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It does appear from Samsung's website that the Series 9 (the NP900X3A variant, anyway) does have user-replaceable RAM and supports a maximum of 8GB.

Dell's XPS 13 Ultrabook appears to have a user replaceable SSD, but not RAM. That Lenovo X230 appears to allow both. Seems other ultrabooks allow one or the other, or none.

While I do like to upgrade things myself (upgraded the RAM and put an SSD in my current 13" Pro) and would prefer notebooks have that option, Apple's targeting an audience that would rather have their notebooks be as thin as possible than have the ability to do something that they'll never care to do. People that don't like that, can just buy something else, in Apple's opinion.

Yeah, Lenovo's using 8GBx2, but even so, it's a very heavy markup. Newegg wants about $125 for such sticks[1]. It'd be about $85 for 4GBx4[2] if that is in fact what Apple's using

I also just navigated the labyrinth that is HP.com and looked at pricing on the 15" Envy (15t-3000 series specifically). The base model comes with 6GB and it costs $315 to go to 16GB (8GBx2)[3].

So, Apple's pricing really doesn't seem bad at all.

[1]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226... [2]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226... [3]: No direct link possible apparently.

$200 to go from 8GB to 16GB was among the most reasonable of notebook vendors I saw in my research last night.

Lenovo, for example, wanted $1,060 to go from 4GB to 16GB in the ThinkPad X230.

Regardless, I don't think anyone looking at such an expensive notebook to begin with would have a problem paying $200 for more RAM if they think they might need it some day if it means a thinner notebook.

That seems the likely reason to me.

It was true that the Mac Pro didn't receive any updates in the prior two years because there simply wasn't a new Intel chipset to update to...

But Intel's Sandy Bridge Xeon chipset and new E5 processors have now been put for a few months, with Dell's Precisions and other workstations now using them.

Except that Dell is now using the newer Sandy Bridge E5 Xeon processors while Apple's using models over 2 years old.

One simply can't compare what Apple's now offering with other workstations.

They offered to license patents recently, http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/03/though-steve-jobs-famou...

And the Samsung conglomerate is huge, with $220 billion in yearly revenue and ~350000 employees. Apple's revenue in 2011 was half that.

Google owns Motorola Mobility, one can assume they have some say in these recent suits.

I think this whole thing (companies suing each other over things like this) is wrong, but It's how the system works and so Apple has to play as well.

Samsung's a bit larger than Apple.

And Apple has said before that they'd rather have these companies (Samsung, HTC, etc) make a license agreement for the patents (like Microsoft's and HTC's deal with each other) rather than sue them or try to block the sale of their products.

It's not like Apple's the only one that does this either, most recently Motorola/Google tried to block iPhone/iPad sales in Germany over iCloud.

Yep, that's primarily why it's my favorite as well.

I don't think you can consider the Galaxy Nexus a Samsung phone. Yes, it's built by Samsung, but they're more a contractor for Google in this case.

The Galaxy S II and its differing variants in the US all still run Android 2.3, with only promises that they might eventually get an update.

Having the same issue here.

And I'm guessing, from the submitted article, re-installing 'osx-gcc-installer' wouldn't work.

Hopefully, Ruby will work with newer tools soon.

Perhaps, though the iPhone 4 and 3GS are the 2nd and 3rd best selling current smartphones as well.

Additionally, with the iPhone now available on yet another US carrier (Sprint), there's more people who can now buy iPhones. I know a number of Sprint (and previously, Verizon) customers who only had Android phones because they couldn't get an iPhone with their carrier.

There's also just using the Mobile version of the website.

We do, but the carriers will want $20-25/month from you if you try to enable the feature. It's rather lame, wanting to charge you again to use data you're already paying form especially in this era of data plans being capped anyway,

This nonsense is easy enough to get around with on Android (many third-party ROMs have Android's built-in tethering feature enabled) or BlackBerry (this Tether company makes a BlackBerry app that worked well for me in the past.)

I've come across a number of Kindle eBooks with numerous typos or other errors. It's like they simply OCR'd a printed book and didn't bother to check for issues ('Too Big to Fail' by Andrew Ross Sorkin is the most egregious I've bought).

