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Right now M$ is throwing $250 million at their advertising campaign for WinXP. I would much rather Apple put money towards R&D than an advertising campaign. If we are going to have the Apple *appliances* that we all dream of, then the Cupertino boys have to pump some steam into the R&D...

hehe, they are ZOOMING away from the troubles that Windows brings them. :p FaRuvius

But unless it is a stepping stone to a much cooler PDA, then it is pretty much useless. 24 hours in a day. 11 of those I am at work, or driving to and from work. The rest of the time, I am at home, sleeping, or out doing something where listening to music is not necessary. So I either...

A couple of guys here have new iPaq's (h3670's with the cool piggy back PCMCIA slot with 802.11 cards stuffed in) and they look pretty sweet. Being able to sync one of these with my office computer AND my mac at home would be awesome. Yet another reason for me to get airport at home...

I use AOL's official client and now Adium. I used to use Fire, but i don't have any use for ICQ/MSN/etc. So I switched to Adium, which focuses on AOL. My girlfriend has AOL at home, so I have the official AOL client loaded so that she is comfortable IM'ing from my place. If someone has...

I develop software for a company and industry that is very locked into Windows, and to a lesser amount UNIX. I have been seriously considering buying a PC to sit next to my 2 Macs at home, just so that I can dial-in and work from home. WindowsXP is the reason that I will not be buying a...

The term <b><i>warez</i></b> specifically refers to software that IS NOT freeware AND obtained illegally. So you either have no warez, or you are using the term "freeware" much too loosely :D FaRuvius ====================== "Free as in free beer, <i>not</i> Free as in free speech."

But I imagine that while you only have 3 apps open right now, you have opened 15 - 20 apps since you last rebooted. Windows does a similar thing, where it caches (in RAM or page files) the code neccessary to start the app, so the next time you start it, it starts much faster. This is why the...

If this actually goes anywhere. Very cool idea. But the only downside of this whole thing? <i>there still aren't any games for the ps2!!</i> Now before you all flame me, YES I own a PS2. I have 7 titles for it, and of those, the only games that <b>I</B> deem worth playing are...

Jeez, is it *THAT* important that you have it now? I'm not saying that I have never used pirated software, but I don't run around broadcasting that fact. FaRuvius ========================== "But I paid for the CD I burned it on!"

While the iBook is really tempting, I really don't have the need for a portable right now. The next machine I will by will be a PowerMac. Not of the current generation, of course, but whatever the next revision. Definite musts: dual (or quad :drool: ) processors. DVD-R, I'm waiting for...

I believe that the newer macs have the sound input over a USB port. All that is required is a USB microphone. FaRuvius

I encountered that problem once. After about 2 months of my Linksys 4port 10/100 router feeding 3 machines (2 mac, 1 PC), one weekend the connection got really spotty. Streaming audio (www.digitallyimported.com :D) would need to be buffered every few minutes, and web surfing would crap out...

Disregard the chemicals that are floating in the air around my head, but I am searching for a meaning in all of this iPod hoopla. <B>My Idea:</b> The iPod as a testing ground for a PDA's + Laptops. What is an easy, inexpensive way to test out the underlying components/OS for an insanely...

How about 1/3 of an iBook? If apple charges $400 for the mp3 player, I don't WANT the PDA, cause that will cost like $800. I doubt Apple breaks 100k/sales on this item. FaRuvius

You guys pay 20% sales tax?:eek: I guess that's the price for universal health care, eh FaRuvius

Archos jukebox 6000 and the Creative Nomad, which both have 6gb of storage and a similar navigation system to the pod, can be had for under $300. While the nomad is much larger, the archos jukebox is roughly the same size as the iPod. And, iPod spelled backwords is DOPI FaRuvius

WOW. What a disappointment. a) definitely NOT breakthrough. Yeah, it advances current technology, but not breakthrough by ANY means. b) this whole MP3 thing is getting tired. The Rio came out like <b>3 YEARS AGO</b>. I'm tired of Apple touting a technology as "the best thing ever"...

From the Apple Store: <B>"Transfer an ENTIRE CD in less than 10 seconds"</b> How is it possible to encode an entire CD in 10 seconds? It takes 2 - 3 seconds just to spinup the damn thing. $400? too much to be really competitive. The Creative Nomad stores 6 gb for $250. FaRuvius

How on earth is this a <b>"breakthrough digital device?"</b> I certainly hope there is more to it than this. FaRuvius