Or unobtainium?

Does anyone have good/bad things to say re Caviar reliability? I had thought conventional wisdom was that WD drives generally fail prematurely, just wondering if the Caviar line was an exception to this...

I think the Aptera will be worth watching; granted that in the near-term it's basically a 2-seater California commuter vehicle. If you're willing to live with that constraint, it's aero enough to keep the battery pack small (10kWh), while still keeping the range at 120 mi & the price under $30k. That small battery also means a quick, cheap ($1-2/night) recharge from standard 110V. The fact that it's classified as an enclosed 3-wheel motorcycle also means that under CA law, it can use the carpool lane w/ just one occupant w/o requiring an HOV sticker, yet not require a helmet or motorcycle license to operate.

My understanding of the Tesla Roadster is that it takes ~30 hours (!) to completely recharge its larger 53kWh battery pack from a 110V/15A circuit; the touted 8-hour recharge time requires a beefier 220V/40A circuit.

iUD FTW

I think they mentioned these have a mic built-in too, right? Wonder if they're the triple-ring kind & would also work w/ iPhone? Would be nice to have an iPhone headset w/ inline volume control... (but for $79? Yeesh...)

"weapon of paradise" - Thomas, are you coining a new phrase, or has this one been lurking somewhere that I've been missing? I thought paradises tended to be more on the weapon-free side??

Sorry to throw a bit of cold water on this, but unfortunately, all the cool 1.1.x apps that you can get from Installer won't run on 2.0 - d'oh!

Just FYI - after the 2.0 Pwnage is complete (def. not as easy yet as Ziphone/iNdependence), what you're left with is an icon for Cydia, which is the new replacement for Installer. It's still early days - most of what's available so far inside Cydia is unix tools & a few cosmetic skinning things. Nothing super-yummy yet like VideoRecorder, IntelliScreen, etc, etc. (but I'm sure that stuff will be coming, right? right??)

(No disrespect to the dev team meant, just wanted to set folks' expectations...)

Sorry to throw a bit of cold water on this, but unfortunately, all the cool 1.1.x apps that you can get from Installer won't run on 2.0 - d'oh!

Just FYI - after the 2.0 Pwnage is complete (def. not as easy yet as Ziphone/iNdependence), what you're left with is an icon for Cydia, which is the new replacement for Installer. It's still early days - most of what's available so far inside Cydia is unix tools & a few cosmetic skinning things. Nothing super-yummy yet like VideoRecorder, IntelliScreen, etc, etc. (but I'm sure that stuff will be coming, right? right??)

(No disrespect to the dev team meant, just wanted to set folks' expectations...)

is this a new hep saying? "it would be beast?" Man, I feel old...

Well, Apple Corps (Beatles music licensing) is probably a Brit company...