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New MacBook Pro 15″ (Penryn) reviewed

May 26, 2008

PC Magazine, not a hotbed of Mac FanBoy activity, published a review of the new MacBook Pro, giving it an Editor’s rating of 4.5 (of 5) and a reader rating of 5. The review comments on the increased battery life and other new additions, and says the following: There are other new additions worth talking [...]

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New MacBook Pro speedbump

May 13, 2008

Without a lot of fanfare, Apple moved the top-of-the line ‘Book Pro to a 2.6GHz Penryn processor (was 2.5GHz), available with up to a 300 GB hard drive (4200rpm). It also has a Multi-Touch trackpad, with the ability to pinch, swipe or rotate to “enlarge text, advance through photos, or adjust an image”. More details [...]

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Time Machine kernel panics?

May 13, 2008

A report on MacFixit regarding Time Machine backups to Time Capsules or wire-connected drives causing kernel panics is disturbing, to say the least. Apparently, for at least a few users, the sparse-bundle (used to store backed up data) is becoming corrupted somehow. A temporary fix is to delete the sparse-bundle, but the corruption can continue. [...]

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cnet Reviews the new iMac

May 2, 2008

cnet has a thorough review the new 24: 2.8GHz iMac, with comparisons to the previous model, the new 20″ iMac, the Mini and 3 Windows competitors. This is another well written review from Matthew Elliott. He notes We were impressed with the 24-inch iMac’s showing last year in the labs, and this latest update showed [...]

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More on the new iMac… the iconic all-in-one

May 2, 2008

PC Magazine has an online review of the new 24″ Penryn processor iMac. It’s a good read if you are interested in Mac hardware. It’s a better read if you are thinking of buying a new Mac. Joel Santo Domingo writes: The iMac’s E8235 processor is one of the new 45-nm “Penryn” models, and as [...]

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New iMacs… Gaming on Macs?

April 30, 2008

The new line of iMacs is interesting in itself, but what’s Apple really up to? Might it be creating a true Mac gaming machine? The 3.06GHZ processor option for the 24″ iMac is a special run on a CPU already in production, overclocked to handle the 3.06 GHZ load and 1,066 MHz. It’s definitely on [...]

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New iMacs!

April 30, 2008

Ok, I’m a day or so late, but hey, I’ve been busy! Never mind, the new iMacs are out. They don’t look any different, but the bang-for-buck measure has certainly gone up. The 20″ is available with 2.4 or 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors, the 24″ standard is a 2.8 GHz screamer that [...]

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MacBook Air: overheating, leading to freezes?

April 30, 2008

MacFixit has an article today with reports of freezes from overheating. Processor-intensive tasks and Time Machine are culprits, it seems. The article offers several overheating fixes, including keeping the Air on a flat, hard surface and avoiding soft or pillowy surfaces. The MacBook Air SMC update 1.0 should be applied and can help. I suspect [...]

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Mac – PC showdown

April 16, 2008

Popular Mechanics just published an article online, to appear in the May 20089 issue, called Mac vs. PC: The Ultimate Lab Test for New Desktops & Laptops. This article by Glenn Derene tested 2 all-in-one desktops and 2 laptops (one each Mac and PC) and matched them as closely as possible. The Gateway One PC [...]

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MacBook Air review – after 3 weeks sole use

April 7, 2008

Macworld posted a Dan Frakes review of the MacBook Air a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been a little jammed up, or it would have been posted earlier. He had the chance to use the Air as his only laptop for 3 weeks, and his conclusions surprised me. He liked it! Read the article here. [...]

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