a device they've never tried (the K…

  in Interest in Amazon Kindle wanes following Apple iPad unveiling Comment by toyin March 2010
• Come on guys. Do some research before you post nonsense about the Kindle. I'm sure demand for the Kindle will drop when the iPad drops, but for now it seems to be selling well.

  in Interest in Amazon Kindle wanes following Apple iPad unveiling Comment by toyin March 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater We aren't comparing a notebook to a mobile device, we are comparing a notebook or for that matter a netbook to something this the exact same screen size as a netbook. Netbooks and notbooks by the way can …

  in Interest in Amazon Kindle wanes following Apple iPad unveiling Comment by toyin March 2010
• Bowser, are you talking about Lose It? That is an unbelievably good program. I lost 20lbs using it last year. Drove my wife crazy, because I could calculate the calories of everything we ate using the recipe function. Quote: Originally Poste…

  in Interest in Amazon Kindle wanes following Apple iPad unveiling Comment by toyin March 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater Peguin books interactive books, yeah thats a big seller. Also lets use your example what function does the iPad have over a notebook that has the Kindle software on it? The answer to that would be nothing…

  in Interest in Amazon Kindle wanes following Apple iPad unveiling Comment by toyin March 2010
• I have a Kindle DX. I love it. Love the convenience, love the text, love the feel of the thing. I went from reading 1-2 books a year, to same number per month. In fact I just read a 5 book series over the last 2 weeks (The Lost Fleet series for …

  in Interest in Amazon Kindle wanes following Apple iPad unveiling Comment by toyin March 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by TEKSTUD Thank you- and no amount of spin here or from Apple will change that. It's basiclly an extension of the iTunes store (an iPod) and, even worse, a hobby exactly like the Apple TV (another iPod) was when it was r…

  in Bill Gates unimpressed by Apple iPad Comment by toyin February 2010
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