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I though I read that had been improved. I must say I am leaning towards the 13" because of RAM, because of lack of VB scripting in Mac Excel I need to run Windows excel fairly often and 2GB of RMA is not good for the virtualisation. (I like the ability of being able to go up to 8 as well).

ok the tab close buttons only appearing on mouseover are fucking annoying.

I'm just taking the risk and installing it.

The Javascript in ILX doesn't seem faster.

It is on the phone; bloody hell it's a lot faster.

Text handling's still quite mucky, though: carat too thick, leading too loose.

the tabs are too bevelled. I liked the way they looked before.

Hey guys? I'm in the US for a couple days and I want to get a $99 iPhone and take it back to Kenya with me. But I don't understand the whole AT&T thing. Are they impossible to buy without an AT&T contract? Would it need to be unlocked?

impossible to buy without opening a contract from the apple store, i believe?

Ok. Maybe I'll see if a friend wants to unload one.

it automatically orients any map to the direction you are facing.

hot

yeah that is dope

£900 mbp is great

oh ha no it's not

oh jesus i have just learned that iCal won't push calendar subscriptions to either the iPhone or MobileMe

what's the point

I refer the honourable gentleman once again to the blackberry as this seems to work just fine via google.

xpost there's a workaround using busysync. a few mins to set up but works like a charm after that. obv apple should fix this tho.

http://blog.busymac.com/blog/2008/09/how-to-sync-cal.html

it's not a deal breaker, but i just witched my school calendars over to subscriptions instead of "hard copies" cuz things are getting changed all the time.

xp yeah this seems like a real no-brainer feature

thanks for that, it syncs todos which caldev doesn't, which is a missing aspect.

busysync looks nice, tho it's a little infuriating that it's not standard.

i've already got all my cals over on gcal, so

I wish I could just get the Addressbook to Google Contacts sync to work.

xpost if you've already got everything on google, then this might be all you need: http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html

oh that would be nice

at least Address Book ---> Mobile Me works

Spanning sync can fuck off with their $25 a year.

oh i'll look into that.

i've got everything on google, mostly as a backup (also gmail receives all the mail from my other accts)

OK so you can fix the Addressbook sync by adding

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GoogleContactSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/gconsync --sync com.google.ContactSync

to your crontab

well this is cool, I'll be getting an iphone as soon as my verizon contract is up in August but was hoping they'd come out with one with more storage by then, and it looks like they will. Unfortunatley this will just make my wife covet my iphone more (and she just got hers). It's too bad they don't have an upgrade or trade-in program.

what features is the rest of the world getting before AT&T? tethering and mms it?

Reasonably priced upgrades.

Does the new phone do multi-tasking apps yet? I'm guessing not.

Am not very excited by the 3GS. Nicer hardware touches, but essentially same shape an same OS with some clunky cut and paste chucked in. Pre OS is much more exciting and better-looking; this doesn't feel competitive.

man, i'm already on sprint, what to do

iPhone and verizon supposedly not to far away.

Fantastic the 13" has firewire 800, that makes up my mind, all I need now is to get paid and I can get 1x13" with 500GB storage and a free iPod Nano.

iPhone and verizon supposedly not to far away.

and sadly way more expensive.

Pre-ordered two of the 32 gig iPhone 3Gs's today. It was a no brainer for me, since I was still on the 1st generation iPhone. I'd probably think twice if I already had the 3G version.

im still on 1st gen and seriously considering this too

trust me this is wrong. it was almost right but then wasnt.

oh i meant for "iPhone and verizon supposedly not to far away."

guess i'm going to wait and see what they're like in the flesh. $200 + an extra $10/month over my 1st gen is basically $20/month after taxes, and i'm not sure there's anything in there that's an immediate jump; i don't feel like i lack storage, don't miss the 3G or GPS, i've got a flip... so it's going to be a question of whether the speed and the accumulation of details is enough.

email/calendar/contacts syncs up perfectly with google on the iphone, for what it's worth, as remarked above.

I love the GPS and I'll be glad to not be tied to my Blackberry that has it now. Well, I still be tied to it, but for entirely different reasons.

I'm getting worried that I screwed myself - I'm on AT&T already, my contract ran out in December, and I got a new cheap-ass phone because my old one's battery died. Sales person at AT&T store assured me that it would be fine with upgrading to an iphone this summer, no problem, it's cool, etc. BUT the AT&T site says I'm not "upgrade eligible" until August 2010 and therefore a new iphone is gonna cost me $200 more.

I wonder what my chances are of getting them to waive this.

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That's what I'm guessing / fearing.

13" MBP looks k-awesome, especially when I realized that my current laptop is 12". It'll be huge!

OK I think I might have changed my mind completely after realising that 3G qualifies for educational discount on monthly charges, so our phone bill would be pretty much the same, I think. Suddenly it's turning into a no-brainer for me too.

Can't see any reason to switch from 3G to 3GS. Is the tom-tom app only gonna work on the new phone or is it linked to the new OS?

still toying with the pre, just because i'm on sprint and the monthly plan is waaaaaaay cheaper. like, save several hundreds of dollars over the course of two years cheaper.

but feature-wise it seems pretty impoverished, compared to 3gs

$80/month is like the cheapest ATT plan, right? Or the cheapest usable one?

O2 aren't letting people break contracts to go from 3G to 3GS, so if you bought a 3G on day one last year like I did, no upgrade until January next year. By which point it'll almost be time for the next batch of new ones anyway.

Twitterverse seemse pretty livid about it (search #o2fail), pretty unimpressed myself. Their advice to pissed off 3G owners? "Just install 3.0, it'll give you most of the new functionality!"