just got this in my inbox. i’m sorry apple, but i already have a valentine. you seem to be pulling my heart strings, but this guy’s taken…

To Our Valued Apple Customer:
Today we announced that this week Apple will begin shipping the new 15.4-inch MacBook Pro featuring the Intel Core [...]

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what a way to start my day. apple has announced that they have started shipping macbook pros (mine hasn’t shipped yet), but they also announced this little gem:

All models of the new MacBook Pro will ship with faster Intel Core Duo processors than previously announced, delivering even greater performance at no additional cost. The [...]

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i heard about it. tried it. it works. man does it work! took all of 2 minutes which included me turning off my useless osx firewall.

no, itunes music store songs don’t work, but if you’re like me, that doesn’t matter as 95% of my library is straight cd rips. now [...]

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have you all noticed the upsurge in pc vs mac debates on the web? usually around macworld, the debates are refueled since apple usually announces something new, but this year it’s a bit abnormal. i think i know why:
the line between macs and pcs is not so discrete anymore.
with the introduction of intel [...]

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arstechnica has done a nice review of the new intel imac. most notably, they have done some benchmark comparisons with the g5 imac and the dual g5 powermac. overall the new imac did very well and rosetta emulation numbers look promising. i was a bit surprised at the xbench graphics numbers while [...]

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here is a nice 15 minute demostration of the macbook pro in usage. kinda gives you a preview of how it performs.

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the os x page has been updated to say:

Meet the world’s most advanced operating system. Instantly find what you’re looking for. Get information with a single click. Mac OS X Tiger delivers 200+ new features which make it easier than ever to find, access and enjoy everything on your computer. Whether that machine is Intel- [...]

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the new macbook, the new imac, and the new ilife. that pretty much sums it up. nice keynote. look for summaries/commentaries on the next braytek podcast episode.

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it’s about 40 minutes away and i can’t wait. what will apple unveil? new plasmas, new mac minis, new powerbooks, new ibooks? i just hope its some type of hardware and not all software. i want intel macs now!

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the killer feature i mentioned in my previous article for podcasts, chapters, is now possible thanks to apple. they have released a command line tool (command line? is this apple?) to insert chapters into your podcasts. the tool can be downloaded here.
also check out apple’s tutorial on creating podcasts with garageband. [...]

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