After two days of trying to use OS 4 on my iPhone 3G I'm sad to report that it's a very un-Apple like release. It's slower, it breaks a bunch of games and doesn't offer any compelling features. I'd go as far as to say they should probably have only released it for the iPhone 3GS.

I bought a Mac mini last week to use as a work computer--now that I've got some income I'm finally appreciating the idea of a "work expense". I didn't spring for the RAM upgrade since I felt pretty ripped off after doing that for the MacBook.

Apple only sells them with 2GB of RAM but I'd read that you could upgrade them to 3GB. I figured what the fuck I'll just buy the 4GB and stick it all in and see what happens. Well the good news is that--as you can see from the screen shot--it'll use all 4GB.

If you do try to do the home upgrade read through this RAM upgrade walk through but skip their advice for getting the case off and watch this video instead. It has a much better technique that resulted in zero scratches. Be really careful putting it back together though, I tried to rush that and bent some of the tabs in the back so it doesn't seat quite right now.