These seem to be just SSBs for various webapps. Hardly an App Store at all!

If updates can happen over 3G, I also hope they remove the silly 20 MB limit for app downloads. I wish they added a simple option called "I have fast unlimited 3G so let me download anything I want without jailbreaking".

How long do you manage to keep contacts on?

If the US banking system wasn't practically from the dark ages, there would be no need for Paypal.

Have there been any significant updates to the design though? It was good for its time but nowadays it seems only decent.

To me it would make more sense that the data is transferred some other way but the camera snap is used as the interface. It makes sense as an usability paradigm: need something from your computer, snap a photo of it. Then the system would query the computer for what app was open and that app would send its data to the…

Greatest ever? I think not. It's a good mouse, but the scroll wheel at least on mine has become jumpy (scroll down and at the end it tends to scroll a few lines back up), have had to replace the pads on the bottom, the application switcher button is pretty useless, no sideways scrolling or free scrolling. IMO the M500…

I'm not saying that. OO/LO are still "XP era" software as far as usability goes. Ugly, somewhat awkward software. Still, for free software it can do most things just fine.

If you have to deliberately think thru the workflow, it might not be clear enough. Many things in Office are placed in a way that isn't obvious.

It's also really hideous and IMO doesn't integrate into Explorer well. Directory Opus does it much better but it isn't particularly native anymore either. IMO Win7's default file browser works better with windows rather than tabs.

I'd rather have Cocoatech's Path Finder replace Finder.

It amazes me how OS updates can come with so few user interface improvements.

You've got some very good points. IMO the Start menu really needs to go or be replaced by something that doesn't rely on a folder structure. Actually the whole paradigm for programs should be replaced, ideally by something similar to OSX (.app package = the whole application).

When Intel and AMD change CPU sockets every year, computers these days aren't very upgradable at all when you have to change the motherboard, CPU, possible RAM etc. Not to mention even a several years old computer is still faster than most people need.

It would be fairly nice (for tablets) but if it ends up being a hybrid of old Windows and tablet UI then it's going to suck because every time you open a regular app it turns into the same ol' crap.

I've also been using Switcher for years. It isn't perfect, it sometimes tends to forget itself, meaning my mouse shortcuts for expose don't work until I restart Switcher. Overall though it's a good example of why software should be designed for Vista/7, the smooth hardware accelerated animations are rather nice.

I'd also like to point out that it's nice to have gigabit Ethernet ports on a router for getting the most out of your LAN network. Not everything comes with this.

The main problem is that instead of making something they can call their own, many PC laptop manufacturers are just aping the Macbook Pro but end up producing just plain lacking alternatives. The only good thing that can come out of that is that it'll drive MBP prices down a bit.

iTunes is just so awfully slow. I have a fast SSD drive in my Macbook Pro and it still takes literally hours to add my whole music collection. By comparison foobar2000 on my regular HDD desktop PC (Win7) did the same thing in only a minute or two.

PS3 Media Server is generally very good and really easy to set up but not perfect. It sometimes refuses to play some files even using transcoding.