I had no problems on 8.x before os x 10.6, which broke it COMPLETELY. I had 3-4 seconds of audio, then 1-2 seconds of silence. I was hoping Itunes 9 would fix it, no luck at that point. No problem in win7 on the same machine off the same external hdd.
10.6.1 sorted me right out, now i only lose connection every hour or so, which is realistically unacceptable, but I'm just so happy to have something that resembles working I'll take it for now. But it is a major mess that needs to be sorted out. I bought the device mainly for that functionality (I also needed a wireless AP for my 360, and since the APE was about the same price as the adapter which only does that, i went for sweet wireless music), and i bet a lot of other people did as well. A lot of these people have just been left in the dark by Apple.
Not really, it is a technology desgined to, at least sometimes, decrease power consumption by putting the main GPU in an off-state and letting an onboard light graphics chip do the wok, and only switch the big one on the help there - so the perfomance gains over just the normal GFX may be negligible, but seeing as you only have an onboard chip on while browsing etc, which is a lot of time, the power advantages can be quite substantial. At least theoretically...
I don't think this will have as much of an impact as some people say.
1; I have no confirmation of this, but i THINK that the ppl who was sent home without activated phones won nothing; I don't think the process is as you yanks are used to. Here in Ireland, for example, the first gen iPhones were sold only in O2 stores and Carphone Warehouse, also pretty big retailer. They were not sold with a sim in-box, but you had to buy one with the phone. So, in order to even get a phone you signed and activated a plan straight up. You then went home and still had to activate the phone with an O2 sim in it. Some of my mates did that with an O2 pay-as-you go card, but there is not really much point in that - you can not get around the plan as it is already activated.
2; I think there is quite a lot of security around the apps in the store. Even if there is not, and they end up in the installer, how many people of all the millions of customers do you think, realistically does this? It does infringe copyright, your warranty etc. People don't like that. Furthermore, the same way as it has been hard finding NES roms on a repo, it will be way harder to find these - Apple will not hesitate to hunt them down. In a way it is like the ITMS. it is very possible, and very easy to get music illegally, that is not even DRM-infested. Still, business is good for Apple. Why shouldn't this be?
3; It is uncertain when this comes. As much as i trust the dev teams efforts, the video does not show any iphone 2.0 action. Only some fiddling around withvarious things you can do to 1.1.4. I must admit that that looks very sweet, and i look forward to playing with that when 2.0 is woriking, but at the moment i see no reason to believe they have it working. They may be close, but there is not proof in this video except for the icons.
The left one is the DLV. It looks like it has much deeper blacks to me, which is great. On the other hand, looking at the pics it seems quite a lot fatter, and it does weigh a bit more.. I'd go LED based on that comparison i think..
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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