Neutron :: Bomb

I have been an Apple convert since 2006, and seriously love my iPhone + MacBook Pro setup (not to mention the iMac in my kitchen and Airport Express' running speakers in the house). But, it does cost a lot to maintain the Apple allegiance.

However, there is a compelling reason to change over to an Android phone + Chrome OS Setup other than price: network reliability. ATT has been underperforming (I know they think otherwise, and also promise to make things better), and the amount of dropped calls I experience (problem amplified since my wife has an iPhone) is ridiculous. Not to mention that when I attend a sporting event or something of that magnitude, the data connection is a complete failure due to ATT's network caving to the overload.

So, feeling pressured to buy a new gadget (no, not the iPad), I am eager to investigate a wholesale move to Google once the OS is released. At that point I would run the OS on a current machine I own, and move over to an Android smartphone. The entry cost is not that big, and I could run the device on TMobile to compare if their network is any better. No, I dont trust any of my peers to tell me otherwise.

As for running Chrome OS instead of Mac OSX, well, most of what I do for personal reasons can be done thru a browser. And I am a fan of Chrome (the browser) on both Mac and PC.