Disable all of the search items via System Preferences. It helps a ton. Been there, done that.

But that's neither here nor there. And I'm not sure you're ignoring the very obvious or it's just not that important - it's really not important to be honest. But to those customers, heavy users or not, they didn't have to buy a new phone from a 3GS (I know one in my inner-circle as well) because they were supported for that damn long. Was it slower? Yes. Was it the exact same? No. But was it a version they didn't have from the day they bought the phone? Indeed.

Now with that out of the way, my point about non-savvy users purchasing the best geek phone/pocket computer/plastic piece of masturbation that's been released in the last 5 years and then they find out that they have to learn Linux commands, use temporary repositories and have to actually invest time into research to make it hum at 1.1ghz with a bigger rootfs and better transitions only by reading this site. And only this site has collected that data in a semi-searchable manner.

Yeah. Real ****ing convenient.

At times I get why the folks with the iPhone 3GS don't update their phone. They just have to keep up with iTunes which magically updates them and the companies don't always immediately ignore them upon a dot upgrade or the like. Not always, but it's more the case than not.

Nokia cannot say that about any Maemo device. Is the N900 worth it in 2013? Only if you're a geek with enough time to read this entire message or have figured out that the search on this site is pure crap and you used Google with precise terms and inurl: or site: and found this warning.

The N900 is for geeks. Always has been. Always will be. And that increases more each passing day.

The update on the iPhone 3GS is indeed slow as it went along. But they got it. Enjoy the temporary repositories. I'd rather not jump through any more hoops.