Can you clarify if it did let two spams through as legitimate or were two legitimate messages filtered as SPAM?

I'd be tolerant of two SPAMs getting through once in a while, based on some new trick; but after using it since 2003 and countless trained messages missing two legitimate messages would frustrate me enormously. Trolling through SPAM to find legitimate messages is a waste time.

@Ryan

I don't know that CDMA is dying.

Living in metropolitan areas it is very easy to overlook that ATT / GSM coverage is too limited in many more rural states for people to buy an Iphone. Lots of areas have CDMA only and people can't expect the GSM network to grow, because it would never be cost-effective. Certainly not in the short term. We've nary seen a network change anywhere.

One of our friends just got an iPhone and switched to ATT from Verizon, not realizing she just basically cut her coverage area in half, if not worse. She was shocked that at her place of employment for instance: no signal. Oh yeah ... more bars in more places.

We get verizon cellphone service and broadband access where an iPhone is already out of range for an hour.

And note that I'm not a verizon drone or apologist. There's plenty of dislike from us to go around about some of Verizon's practices, rates and fees. I'd be a lot happier with less expensive service options. But it is what it is, and at least we are satisfied with their coverage area.

Unless we could put an iPhone on Verizon, I seriously doubt we'd get one.

Wait ... we have to pay extra for the app that should have been included in the first place?

So much for supporting your existing clients that suffer through software issues & limitations.

I agree that the price point should be lower. Certainly the basic bandwith package is ridiculous from both the MB & the price. 5GB is fine for casual road use when you have a main line at home.

Device change requests:
- signal strength indication LEDs
- battery level indication LEDs
- bandwith used LCD
... or all in one via small LCD?

Which could just be on at the press of a button for a minute, to preserve battery power.

I mainly use our MiFi in rural areas / on the road. There is no way of telling whether the placing of the device is ideal for the circumstances. I use a basic Nokia CDMA phone to check the signal strength, which can vary between nothing and 2-3 bars depending on the direction of the nearest tower and building. For me, ideally, there would be about 5 LEDs that indicate the reception level: red (no signal / connection), orange (connected, but barely), green (good, better, excellent)

We know it it supposed to last 4 hours to a charge, but unless you keep track of it or keep it plugged in, you won't know what the exact battery level is. A small button that briefly shows 4 LEDs indicating a charge of 0-25-50-75-100% would be great.

Provide a way to track data usage on the device. A small LCD ~ tripmeter is needed when you have something that supports 5 devices and tiny data plans with expensive overages ... and no way of tracking usage, unless you plug it into the main system via USB that has verizon manager installed. Plus, for us, that data usage report is about two days behind. Certainly 256MB for a month would be grossly inadequate for even minimal use, and is a recipe for overage fees and/or getting you kicked of the system. That's why we have the 5GB plan. Still, with a slew of automatic updates on a couple of portable systems, we are seriously concerned about that precious bandwith, and so we temporarily disable updates to help with that.

Don't automatically turn the device on when it is plugged in.

Provide an option to disable SMS. Within the first weeks we had several people SMS-ing the previous owner of our MiFi's cell # ... at 20c a pop. Fortunately Verizon was kind to disable it and refund every message. Still 20 minutes we shouldn't have spent on the phone.

I decided to give iWeb '09 a try because of its FTP publishing.

After an initial slow publication of an album with two images, I have yet to be able to publish again. It keeps throwing connection errors ... saying something is wrong. All while I can be logged in via FTP to the same server using another app. In fact I have been logged into that server for almost a week straight without issues. Connection is fine, internet is fine, server is fine ... yet iWeb has been uncooperative for over an hour now.

What good is iWeb if it won't publish?

Superimposed text reads:

" Hundreds of people died last year by trying this at the US Mexico border "

Don't ignore the fact that a PowerMac G5 outclasses the bulk of the first generation of intel products, apart from the mac pro, by generalizing the CD & C2D chips as being one and the same.

a dual & quad Processor 64bit G5 runs better than 32 bit CD macbooks, minis, iMacs etc.

G3 < G4 < CD < G5 < C2D

I have a PowerMac DP 2.5 G5 and MacBook CD. While the CPU of the MB may be better on paper and inch out in certain calculations by a few seconds, the macbook can't cut it because it is built around laptop components, slow hard drive, slow optical drive, ...

For those who bought a > $3k DP or QC G5 machines right before the Intel announcement; dropping PPC support for 10.6 Snow Leopard (which sounds to be basically a stability & performance release) is not a good announcement.

I can fully understand that a G3 has been dropped already and a G4 would be dropped, but dropping the G5 which performs better than most of Apple's 1st generation Intel machines ... plain old sucks. For those who think Intel is better, check the macworld benchmark numbers, the G5s are workhorses that get the job done. I will take a G5 any day over a 1st gen Intel macbook, iMac, mac mini which are hampered by slower busses, hard drives, etc.

I can only hope plenty of individuals and businesses that made a serious investments in G5 systems will give Apple some feedback.

6-bit or 8-bit? Viewing angles?