Hi all,

I've been using my girlfirends White MacBook 2.0Ghz model (when she's not been using it) for the past two years now, and I think it's time to take the plunge and by my own :)

In lots of ways the MacBook is a fantastic device, but one thing I found particularly annoying was the sharpness of the screen. My mine gripe was reading internet pages with lots of text. I turned of anti-aliaising for fonts under pt12 and this helped on the desktop, but not on the web. I found myself increasing fonts sizes in application just to see them properly. Conversely my Dell work laptop has 15.4" screen and runs 1920x1080 with pin sharp text.

Watching the videos on the Apple site they talk about new LCD screens for the MB and MBA, yet spending 30 mins in PC World the other day playing with both of them, I couldn't detect any discernable difference in the sharpness from my current MacBook.

In fact, my vision was clarified when I set eyes on a MBP with non-glossy screen, that was very impressive! And the new gen MBP with glossy screen was equally amazing.

So my question is, have there been any chances to the screen in the new MB and MBA ?

Currently I'm thinking I will buy one of the outgoing MBP models with non-glossy screen (also at a nicely discounted price), because for the number of hours I will look at it, screen quality is paramount.

Peter

New car sales plunged in November for the severnth consecutive month, as the economic crisis continues to put a severe brake on transactions.

Cuts by City banks in their business-class travel contributed to a 10.8 per cent year-on-year fall in the number of premium passengers carried by British Airways last month.

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I've left my phone virgin since I bought it during the 3G rollout, but finally deviced to take the plunge when I saw some cool apps like PDANet. So, I'm a N00B, and I Jailbroke my phone with QuikPwn which worked great!

My frustration lies with the fact that there are no clear compatibility reports in Cydia about each of the apps you download. It seems like 75% of the apps I have tried don't work with the new 2.2 firmware. Some of these include the AppFlow program which uses coverflow to navigate apps. I also tried Dock, which also does not seem to work, when I do the little swoosh, my contacts come up but when I click on a contact my phone locks up and I have to reboot it. I realize that some of these will be fixed in the future, but in the meantime it's real frustrating to download all these apps and not know if the issue is with the 2.2 firmware, or is it my phone, the app, am I doing something wrong?

On the other hand, PDANet works GREAT. Even on an EDGE connection at my parents house up in the mountains, surfing the web worked great. I wouldn't try to download anything, but just reading blogs, the news, etc, it works great on EDGE.

So, i guess as a N00B to all this, can anyone point me to some good sites which have a lot of useful information, or is this forum the best place to find stuff?

Slumping demand and excess capacity have caused semiconductor prices to plunge pushing Toshiba's chip business to a $639 million operating loss for the April-September period.

Japan’s second largest wireless carrier, KDDI, has taken the plunge into the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard, by building an LTE overlay on top of its existing CDMA network. KDDI is using equipment from Nortel and Hitachi for the fourth-generation wireless network, which will be operating by 2010. For those of you in the U.S. eager to see what the 4G future holds, Verizon is expected to start deploying LTE in 2010 as well. Vendors such as Ericsson expect LTE to be widely deployed in 2012. As a footnote, KDDI also has a WiMAX network deployed in parts of Japan that it has said it plans to begin operating next year. If the two technologies are ever to merge, perhaps we can watch that unfold in Japan.

Dr. Daniel J. Kliman, "an Alameda physician and one of the Bay Area's foremost pro-Israel activists," died after apparently plunging seven floors down an elevator shaft in the nine-story Sharon Building at 55 New Montgomery St. in San Francisco. The elevator was out of commission at the time and nobody is quite clear how it happened.

"Kliman, 38, lived near the temple in Oakland and was perhaps best known as co-founder of S.F. Voice for Israel, a 4-year-old organization that vociferously demonstrates on behalf of Israeli causes. He also maintained a practice in Alameda as a doctor of internal medicine and was an ardent proponent of vegetarianism and alternative transportation to cars...Some in Kliman's activist community wondered Tuesday if he had been killed by someone he loudly opposed in street demonstrations over the years, but [Police Inspector Matt] Krimsky called that possibility 'beyond remote.'...'There is no indication of any foul play at this point, even though I've been getting calls from conspiracy theorists from everywhere, even someone who said they had information from a seance,' Krimsky said."

In addition to being a pro-Israel activist, the SF Chronicle notes, Kliman also recently campaigned against Proposition 8.