Because I can wear my G-Shock and not even think about having to protect it. I wore mine on the beach, in the water, while surfing, while snowboarding - no matter what I do the watch won't break. That's all.

I also dig the original designs, and especially the Rise Man. It comes with a 50 page user manual ;) Unfortunately, since then Casio hasn't had any good ideas IMO. Design changes were generally for the worse, no cool new technology, nothing.

I have an utterly disappointing Pathfinder with "tough solar". The solar cells may be tough but they are also not working. Even in very sunny conditions they are not able to recharge a battery and I have to change batteries more often than with my non-solar G-shocks. Like, every year. Lame.

And yes convertibles are Garbage, they are a dissapointment. Spend a few grand less and get a Minivan people, it's a way nicer machine, way more features... And is a little bigger (talking about the 15" here), but damn you get a good machine, with some functionality. Bang per buck.

Between the beautiful but locked and tightly-controlled iPhone OS and the utter crap that is Symbian and Win Mobile, Android looks like the way out.

More importantly, once it's open source it's way harder to change the APIs. You don't want to freeze the APIs until the last possible moment.

Tried turning off IPv6? It's said to be causing probs...

Hint: Read the title of this article.

You guys don't get it. iPhone locked = Apple wins, rakes in $$$ from revenue sharing. iPhone unlocked = Apple also wins, sells 500k via grey dealers all over the world. At a PROFIT. It's a win-win for Apple.

That's called having the cake and eating it, too.

@Joshua: Don't post before you had coffee.

The segment wasn't bad, and definitely not wretch-inducing, at least not if you are _already_ watching the _today show_.

The beginning segment, oooohing and aaahing - reason I don't watch TV.

But the rest was good - I was impressed on how much information on advantages/disadvantages these guys could squeeze in this short segment and at the same time be pretty entertaining. That's no mean feat, hats off to the today show.

Engadget: The harshing was uncalled for.

Summarizing, engineers use Macs except if they need AutoCAD or ABAQUS, or high end 3D cards and by that I mean not gaming but the $3000+ professional cards that can run ABAQUS for example.

I have no sympathy for the companies that produce Windows-only software - the reason is that they were too lazy to make these cross platform in the beginning, and now they can't port the code base for a reasonable cost. That's bad engineering, sorry. Well engineered code ports easily. Especially ABAQUS- it's all OpenGL and pure number crunching, should be dead simple to port.

I am also an engineer and luckily don't need either ABAQUS or AutoCAD, I do software development on my MacBook Pro. Apart from the more logical and efficient user interface for doing everyday tasks, the biggest benefits of the Mac are:
- Unix core. Simplifies my life in so many ways.
- Terminal app. Can't stand Cygwin or the DOS command window. Why is the DOS command window so unbelievably crappy? Even the newest MS command shell is total crap. Looks like something from the stone age of computing.
- 4GB RAM no questions asked. Vista really is the new Windows ME and so not an option.
- Hard drive doesn't slow down like crazy. A huge bonus. My 2 year old Windows system is now at 50% speed or less compared to when I bought it. Defrag or anything else doesn't help.

Most of the programmers in our company use Macs by now.