I guess I knew about this, but had yet to consider why I’d want to switch my Gmail config over to Google Sync. 5 minutes later I can assure you that it’s the right move.
Thanks to Business Insider’s quick guide, you can setup sync for Mail, Calendar and Contacts which has immediately reconciled my years of .Mac BS sync conflicts and duplications in contacts and added a multi-calendar view as well. Mail remains the same …
With the addition of Google+, I’m deep in Google services and this just keeps it all nicely together. And no I don’t have any invites at the moment unfortunately …