Like others have mentioned, the ipad will work with a bluetooth keyboard just fine. What I want is an ipad running a full version of OSX, not iOS.

I've got both at my house, the weasiest way to tell is to look at the remote. The newer version has a full remote with a numeric pad, the older remote is much smaller, and doesn't have the numeric keypad. Yes, the new model is way ahead of the old model, and the old model is pretty good.

I've got two of these hooked to my two tvs, and a linux machine running SickBeard and acting as a file server. It's a great setup.

If it's available in your area, Verizon's FIOS has good upload speeds. I'm paying about $60/mo for a 30Mb synchronous connection in Indio, CA. Testing shows my actual speeds at around 40Mb/s down, and 35Mb/s up. It beats the hell out of anything that the cable company is offering.

Your complaint about Android's keyboard is one of its best features. Sure, the stock Android keyboard is just mediocre. It works fine for most people, but for those who want something better, you can easily replace it. I found one that I like, that works really well for me (SwiftKey), so I was able to very easily replace the stock keyboard app with that one. My wife didn't care for the stock keyboard or SwiftKey, so she easily replaced hers with another (Swype, I think?). I can't stand her keyboard, but she loves it. We both can easily type using our onscreen keyboards, and we both routinely use the onscreen keyboard instead of the built in hardware keyboard.

My son has an iPhone, after using SwiftKey, I think his keyboard is horrible. As far as I know he's stuck with it though, there's no way to change the stock keyboard on it. It may be a little better than the stock Android keyboard, but it absolutely blows compared to some of the aftermarket Android ones.

You also made a comment about Samsung just using the free software that's available instead of developing their own. Do you remember just a few years ago, when each phone had its own OS? Those were absolutely horrible. I wouldn't even consider a phone not running Android or iOS any more. I don't think many other people would either.

"Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives should be a store, not a government agency."

- Stolen from some comedian whose name I can't recall

The Wicked Laser 1KW Green Laser, the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively, got to blind every motherfucker in the room; accept no substitutes.

You really expect a PC repair shop to run a full malware scan and reinstall the OS when fixing a broken computer for someone? People take the machine to a repair shop so that they can have it fixed without having to backup/restore their data, reinstall updates, etc...

What the repair shop should have done, is exactly what it sounds like they did. Repaired the laptop so that it's working properly.

Low end laptops often go on sale for $250-$300. It's completely possible that someone would sell a 2-3 year old low end laptop that requires repairs for $60.

I've probably got a dozen old computers packed away that work, but are just waaay outdated. My last desktop that I built for myself is about 11 years old at this point, it's still chugging away as a file server and streaming video to my WDTV Live box. I can't bring myself to pitch a still working computer, even if it's so old as to be obsolete. I'll find some use for it, and will keep it running.

There's no such thing as too much data in a case like this, assuming that they can store it all. Even if it's too much to parse now, it won't be in a few years. Get as much data as we can now, while there's funding for it.

Two way syncing of read/unread status. If I read an email on my computer's email client, it would be marked as read on my BB. If I read an email on my BB, it would not be marked as read on the server, so later when I'd check my email I would have to go through all of my messages again and figure out which ones I had already read.

Also, deleting an email from my computer's mail client would not remove it from my BB. So if I went through and removed a bunch of spam, or moved mail to different folders on the server, those changes would not be applied to my BB inbox.

  It doesn't sound like a huge issue, but when you've got a ton of email that you're dealing with every day, it became a huge hassle.

Even the email client sucks horribly if you need to use IMAP. Seriously, why can they not implement proper IMAP support in a device that's designed mainly for email? And before anyone suggests it, BES is not a replacement for proper IMAP support.

I switched to an Android phone about 6 months ago, and was immediately blown away by the difference in experiences between the devices.

The vermiform appendix is an organ. It appears that we've evolved in such a way that it is in fact an extra organ at this point.

Who says Amazon is going to be storing every copy that everyone uploads? I would imagine that their file uploader creates a hash of the file before uploading it, and checks if that file has already been uploaded. If it's already been uploaded by another user, no need to waste their bandwidth uploading and storing it again. This is likely a very efficient way for a lot of people to store and access their music.