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When I say speed, we're talking fewer whirling beachballs
This is almost always due to lack of RAM. Going from 1GB to 2GB should help that a lot.
I doubt you'd be able to notice the difference between the 7200 rpm drive and the larger 5400 rpm ones, unless your doing something that does a lot of disk accesses, like some sorts of software development or some kinds of video editing.
Although, shouldn't she check the RAM buffer each drive offers? That would aid with speed of accessing, no?
so...i did the update for my itouch and the damn thing erased every single thing on my ipod. WTH? i am not amused and have spent the past hour or so attempting to reupload everything. now i need to get my playlists back in order.
apple is really not endearing themselves to me.
yep. My iPhone is not getting anywhere near my computer for updating for at least a week.
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Hello, clever peoples!
I have two questions to put to your mighty tech hivemind:
1) So if a person wanted to ahem mp3s from the internets onto her mac, how should she go about it?
2) Is it worth buying an iPhone? I'm tempted, because they're soooo shiny, but I suspect that I'm being foolish. Thoughts? Alternative suggestions? (Really, I want a phone to be a phone, a camera maybe, an MP3 player, and to look pretty. And I want the internet, but really should probably not be trusted with it, because I have NO self restraint...)
Fay, you absolutely NEED an iPhone.
I updated last night and had no problems. Even installed a few new (free) apps. Looks pretty cool!
I've updated my Touch but haven't had time to install any apps. Anyone want to recommend a few?
CityTransit isn't great, but it's still necessary.
Remote is awesome.
There's a free app to look up movies and their show times, which will also give you their Rotten Tomato rating. You do have to be able to connect to the interweebs to use it, though, so it's only relatively useful for iTouch-havers like me.
Where? which is a location-based lookup also looks cool, but once again the connectivity requirement gives me little joy.
You know what I really want? Some kind of Graphiti interface which will let me use the simplified alphabet from the Palm in place of the typewriter with the letters far too close together.