Along with the release of the Macbook Air on Wednesday, Apple did two things. They dropped the price of the external SuperDrive from $99 to $79, and then made it completely unnecessary. The Macbook Air was originally criticized for its lack of an optical media drive, limiting its ability to install new software. To mitigate …
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Oct 13
OSX 10.7 Lives!
This was a delightful surprise for me to gush over with my morning coffee: Apple has announced an October 20th press conference titled “Back to the Mac”. Obviously the conference will deal with the Mac platform and may include new hardware and a most definitely a preview of Apple’s newest operating system: OSX 10.7. See …
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Jul 28
New Mac Hardware
Before I begin, excuse the usual lack of quality and possible gramatical errors in this post. This was very sudden news to me in my Internet-deprived state and I’ve resorted to punching this post up on my iPhone over an EDGE network. Yesterday was a pretty exciting day for me. Apple has finally updated the …
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May 30
My Geekbench Odyssey
Yesterday I went to the Apple store, looking into buying a new computer for college. Months ago I resolved that if I could get the money, I would be buying a 15-inch Macbook Pro. That became more solidified when the most recent updates to the computers showed that the 15 and 17 inch models are …
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May 24
Goodbye ‘Get a Mac’ Ads
Over the weekend it was confirmed that Apple’s long standing “Get a Mac” ad campaign featuring Justin Long as the hip and youthful Mac and John Hodgman as the comical and buffoonish PC has been canceled. The ad campaign was started back in 2006 as a sort of rebranding of Apple’s culture. Instead of being …
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Jan 13
Core i5 Macbook Pros Leaked. Oh the Possibilities….
Whoops. Looks like Intel got a little trigger happy and let loose Apple’s plans to upgrade the Macbook Pros a little sooner than planned. Promotions given to Intel’s Retail Edge Program outlined a contest where the prize was “…2 chances to win one of 2 MacBook Pro laptops with the accelerated response of an Intel …
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