The 80G Seagate hard drive died this morning. Tried my best to boot it up, or read it by mac, still failed. It is now completely unreadable.I haven’t done the backup. Shit.

Planning how should I revive my PC revive a working environment. So far in my mind:

1. The 5-year-old PC is still working. No idea how long it will  probably serve for.
2. It is very noisy.
3. I need a window-based system to help my development. Storage can be real small (i.e. ~ 40GB), but better in higher speed.
4. I need a permanent machine to be hosted at home to handle the dirty tasks.

Steve Jobs is always the best in packaging IMO.

6 millions iphone sold — 90% customer satisfaction (off the carts), 98% are browsing online, 94% are using email, 90% are using text messaging, 80% are using 10 or more features. We figured out the next challenges:

1. 3G network support
2. Enterprise support
3. Third party application support
4. More countries
5. More affordable

Point 1 to 4 are fulfilled, as expected from the vigorous rumors before the event. But Steve thinks it is still not attractive enough and place a US$299 price tag. No more excuse for not going to get one. You won, Steve.