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Five Apple Retail Flops

Written on August 12, 2009 by Chris Ryan and 30 people have commented

As Microsoft proudly ventures into the retail world that has already seen quick entrances and exits by other vendors like Gateway and Dell, many Apple fans are looking towards the new Microsoft stores with mixed feelings.
Some of the more dedicated fanboys are quick to call Microsoft a copycat (and perhaps rightly so), but one thing [...]

OLED Technology Could Make Its Way Into a New High End Mini-MacBook

Written on March 12, 2009 by Charles Moore and 7 people have commented

An interesting bit of scuttlebutt from Australian news site Smarthouse’s David Richards says Apple is close to launching a touchscreen “netbook type” computer according to new sources in Asia, which is a pretty widely-disseminated rumor this week. But what I hadn’t got wind of before is Richards’ report that Apple has been exploring the use [...]

New MacBook Pro Battery: More, Longer, but Locked In

Written on January 06, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 28 people have commented

Well, the Macworld keynote has come and gone, and we received a lot of new software from Apple, but not too much on the hardware side. In fact, the long-awaited missing unibody MacBook Pro is the only machine to come out of the event. But it might not be the laptop itself which becomes the [...]

Learning to Love Technology: My Wife and the iPhone

Written on December 30, 2008 by Nick Santilli and 23 people have commented

As I think it goes with most geeks, our better half (yes as a matter of fact, some of us have girlfriends and wives!) usually isn’t the most technical of people.
My lovely wife can use a computer just fine, but she’s not the type of person who considers that technology can be leveraged to make [...]