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My Thoughts On the Macworld Keynote

19 Jan 2008

Now that everyone’s had a chance to digest the new announcements from Apple at Macworld 2008, I’ll go ahead and express my thoughts on each announcement:
Time Capsule [link]

From Apple’s perspective, this creates a great incentive for users to upgrade to Leopard. I believe users will see the benefit of Time Machine and also justify [...]

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Tags: apple, chrispirillo, iphone, ipodtouch, macbookair, macworld

The Leopard Upgrade

In: apple| macintosh

27 Oct 2007

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Apple, Inc unleashed their newest operating system, dubbed, Mac OS X (pronounced “Oh Es Ten”) Leopard, or just “Leopard”. You haven’t heard? I’m sorry. Well this update to the popular operating system, “Tiger”, has been on the hearts and minds of Apple geeks for almost two years. If [...]

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A lesson learned

In: apple| geek| macintosh

9 Mar 2006

A little while ago, a company named Apple taught me a lesson that I should have remembered from Public Enemy in the late 80s: “Don’t believe the hype!” I’ve learned to recognize speculation for what it is and keep my expectations low. I saw in in endo today that there is another [...]

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Is your Mac sleepy?

8 Mar 2006

I saw a hint today on macosxhints.com regarding the ability to put your Mac to sleep using the Apple remote. This little cool feature works with Macs with infrared sensors (with FrontRow preloaded basically) I immediately thought, “That’s a cool feature”, but then I read on:
Note that if you happen to use a [...]

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apple new stuff reactions

In: apple| ipod| macintosh

28 Feb 2006

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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macbook pro cinebench results

In: apple| macbookpro| macintosh

21 Feb 2006

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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macbook pro xbench results

In: apple| macbookpro| macintosh

21 Feb 2006

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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macbook pro hath arrived

In: apple| macbookpro| macintosh

21 Feb 2006

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. [...]