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Apple’s Magical Tablet – Verbal Confirmation In <48 Hours
Jan 26th
Apple fanboys across the globe are ready to blindly plunk down cash on what’s being billed as a technology game changer. Enter…Apple’s magical tablet.
“Apple is holding a “special event” on Jan. 27 to “come see our latest creation,” with invitations being sent out just seconds ago. 10am PST, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco.” –Gizmodo
We’re already guessing this is a touch-screen type computer that looks and feels like an overgrown iPhone.
Will it be called an iSlate? Are you buying one? Two?
Apple’s announcement coming in less than 48 hours.
Fusion – VMware Virtualization For The Mac
May 19th
Loaded with max usability, VMware’s Fusion brings its polished OS X integration coupled with a super sexy feature called – Unity. Offering the ability to launch and run applications like they were native to your Mac, then switch quickly between those apps and dock them like any others, Unity easily blurs the dividing lines between Windows and Mac OS X interoperability.
First Time Mac Users: You Do Not Need to Install Windows
May 12th
Being one of a very small handful of Mac users at work I am inundated with Apple related questions. The majority of the inquiries I field are from people who just recently purchased a Mac, like as in a couple days ago recent! One of the first queries I almost always receive is, “how do I install Windows XP?” I hate to break it to you Mac n00b: you do not need to install Windows. OS X does everything Windows does but better.
Adobe Installs and Updates on OS X Suck
Mar 12th
Adobe makes some of the best software products available for OS X, most notably Photoshop and Acrobat. While the products are top notch quality, for some reason Adobe has trouble programming efficient installation and software update routines. A simple Adobe Acrobat update weighing in at roughly 30MB lasted approximately 20 minutes to install on my 2.4Ghz MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM and a 320GB 7200RPM HDD. If that is not the epitome of inefficiency then I do not know what is!
Microsoft Announces Foray into Retail Store Sales Ala Apple
Feb 14th
In what I can only describe as an obvious attempt to be cool and continue their “me too” saga, Microsoft has announced plans to open a “small number” of retail stores to sell their wares, and has even hired a 27-year Wal-Mart veteran to head up the operation. David Porter, who is joining Microsoft fresh off the boat from DreamWorks Animation SKG, after leading the entertainment company’s worldwide product distribution for seven years, will commence work on February 16, 2008. Microsoft has not released any specific details about their retail strategy other than to say they hope to “create a better PC and Microsoft retail purchase experience for consumers worldwide through the development and opening of the company’s own retail stores.”
Unfortunately for Microsoft, unlike Apple, the company does not sell complete PC-hardware and software solutions with the exception of the X-BOX, which is a gaming console and decidedly not a PC. One has to ask, what on God’s green Earth does Microsoft expect to sell at these stores other than plastic and cardboard boxes with round disks inside?
Microsoft Comeback Or – Nail In The Coffin
Feb 7th
Vista is dead.
If you purchased a Vista upgrade or ordered a PC with Vista pre-installed, you probably felt the pain that goes along with a severely maimed operating system. Then only to have Microsoft abandon it two years later — in favor of its clone — Windows 7.
Is it over for Microsoft’s OS market dominance? Has Apple scored enough market share during Vista’s follies to get their OSX foot in the mainstream door? Then there’s Ubuntu — did they too [along with Apple] bite into user share for a run on the Microsoft bank?
iPhone ‘Satellite’ Radio
Feb 4th
Welcome to the world connected. Apple’s iPhone stands poised to reinvent radio as we know it.
We’re all aware that Apple produces preeminent software and hardware platforms — especially notable when they brought us the iPhone.
Leaps ahead of its nearest competitor — with Star Trek-like touch screen technology and multi-vendor app integration — the iPhone is ready to see yet another serious debut in the form of a popular world media. Satellite radio.
A Laptop Price Comparison for the Mac Haters
Feb 1st
The number one reason for not purchasing a Mac that I hear the Mac hating crowd is that Apple products are outrageously expensive. The mere proclamation of spending over $1000 on a simple MacBook rather than $499 on a netbook is the basic mantra most of the haters live by. Rather than competing on a level playing field by comparing the features of each laptop, haters lock in solely on the price and use the higher price point to their illogical advantage.
Are Mac laptops really that much more expensive than similar Wintel laptops? If you look at the prices at face value then the answer is a resounding YES. It is only when you delve in to a deeper contrast that you find the answer to not be so cut and dry.
Macworld 2009 – Apple’s Subliminal Message
Jan 8th
Macworld this year — a major marketing bonanza for Apple — was clearly not the hype event Apple typically puts on for the tongue wagging Mac enthusiast.
With no Steve Jobs at the Macworld helm and too many long-winded presentations (almost 25 minutes were spent selling the new face recognition feature in iPhoto) well, one had to wonder: Has Apple sent us a message on the current status of their company.
Apple And Microsoft Still In Love After 25 Years
Jan 7th
Redmond reported Tuesday that their Mac Business Unit (MacBU) is running strong after 25 years. Eric Wilfred (GM of the MacBU) says:
“We started on the desktop and today the MacBU delivers new ways for Mac users to connect to Microsoft productivity on the Web.”
Microsoft and Apple actually collaborating on something? Yes. And for 25 years to boot.
Collaboration from these giants is exactly what business users need. And Microsoft’s movement toward web integration in its Mac software offerings is — to say the least — welcome and on a timely track.
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