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well overall i’m disappointed at apple’s new announcements:

new macminis - overpriced in my opinion, especially with only 512MB ram. even with the speed improvements, putting the 1.67 core duo @800 dollars base price is too much. they should have put a tv tuner in there. it makes absolutely no sense to keep [...]

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Regular-Expressions.info - Regex Tutorial, Examples and Reference - Regexp Patterns
Something useful for home and work.
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Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X
Apple’s own tutorial on the subject
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Logahead - Just blog.
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TeleYapper. Apple Event Feb 28th. TextPayMe (Sign up to help braytek provide an Xbox360 for raffle!)

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got a request to do this over at macnn forums. thought i’d share the results with you here
update: just got some perspective on these results:

Athlon FX-60 (2.8GHz): 692
Intel Pentium 955 EE (3.46GHz): 666
Athlon64 X2-4800+ (2.4GHz): 638
Intel Pentium 840D (3.2GHz): 532
MacBook Pro (2.0GHz): 563

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Posted in apple, macbookpro, macintosh

i just ran a quick xbench on the macbook pro, here are the results. score: 63.56
update: per user comment, i disabled quartz beam sync and reran the test. results are here. new score: 80.16 It should be noted that XBench is not optimized for the intel platform and these numbers should [...]

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yup, to my surprise it arrived this morning. i have posted some initial pictures over at flickr. check em out:

very good initial impressions. of course, it smokes everything in my house (all G4s). i tried running coconutbattery to get some indication of the max battery capacity/life, but the app crashed. [...]

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am i really ready to switch my mac experience to the intel platform? i compiled a list of my most used applications on osx, and determined whether they were universal binary or rosetta emulation. out of my 24 most used applications, 14 were universal binaries and 10 were rosetta emulation. only one [...]

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Sony HUB announced. Camino goes 1.0. Allpeers exclusive screenshots at techcrunch. Core duo power bug is software.

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macbook pro eta: Feb 22

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