Well, Apple has finally updated the Powerbook line. After more than a year since the last upgrade, users expected some substantial speed bumps. What the got is a different story. Instead of the rumored dual-core G4, or dreamed of G5, we got a minimal 1.5ghz increase in speed. However, Apple did add some sorely needed [...]
Some evil x86 geek has taken our beloved Mac mini and desecrated it by putting a Nano-ITX form factor motherboard in it. Poor Mac mini. Please send me the original components so that I may give them a good home
After a long day of playing with my new toy, I have a few gripes. Small as they may seem, they are substantial enough to consider possible iModification. The first shortcoming I noticed was that when working in indirect sunlight, on overcast days, the feedback LED’s are almost impossible to see. This isn’t much of [...]
Best Buy now has the 1.25GHz Mac Mini and the 1.42GHz Mac Mini now listed for pre-ordering up on their online store. Best Buy’s site also notes that its stores will soon begin selling Apple’s 512MB iPod shuffle–but not the 1GB iPod shuffle. Both models are available online. Best Buy had previously been selling Apple’s [...]
The Mac Media Center Project, an open source project to develop a complete media center interface for the Mac mini, launched this past week. There’s already links up for how to connect all your A/V hardware (also see Engadget’s how-to for more on that), but the crux of the project is developing integrated software to [...]
I finally got my 1GB Shuffle today. The nice FedEx man dropped off a huge box. (huge relative to the size of the shuffle its self). Upon opening said box, I was confronted with 4 things:
1 iPod Shuffle box; approx the size of 4 jewel cases stacked on top of each other.
1 plastic bag [...]
(Hat tip: MacNN)
Chalk this one up to still being a rumor, but one I think is in line with Apple’s “iPod halo” marketing strategy. According to a report released by Merril Lynch, Best Buy may begin selling Macs again. The analyst firm said that the consumer electronic retailer could begin to sell Macs–specifically the Mac [...]
In a story run by both The Register and Gizmodo, Apple apparently had a snippet of HTML that included the reference to “apple_g5_powerbook” on it’s powerbook page.
It’s gone from Apple’s site now (The Register reports it being gone within an hour of their finding it). The code referenced a 1 by 1 pixel place-holder [...]
As we reported recently, some of the Mac Mini customization options have been lowered in price a mere 2 weeks after it’s release to market.
Well rest assured (if you’re one of the folks who bought and upgraded early), Apple will be refunding the difference in price between what you paid, and what is now being [...]
The DLO iDirect Remote Control for iPod will set you back $50, but will also set you back away from your iPod with full control of its music.
There’s a small IR adapter that fits into the headphone jack - resembling the size of the iTrip from Griffin - and then a small palm sized remote [...]
Daniel Kushner has dissected the iPod Shuffle…literally. He explains in detail the inner workings of the Shuffle with fun pictures to go along with it. An interesting read indeed.
(Hat tip: AppleInsider)
Target has pulled the Mac Mini from the Target.com website, four days after listing it as a purchasable item. In response to customer emails about the sudden disapperance, Target cited availability concerns as the sole factor that prompted it to remove the product from its store.
Seems everybody and their dog wants to use a Mac mini as a media center, I know I do. Currently there are a few solution out there for doing this, most of the best ones from El Gato. Gadget site galore Engadget posted a how-to on this earlier.
Needing to buy two different devices from El [...]
The Apple Store has dropped pricing of it’s custom components for the Mac Mini.
1GB Ram now down to $325
80GB Hard drive down to $50
Wireless combo of Bluetooth and Airport Extreme down to $99
Also, the superdrive option is now an 8x offering rather than the previous 4x.
My guess is (and this is probably way obvious) that [...]
Not sure what CompUSA is thinking…but if you’re interested in getting one of the new Mac mini’s from there, you better be willing to drop some cash. They are selling the systems for the low low price of $1220.50. Make note of one of the headings in the product description: “Inexpensive, But Never Cheap” (maybe [...]
Om Malik points to a post by Jonathan Greene speculating about an alleged upcoming DVR/Video-on-Demand solution from Apple.
I’ve not seen anyone mention DRM as part of the picture. Or has this already been figured out by Netflix through a subscription model? Would one be able to buy movies or just temporarily “rent them”? Would renting [...]
Looks like the Apple users in Europe aren’t to happy with the price Apple has set for the Mac mini in their country. In-fact, a petition has been started to the tune of over 8000 signatures as of this post. The petition starts with:
We’d like to make an appeal to Apple on the pricing of [...]
While at MacWorld Expo, my fiancee’s goal was to find a good set of noise reduction headphones for her iPod Mini. She rides the Washington Metro to work every day and it’s a fairly noisy environment, where she found herself constantly raising and lowering the volume of the music. She wanted headphones where she could [...]
A quick note on Apple’s In Ear Headphones, many people have bought them and quickly came to the conclusion that they were horrifically bad.
However, the secret is that you just have to shove these things right IN your ears (not too far, I’m not trying to cause any injuries here). Once the malleable plastic is [...]
One thing I did when I was planning my trip to MacWorld was plan for how I was going to handle internet access in the hotel room. I’d stayed at the King George Hotel off of Union Square before for WWDC and had liked it, so I was going to stay there again this time [...]
