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Hardware PowerMac G5

Amazon Spills the Beans on new G5 Configuration (Updated)

Amazon has spilled the beans on a new G5 configuration. Part Number: M9749LL/A Dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5 processors 512MB of DDR SDRAM 250GB hard drive 16x Dual Layer SuperDrive (CD/DVD+RW) Ships with Mac OS X10.4 Tiger Amazon is selling the machine for US$2,994.99, but it is not listed in stock as of yet. [Update] […]

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Apple Store To The Rescue

After two weeks at Apple Depot awaiting a back ordered motherboard, the Santa Rosa Apple Store retreived it and gave me a new PowerBook. Read More…

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Consumer Electronics

My Motorola DCT6412 DVR Mea Culpa (Updated)

Back in April I was highly critical of Motorola’s new DCT6412 DVR (being distributed by Comcast in my area). I had a lot of problems with my first and second DCT6412 units (freezing, audio dropouts and missed recordings) but after swapping the second out for the third I couldn’t be happier. Some background is in […]

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Consumer Electronics

Review: Comcast DVR – Skip it (Updated 3x)

The Comcast DVR (a Motorola DCT 6412) has more bugs in it than a picnic basket left out on a summer day. And I left TiVo for this?!