Many of these books are eventually corrected and Amazon will email letting you know this so you can get an updated copy, but this has generally been months, or years[1], after I've put up with the problems and finished reading the book.

And it would be nice if pictures were handled better. I think ideally they should all be put at the end of the eBook but have links in the text that take you to the relevant picture, so you can quickly look at it and hit "back" to go back to the text where you left of.

[1]: Just this morning, I got an email from Amazon telling me a book I purchased in May 2009 has been updated with corrections.

This is clever.

I'm not sure why Dropbox doesn't offer plans with less space, and make it more affordable. For the $100/yr a 50GB account costs, you can get 100GB (plus unlimited storage of AAC/MP3 music) from Amazon via Cloud Drive. Granted, you're not getting Dropbox's excellent syncing, just storage (and streaming of music)

I'd be happy to give $20-25/yr to Dropbox for 20GB-25GB of space and syncing.

Seems like it's finally gone live. The App Store page is showing version 4.0 and iPad screenshots now.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/facebook/id284882215

The app is supposed to be "universal" and display the proper one for your device, but yeah, it's not actually gone live on the App Store yet it seems.

I'm in the US and just downloaded it, got the old iPhone version in a small window, as always. Very annoying.

Yeah. Instapaper and emailing files, along with already having a large amount of Kindle purchases, are the reasons I've stuck with Kindle.

I have switched from the 3G+WiFi Kindle 3/Kindle Keyboard to the new $79 Kindle and am pretty happy with it. Gets rid of the stuff I didn't use (Audio playback, speakers, keyboard) to make a device even smaller. 3G is something I used so rarely I don't think I'll miss it.

I decided to order the ad-supported model because I knew I could just pay Amazon $30 to turn them off if they bothered me. But it turns out I'm fine with them. They're not egregious and I only see them for the couple seconds it takes me to wake the Kindle and select a book.

The ghosting is something I have noticed but it's something that is just as easy to ignore as the full-flash-every-turn issue on the prior models.

There are only so many ways to design a unique rectangular phone or tablet, but Samsung tries to make theirs look closer to Apple's than the others.

Samsung's TouchWiz interface, at least on the phones, could easily be mistaken for Apple's interface in iOS as well, whereas HTC and Motorola's phones can't really.

Yeah, this has been around for months with no push from Amazon for some reason. I'm not sure many Kindle owners are even aware that kindle.amazon.com exists and that they can view their highlights and notes there.

Seeing what your friends are reading and highlighting would be interesting.

I don't. Ads don't bother me unless they're flashy... flash ads, and well, not having Flash Player installed solves that issue.

If a website has other ads that annoy me, I just won't visit it. Or if the content is something I feel is worth paying for a subscription and that subscription removes the ads, I do that.

Thank you, that makes sense.

to be clear, my line 10 looks like this:

puts "There are #{cars} cars available."

But, yeah, complete Ruby noob here as well so I don't really know what's wrong.

Regarding copy/pasting, I do agree. Not much of a point in reading if you're just going to do that.

But, I was having a problem with exercise 4 and so copy/pasted it from the webpage (removed line numbers with TextMate's vertical selection easily enough). Received the same error when trying to run it as I did when I typed it myself:

ex4.rb:10:in `+': can't convert Fixnum into String (TypeError) from ex4.rb:10:in `<main>'

I'm not familiar enough with Ruby to understand why it's doing that... my googling shows similar ruby tutorials with that format, but one site I found suggested using #{variable_name} instead of the " + variable_name + " and that worked just fine for me.

Is this a real error in the book or something weird going on with my computer (OS X Lion w/ Ruby 1.9.2 installed)?

Great book, by the way.

Looks very nice from the screenshots.

I've been trying out a number of text editors since installing Lion and haven't found one I liked as much as TextMate, but want to as I expect TextMate 2 to never come out and for 1.5 to stop working with some future version of OS X.

This is nice. I've stuck with Lion's default setting in order to see if I liked it more eventually and I do, except when I use another computer and try to scroll the same way.

This at least addresses the issue for the other Mac in my home that is stuck on Snow Leopard.