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oops, didn't finish my math above... 1.5 gigabit = 1500 megabit = 187.5 megabytes

so wouldn't 1.5Gbit/sec = 187.5MB/sec?

Can someone set me straight here? It's being reported here in the comments and over at AnandTech (http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3582&p=1) that 1.5Gbit (gigabit) SATA means you peak at 150MB/sec (megabyte since it's a capital 'B').

Isn't this incorrect? 1 gigabit = 1000 megabits, which is 125 megabytes (1000/8 = 125).

Am I missing something?

Yeah, file system management is weak on the iPhone OS by default. If you want to do anything advanced I highly recommend jailbreaking. My Phone has be jailbroken and working perfectly for a few months now and I have full access to the filesystem via a nice console app and a decent 'finder' app.

Of course jailbreaking isn't all roses - you have to wait for the jailbreak community to catch up with each to OS update and when you do the update your jailbreak apps/docs get wiped (need to back them up and restore yourself). Still, given the highly active jailbreak/hacking community ant the interesting things they're doing on the iPhone I think there's a really compelling argument to take the leap. Especially for people that want to be able to tinker more with their phones.

"one degree of quality improved over Walmart"? Come on it's at least several degrees of quality improvement of Wal*Mart.

Because projectors look horrid in normal ambient light. The only people buy these must be using them for commercial applications. Otherwise yeah, for home theatre $50,000 is much better spent elsewhere.

Man, the Apple haters are legion. You know a product must be good when people tune in just to hate on it.

Decent update, nothing earth shattering. Yes, Apple should have had Cut & Paste, MMS and a bunch of other stuff in long ago, but better late than never.

And please people, stop comparing some old, crappy phone to the iPhone just because it had feature X, Y or Z 2 years ago. Having a bullet point on the box doesn't make a phone good. It's how well it does each feature. Example: has anyone come close to the browsing, mapping, music/video experience they iPhone provides? I haven't seen it yet.

What irritates me most about the PS3/Blu-Ray is the pricing of Blu-Ray discs. At $25-$35 they're 3-4x the price of DVDs and far too overpriced to rationalize a casual purchase. I'm not sure who is mostly at fault for this (studios? Sony? both?), but it seems like a ripe opportunity completely lost. I'd consider upgrading some of my DVD library if BDs weren't so ridiculously priced. Plus studies have shown a lot of people can't really tell the difference between DVDs and BDs. They certainly can tell the difference between $10 and $30 price tags.

Blu-Ray was supposed to be Sony's ace in the hole. Now it looks like a DOA technology. Good work.

I feel this is necessary for anyone who makes it to page 2 of predictable comments holy war an Apple Product post garners:

I prefer glossy screens.

*gasp*

Let me repeat that - I prefer the glossy screen to dull, matte, contrast killing screens. I'm not a professional photo editor, I don't really care much about color gamuts, contrast anomalies, whatever. What I am is a person who uses a computer for a living who prefers the high contrast, glossy screen.

For whatever reason this subject seems to draw out strong opinions and it seems that many angry posters consider it a foregone conclusion that glossy = horrible. It doesn't.

Did Dell design this computer is for stoners and burners?

Ahh the password. Thanks.