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The Mac Experience
Apr 28th
A quick couple of months have passed since I migrated from a Microsoft Windows environment to Apple’s OS X — the experience so far has turned out to be nothing shy of rapturous.
I’m still grounded in Microsoft at work, but have no complaints doing so — it keeps me unbiased.
I’ll say this about Mac-
Apple’s Stovepipe Monopoly
Mar 7th
Apple makes some of the most fascinating and design savvy hardware on the personal computer market. Apple also produces award-winning operating systems that offer a proven and stable user experience.
But is Apple’s coupling of hardware and software creating a significantly unfair environment for hardware vendors who want to put Mac OS X onto a different set of hardware specs?
Smartphones Enrich Your Life
Mar 5th
If you’re not already living your life with a smartphone, then you could be closing your eyes to an entirely new world.
Unlike legacy cell phones that function mainly as a telephony device [with web as an afterthought], smartphones like the iPhone boast enriched communications where ‘everything web’ and ‘voice’ is brought to you full-time – on demand – in one tidy pocket-size package.
Apple Does Not Need A Netbook To Be Their Savior
Feb 25th
I am unable to figure out, for the life of me, why there are so many people who blindly believe that Apple needs to release a netbook. Most folks claim that for Apple to stay viable because of the economic situation facing America, and how that sudden fallout is going to affect their ability to sell niche products at elevated prices, they need to do the smart thing and release an inexpensive Mac netbook.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Replaceable Laptop Batteries!
Jan 9th
One of the more provocative news items to come out of Macworld this week was the retooling of the MacBook Pro 17” to no longer house a removable lithium ion battery. Instead, Apple engineers custom-designed a lithium-polymer cell battery and essentially built the battery in to the laptops under-carriage. According to Apple, doing so has eliminated the huge space requirements standard removable batteries normally require:
They built the battery right into the computer, eliminating the space-consuming mechanisms and housings that standard removable batteries require. The result is a battery that’s 40 percent bigger than the previous generation and offers up to 8 hours of wireless productivity on a single charge — all in a notebook that’s less than an inch thin, weighs just 6.6 pounds, 3 and remains the same price as the previous-generation model.
This is certain to be the major talking point for the foreseeable future – people will most definitely complain about how Apple is increasingly making it more difficult to self-service your gear. iPod batteries are not changeable and are perceived to have a short lifespan, so consumers will likely have similar feelings about this transformation.
But the real question is this: how many times have you ever used a second battery? How many people even own a second battery? I bet the answer is inconsequential, hence why we are where we are today.
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