Do you see the outrageous prices that Apple charges for memory upgrades? When I was purchasing a Macbook Pro, the price to upgrade from 2 gigabytes to 4 gigabytes of ram costs and unworldly $700! The same 4 gigabytes of memory was selling for only $129 on www.crucial.com, and even less if you do a little more searching or even cheaper on eBay!
Is there something special about memory from Apple? It must be blessed by Steve Jobs to cost that much!
Wow. I just saw the price of the Macbook Air’s solid state hard drive “upgrade”. At that price I’ll pass. I’ll purchase the notebook and then upgrade later, when the price comes down. Reminds me of when I was in the process of purchasing a Macbook Pro, the 4 gb memory upgrade was $700 direct from Apple. I bought the same memory size from Micron for $129 and took the 5 minutes to do the upgrade myself.
A few weeks ago I discovered Google Calendar Sync. It syncs the calendar on my blackberry curve with
my online Google Calendar.
“Using your BlackBerry smartphone’s native calendar, you can now access your Google calendar even when you don’t have network coverage and be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound or vibration. Your Google Calendar stays synchronized whether you access it from your computer or your phone. You can add or edit entries right on your BlackBerry smartphone or on your Google Calendar on the web.”
This then syncs easily with iCal on my Macbook Pro. Its a good thing I use a mac because I couldn’t find any easy or free way to get my Google Calendar to Sync with Outlook.
The application can be downloaded by visiting http://m.google.com/sync on your blackberry. It supports any Google Apps accounts.
In my opinion Google has some of the best mobile apps, including maps and gmail. This is why I am so excited about Android.
All my calendars are always updated and in sync and can be accessed and edited virtually anywhere I am.
