Handsfree for me is not "fiddling with the phone". Unless you are talking about a headset but that's not really handsfree since you need to put in the earpiece and get your hands of the steeringwheel to actually take the call. So first you need to define handsfree to be able to compare. Why would a phonecall be handsfree if you need to use your hands?

Those cables are built for that power, do you want to carry around usb cables that thick for every device that uses usb? Unless there is a way for the chipset to identify the cable (no high power if the cable is a type that's thinner than a certain size) it could be a risk.
You can't trust users to decide sensibly if the thin cable would be safe to charge your laptop if the connector is the same as the thick cable that came with the laptop. Lots of people reason that if it fits, it should work.

Same specced other brand laptop gets close to half the price of macbooks so it's not always irrational hatred, some people have limited funds.

Are there no phones for sale in regular electronic shops in the US? Over here we have some carriers with locked phones in combination with longterm contracts but most people just buy the manufacturer labeled phones (these are pretty clean installs with the usually manufacturer skins) since the "subsidised phones" are just expensive loans.

Source?
I find this on their site https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6603
so if you have other info I guess legal action against them is possible.

I just go to software sources and select in the additional drivers tab whether I want the old, current or experimental drivers and video updates are transparant from that point. Since switching my gaming machine to experimental drivers (beta nvidia i think) I didn't have any problems, drivers are always latest beta. The machines at work just run the default nvidia ubuntu driver but they are all nvidia ion based, the most work they do in 3d is google earth, desktop accell is not that hard. :)

I guess the ease of install is probably more Ubuntu than nvidia (don't know if other distro's have it this easy).
Are there many distro's that still require manual installation of the nv driver?

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The released ICS source includes the full history of the Android source code tree and the 2 apps you name are not part of the android os. I'm sorry, you were trolling stupid?

I don't understand that this blatant lying by Apple about the mails isn't outright punished, every company I've known urges the higherups to keep their old mails for stuff like this so the judge must know they've been deleted to hide something. Same goes for Samsung, just deleting them and acting like it's normal practise. They should both get penalised instead of cancelling it out when the 2 say 'fuck you' to the courts.

I another brand can make a perfectly reliable car and get the sync going, shouldn't it be valued higher in a review? So that's why they deducted points.

Source? Was that during his time working at google? :)

Not sure if it's the HFS+ filesystem, I let my battery run out a lot while working on my ubuntu laptop (ext4 fs), never have a prob.

you lost some letters there - AusTRAlia :)

Than he shouldn't do his banking on a windows machine.