edit: nevermind, link didn't work

@jrhys: wait till they go out then pack up all their stuff and stick it outside the front door. Then lock up and go to your boyfriends place for the weekend. They will get the hint :)

@freakshowtime: Wave was a brilliant idea, but let down by a) being impossible to get an invite to, b) slllooooww development and c) arcane, unobvious, erm... "un-Google"-like workflow.

home taping... erm... home downloading... erm.. home vinyl pressing... is killing music! and it's illegal! ask Fergal Sharkey!

@Collin Obremski: I run Windows 7 on a PC with 1gb of RAM, it runs fine. Difference is, my PC has plenty of Hard-drive to make up memory caches. By the look of it, iOS isn't using that lovely 16gb as a cache if internal memory gets full.

6.0.472.11 - whatever that is (downloaded from Filehippo, so maybe beta?)

I dunno, it makes a nice change from those clay chimney thingamebobs. I like it.

@R94N: from my (3 second test comparisons) -

@dohtem: Not really, I have installed Adblock on every computer I come into contact with (on FF or Chrome).

re that first image, isn't AKnotes a different program to 3Banana? (same company though)

@Sandwich: look for the followup article (the one which tell you how to install the market, posted today). If you install that version, it also gives you Google Sync and all that good stuff (it's from a test-phone)

@spalek83: *ahem* assuming you have vending.apk from a 2.2 system, how do you install that into the 2.2 emulator? *cough*

@jaycustom79: yeah, 1.6 runs faster in emulation than 2.2. This machine with the market in it (above) is a 1.6 machine

@S_path_23: if you sign up to Appbrain [www.appbrain.com] and then install the Appbrain app on your tester droid it will remember all your apps, and you can easily reinstall them on a different phone (in bulk) if you need to. Nice app

@jaycustom79: this is an actual rom (from a Tester Phone). It's 1.6 so runs pretty fast - 2.2 runs really slow. If you can find a 2.2 system.img from somewhere *cough* then you could use that

@ircmaster: create a 1.6 Android machine, run it once then shut down. Then download the 1.6 system.img from this post

@ircmaster: and the 1.6 version is much faster than the 2.2 version on my dual-core, so you might want to downgrade a bit.

@Californian: whatever gets you thru the night, s'alright...

@aThingOrTwo: yeah, if you want to try Android then you should walk into a phone store and try one. This is mainly for devs to test their apps

@ircmaster: fast computer? Seriously though, the whole thing is a Java machine, so not really. If there was a native DirectX client you could load ROMS into then it would be speedy zoomzoom