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?

Did you try turning on USB debugging on the Tab?

I'm having issues with a new NAS I've set up to hold media. iTunes claims to be syncing properly, but podcasts aren't syncing at all. The old ones aren't being deleted and the new ones are showing up in iTunes but not on my actual phone.

Any ideas?

Stephanie, sorry I've been remiss in replying earlier. I have a business account with Apple. They should have someone who deals with business accounts in each Apple store. Basically the more equipment you buy the more of a discount you will get. They keep a tally on it. My experience has been that the discount isn't all that great and I actually do better either buying through my source at Full Compass (Let me know and I can connect you with him if you'd like) who can usually get me things at about 5% under list price on Apple, or I buy through Best Buy and make sure I get the credit on my Reward Zone account so that I'm at least racking up some store credit there.