The "More Coverage" button needs to be bigger or a different colour or something. I completely missed it on my first read through, and had to check the comments :)

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I do think it's going to be fairly specific in application, especially at launch. I think what Google have here though is a chance to make consumer thin clients actually good. Distributing the storage is a key part of thin client design, and until the advent of fast broadband was something that could only be done in a lan environment.

I can totally understand why people would be a bit wary of trusting things to the cloud, but it's not like that's your only option (usb key or whatever is still valid). What I'd love to see is some sort of NAS integration via Google Apps or something - you can store all your data on a local network drive but share it as if it was via the cloud. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Google did something like that as a complement to this.

You know, when they say you spend the majority of your time in a browser, they're pretty much right.

I don't use photoshop, and don't play as many games as I used to (at least, not on the PC), so the concept of a light, slick OS actually appeals to me. With 3G broadband getting cheaper all the time, I could stick a sim card in the device for internet on the go and then switch to wifi when I'm at home on the couch - that's the persistent connection sorted.

The more I think about it, the more I like it. If the new Office Web Apps are halfway decent it gives me even less incentive to spend an (relative) fortune on a new laptop every couple of years.

SPE's aren't proper CPU cores, they're glorified floating point pipelines.

So, no, it's not an 8 core CPU, that would be like saying every rendering pipeline in a video card was a seperate GPU.

That, and the GPU in the PS3 is a rebadged Geforce 7900. I wish people would actually find these things out rather than quoting Sony PR.

David, on the command prompt issue try running Powershell. It's cmd on steroids.

I quite like the ad and what it suggests, and I'm writing this on a Macbook Pro.

Then again, I'm not the target market for that HP. For people looking for something that fits their budget and requirements, you can't deny you're going to get a better deal finding and buying a Windows PC. Especially when you get to things like screen size, and until relatively recently, a goddamn DVD-Burner as standard.

Pretty much anyone who's seen my Macbook has loved it. But once you tell them how much it cost, you get a few less interested parties. Like it or not, Apple computers are more expensive for a given set of specifications. The joke here is that until the switch to Intel, the fanboys hated talking about specifications, because pretty much everyone knew the Power architecture (especially in laptops) was a complete joke. Now all I see here are people trying to base a comparison on specs that the vast majority of consumers don't give two shits about. The shoe's on the other foot, and it doesn't fit as well as some would like, apparently.

Magnets don't have any effect on flash storage.

In fact, they don't have any effect on normal magnetic platter hard drives either, if they did the rare-earth magnet you'll find inside would wipe the data as you wrote it.

This has got to be the single worst bunch of comment's I've ever seen on this site.

For the love of god, start vetting your users, Engadget. It's turning into a cesspool over here.

My biggest issue has been the clunkiness with the contacts list - it takes (relatively) ages before you can actually interact with it, and even then it's still slow for a bit.

Meanwhile a Nokia will flat-out refuse you access to the contact list until it's completely loaded, which I think is a better solution from a usability perspective.

Otherwise, MobileMe and everything else have been running fine since purchase. It's still a great phone.

@clak: So, first off, Microsoft is ripping off Apple, but in actual contractual reality they were quite within their rights and it was only because of Apple's delays with the Macintosh interface that Windows ever managed to exist?

Whatever, I guess. This is all history now.

What I really don't get is this burning desire to constantly defend and sometimes even aggravate on behalf of a faceless multinational corporation that in the end only really wants your money for shiny things. In the entire world of gadgets and electronics there is no more cultish and downright bizzare devotion to a company, and more often than not it comes off as a sort of smug "I'm of the chosen, I bought this computer instead of your lowly one" mentality that's fucking annoying.

I've known and argued with many mac users, and almost to an individual when you get down to it they actually honestly think they're better than you because of their choice of computer. I actually really like Apple's hardware design but when you see otherwise grown men and women acting like privileged assholes over a purchasing decision it makes you wonder whether you want to buy into an otherwise excellent design philosophy and OS environment.

Go read some Apple message boards. Without a doubt you'll see a constant low-level bashing of Microsoft, Windows and most importantly Windows users (ie the other 90-odd percent of people) that reeks of an over-inflated sense of self-importance. Remind them that Vista is actually not bad given a halfway recent PC and that they were all doing the same thing around the time XP came out and you'll get told to go back to your 'Windoze' and play with your 'Zune' because 'nobody else owns one'.

Yet when people make reasonable and consistent arguments against elements of Apple's policies or design decisions, WE'RE the haters? What gives?