Well, while wandering around a local Best Buy [BBY] store, I found myself standing at the Apple [AAPL] kiosk, in front of: an iPad; a 11.6″ MacBook Air; and a 13.3″ MacBook Air. So, of course, I just had to start meanderingly playing with the three devices, each in turn. Was very interesting to see [...]
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During the holiday season, there’s always that frantic search for that cool, new gadget to give your friend or significant other, who happens to be a technical bent. And, like it or not, there is always that discussion about what should be the “latest and greatest” from Apple [AAPL]… It seems to have escalated during [...]
Could there possibly be any company willing to step up on August 28, 2009, the official release date for Apple‘s [AAPL] new version of their popular operating system, OS X. This new version, codenamed Snow Leopard, is 10.6, but it seems to provide quite a few new features and revisions for existing capabilities. What is [...]
If you’re like me and sometimes really tax your Mac (this is assuming you are, in fact, a Mac owner), you may experience a kernel panic. They’re not fun. Some people have observed that they have occurred while using seemingly innocuous applications like Firefox 3.0.x, or a mixture of PowerPC-based and Intel-based applications. But, unfortunately, [...]
At this point, several of you have already experienced the harrowing excitement surrounding the Apple’s [AAPL] OS X 10.5.7 update for Macs. Earlier today, I’d spotted the OS update on my MacBook White while traveling. I did not think anything unusual about it, since it was just started to make the rounds, and nobody had [...]
I’ve discussed the “smaller” end of the computing spectrum for quite some time, while spending considerably less time and effort devoted to the “upper” end of workstation computing. From what I’ve been told, most people I’ve interviewed (including several of you, gentle readers) are increasingly interested in mobile computing and the class of lightweight (or [...]
So, you’ve been following along the recent posts about Apple’s [AAPL] 2009 desktop releases. Or you’ve been drooling over Apple’s recent notebook updates from last year. But you don’t have that extra money sitting prettily on your desk like you did about the same time last year, right? You’d already gone out and blew that [...]
As I mentioned earlier: be careful what you wish for… or at least, be much-much-much more precise in what you ask for. This is the case with these new Apple [AAPL] desktops, to varying degrees. Mac Pro: The Third Generation The biggest change is the Mac Pro line, which now has the Intel Nehalem-tech quad-core Xeon [...]
A Little Bit: Apple [AAPL] earlier today rolled out their 2009 updates for their desktop product lines, as well as a (relatively) quiet MacBook Pro product update. The Mac Pro, the iMac, and the Mac mini have all been updated for this year. Some of you already noticed that the online Apple Store had been shut [...]
