@Xtole A co-worker and I just tested out these new 7.2Mbps roll-outs in Baltimore. He was peaking at 900Kb/sec. I was peaking at 2.8Mb/sec. I've never seen download speeds of 350KB/sec on AT&T prior to today, so it's definitely not smoke and mirrors.

This might not help people with overcrowded pipes, but for those where bandwidth is available it's a noticeable pump. If you're going to bash AT&T for the "software only" upgrade, it looks like T-Mobile may be guilty as well.

Worth a shot!

I agree. Chrome decided to start autocompleting "t" to TechCrunch away from TUAW anyway. It's a sign that I should stop visiting here. There's never any news that I can't find on Engadget or MacRumors first.

I'm an Apple fanboy AND a Palm fanboy. Both have done AMAZING things for technology and there's no reason to flame Palm for only having 1000 apps 6 months after launch. How many did the iPhone have 6 months after launch? Oh, right. Zero.

I have a Palm Pre and an iPhone, and though I'm waiting for WebOS to get faster, there's a lot I love about it. I WISH it could be my go-to cell phone because it's a very innovative OS... something you can't say about the iPhone OS anymore. It's really stagnated in core features over the past 2.5 years.

@TikiTeko Link? Hard to find anything with a nice screen, battery life, and non-crippled Core 2 Duo for under this price.

Guess it's time to start entering these.

Guess it's time to start entering these.

Guess it's time to start entering these.

Fedora is the pre-hardened codebase for CentOS.

Fedora -> RedHat Enterprise Linux -> debranding -> CentOS

Chris may be basing his opinion on actual facts of HIS EXPERIENCE but that doesn't equate to the national experience. This post is EXTREMELY biased based on the poor service he's received from AT&T. The tone of this article makes one believe that his experience is the singular experience with the AT&T network. It's not.

I'm in Baltimore and I have great AT&T coverage. It's fast 3G and I rarely ever have problems getting service (can't remember the last time I had a dropped call). In fact, the only time I've really had issue with AT&T service was at a Sprint Cup Nascar race ;) The towers were a bit overwhelmed, but that's understandable.

You obviously haven't spent more than five minutes TOTAL on a Mac, as you're making up a lot of things.

Moving between two different drives requires a copy. Moving from one place on a drive to another does not require a copy. It's pretty much instant. You don't need 20GB of disk space left to move a 20GB folder.

Some people consider the command menu being in the same place all the time a good thing, though obviously you don't.

I have no idea what you mean by the desktop being cluttered on a Mac. By default it has your drives and Mobile Me account (if you so choose). The only difference is that the Mac desktop is aligned to the right instead of the left. You make no actual criticism of the dock (probably because you've never used it more than five minutes).

I've never heard of a fellow Mac user getting a virus. I'm sure it's possible (pirating iWork is one way) but it isn't easy.

The sharp edge of a MacBook !== all Macs, and even that doesn't bother everyone (and the new Macbooks might not be as bad -- I haven't checked).

OS X's kernel (Darwin) is based on BSD, not Linux. You can also compile pretty much any *NIX software to work fine on OS X, so I have no idea what you're referring to when you say the software has been "precluded". Windows 7 is nice. Nobody said it wasn't. How does that relate to the merits of OS X?

Not having a second mouse button isn't an issue. Two finger tap is wonderful once you get used to it, or you can just actually enable the right click on the new trackpads. Oh, and you can use any mouse you want. This second mouse button argument needs to die.

Apple was not lying to customers about Intel CPUs. They were EXTREMELY power hungry. Everything changed with the Pentium M. That was why Apple switched. The Pentium M / Core was a game changer and Apple didn't stick its head in the sand, instead choosing to rewrite their operating system for Intel. A big move. Apple praised the Core architecture. NetBurst was terribly power hungry, as was the G5.

I think the design industry is pretty tech savvy, and they generally favor Macs. Get your head out of the sand.