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Daring Fireball
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Wednesday, Oct 21
★ Apple Netbook Claim Chowder
18 March 2009, Shane O’Neill at PC World: “Recession Breathes Life Into Windows PCs as Apple Gasps for Air”: Nonetheless, design hubris and slumping sales will cause Apple to tap a hot segment of computer market. So Apple will be forced to enter the “netbook” market due to slumping MacBook...
Sunday, Oct 4
Ixnay on the Blu-ray
My updated if-I-were-a-betting-man wagers for upcoming Apple hardware announcements: all-new iMacs, all-new low-end (plastic) MacBook, new keyboard and mouse, speed-bump/price-cut Mac Mini update. Scratch that previous bet on Blu-ray in the iMacs, though — the old word on the str...
Monday, Jan 5
★ Macworld Expo 2009 Predictions
There are rumors that Apple might release software that allows any Mac to serve as an Apple TV. I know nothing about such software, but if you think of it more as the unification of Front Row and Apple TV, it makes perfect sense. But I don’t expect Apple to abandon selling dedicated Apple TV hard...
Tuesday, Oct 28
★ The Richard Solo iPhone/iPod Backup Battery
If you read my iPhone 3G review, you know that my biggest complaint was with regard to battery life. The problem isn’t that the iPhone’s battery life is poor compared to other similarly-featured phones. The problem is that the iPhone pushes the limits of modern battery technology — what mak...
Friday, Oct 24
★ Good RAM Prices From Apple on New MacBooks
But it ends up that Apple’s RAM pricing for the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros is extremely competitive. There’s only one upgrade configuration — going from the standard 2 GB to 4 — and for both the MacBook and MacBook Pro, Apple is charging $150. This same upgrade costs $142 from Crucial, $135...
Thursday, Oct 16
★ Translation From Weasel-Speak to English of the Entirety of Duncan Riley’s Second Post-MacBook-Introduction-Event Update to His Widely-Cited Week-Ago Report That Apple Was Going to Announce an ‘$800 Laptop’
The difference between $899 and $900 is semantics. The difference between $899 and $800 is a hundred dollars. If our source saw “899” and didn’t “get” the “99” part, it suggests our source is either visually or mentally handicapped. As a full-time technology blogger, I am fully aware that ev...
Tuesday, Oct 14
★ Contains Spoilers
The new MacBook Pro is not available with a matte-finish display. If you don’t like glossy, you can suck it. (I bought a matte-finish display for my MacBook Pro back in March, so don’t shoot the messenger.) In the new (aluminum) MacBook lineup, there are only two standard configurations: $12...
