My early '08 macbook pro is mostly used when plugged in. As such, it only had 16 cycles after 14 months of use. Still it got about 4 hours from the battery when unplugged (one week before installing SL). Installed SL and the first time I tried to use it unplugged afterwards it died in 25 minutes without any warning. Thinking it was some kind of OS bug, I tried to boot it again and 10 seconds into the boot sequence it went black again. The battery LEDs indicated 80% charge remaining. Visited the 'genius' at the Apple store who started to give me some line about 'cycling' the battery (hey, these are Li-ion batteries right?) and I told him I would not be happy about having to pay for a new battery. He ended up giving me a new battery and all seems fine now, but this has to be more than a coincidence with all of the other reports I'm seeing on the web. Add this to the fact that SL killed the printer/scanner configuration on ALL the macs in our house (we have a Canon all in one on the network) and I have to say that Apple may be having some quality control problems. It's definitely shaking my confidence that Apple's QC is better than Microsoft's.

Good point. FusionIO is using PCI express x8 for their SSD and it's rated at 1500MB (that's B, not b) per second sustained write.

In the end there may just be three memory types; on-die cache, super-fast DRAM, and persistent flash.

With networks getting fast enough to eliminate the need for optical disks to transport data, we may soon see the day of computers with no moving parts (except maybe the keyboard).

Oh God, here we go with the Java bashing againg!

Dude, it's just another application platform, and it works. Get over it.

WTF?! How are an iron and an espresso machine 'health and wellness' concepts?

Hospital emergency rooms, here we come!

Move.

Sell your freaking house and move three blocks. Life's too short, man.

This makes your home phones use VoIP and also supports VoIP operation for your UMA mobile phones.

UMA phones work either using 802.11 or GSM radio. When in 802.11 mode, the phone is a VoIP phone, when in GSM mode, the phone is a cell phone.

This is not a femtocell. It is a VoIP router. The cool thing is that it lets your home phones be known on the network via their own SIM cards that are held in the router.

Those phone plugs provide dial tone and other analog signals that make your home phones work properly. (The Internet connection doesn't provide any such stuff, it's all just 1s and 0s.)

The SIM cards are how your wired phones are identified... calls made to the phone number that T-mobile gives you for your wired phone will route to this router because the SIM card ties that number to your router. (They will probably let you port your existing home number over if you want to.)

So the short answer is: "Slide in your SIM card, plug in your phone, and, indeed, presto!"

I think the SIM cards are how your wired phones will get service.

UMA was designed for mobile phones, and the SIM cards in these phones define their identity in the network. So this is how the network know to route your number to the cell tower you're nearest to.

If you have a UMA-capable cell phone, when in range of this device (or any other open hot spot) your phone will register to the network that calls should now route through the Internet rather than over the cellular network.

In order to make this work for wired phones, you will need a SIM card in the router. That's why there are 2 phone line ports and two SIM slots; one for each. The SIM in the router tells the T-Mobile network to route calls to your 'wired' number to this router over the Internet. T-Mobile provides the phone number to these wired phone ports.

So, basically, the router contains up to two 'dummy' cell phones that actually use your wired phones as the audio input/output devices, and the router provides a dial tone and all the other required signaling to these wired phone ports.