The Toshiba Thrive with 32GB is a little under $500, and the 16GB version is $400.

My Tab is 16GB and that's so far totally enough memory. So the Thrive should be fine for her.

However, right now, I'm also wondering that very selfish thing--do I upgrade and give her my hand me down? I love the Tab, but the Transformer Prime specs look *sweet*. But googling seems to indicate it's pretty tightly locked down, with a locked and encrypted bootloader. Man, these people sure like exercising their control over an open source OS. Meanies.

What Android device(s) do you have, dcp?

...16GB and that's so far totally enough memory.

Also, with the SD card slot, you can add quite a lot of memory whenever you want.

I have a 32GB Thrive and a Galaxy Nexus phone. I still have my original Motorola Droid phone, haven't decided if I am going to donate it or keep it to experiment on.

Well, look at it this way, would you be buying her the new one? If not, then I would prefer a free hand me down than a new one I had to pay for :) Also, you can provide extra specific support since it was once ours.

ION, my internet is down(ish) AGAIN. I can get to b.org and another random site, but no where else. I have called customer service AGAIN and AGAIN have stayed on hold until I was told that my call was unable to be completed and I had to call back. I have restarted the router, I have restarted the computer, I have restarted the modem, and this keeps. happening. The one time I got a person was when I called from work, and he told me that the problem would be fixed in 48 hours. It got better, and I got my hopes up, but here we are again. ARGH.

Does the Thrive come with much bloatware?

I am frustrated by the complexity of rooting my G2. I rooted and CM-ROMed my Cliq with so little effort, but for all of HTC's apparent commitment to opening up for the users it's a total bitch with the G2. And the much touted HTC one click hack is so not what was advertised.

Not enough bloatware that I've bothered to remove any of it. [link]

I use some of it, like the file manager and the reader.

Those are decent specs. I wonder why Samsung is charging so much more for theirs? I'll have to read the specs in more detail. The Transformer looks awesome, but I don't even know if I need that much awesome, plus I'm not really that interested in the add on keyboard, which seems to be why most people like it.

This is a question for Drew and/or anyone else who buys lots macs for business. The last time I bought a laptop, the guy told me I was. Is eligible for business team pricing. But no one can tell me what that means exactly. I thought I had been "signed up" for something but it has all been very vague and the Apple Store clerks seem unsure.

I love my Macbook to teensy little pieces, except I can't mount my Tab or iPod on it like a hard drive. Do people just not care about this, why it hasn't been crowdsolved or hacked or whatever? Getting stuff off my iPod is an issue, and getting stuff onto the Tab is way harder than it should be. Loading up Kies and using that is so much slower than just copying onto the HD device in Windows.

And, no, Android File Transfer doesn't work for the Galaxy. Am I just missing another solution that is out there?

I'm surprised you can't mount them. What kind of iPod is it?