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MacBook Pro

Price Deathmatch: MacBook Pro v. Dell Inspiron E1705

Mike McHargue decided to see just how much of a price premium exists between Macs and PCs. This is a much easier task now that you can match components exactly. Mike compares the MacBook Pro to the Dell Inspiron E1705 and his results are a pleasant surprise. Final Price: MacBook Pro: $2,399 Inspiron E1705: $2,341 […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: PC Card = Obsolete

With Apple’s announcement of the MacBook Pro they also obsoleted a popular notebook technology – the PC Card slot (formerly PCMCIA). ExpressCard/34 is a blazing fast replacement for the venerable PC Card slot found on many notebooks, including several generations of PowerBook. ExpressCard is a serial interface delivering between 480 Mbytes/sec and 2.5 Gbit/sec/direction of […]

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MacBook Pro

Jobs: MBP Battery Life "About the Same" as PBG4

Business Week: How is battery life with the MacBook? Jobs: About the same—this with a dual processor [chip]! Each processor is as fast as a G5, and the battery life will be the same as [the previous PowerBook’s] G4. Read more of Business Week’s exclusive interview with Jobs in “A (New) Chip on His Shoulder.”

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: iTunes Phones Home

Apple used the Macworld Expo in San Francisco last week to announce a new version of iTunes, version 6.0.2, that “includes stability and performance improvements over iTunes 6.0.1.” One of the “improvements” is the iTunes MiniStore which an interesting little piece of code that looks at what you’re listening to and suggests artists and songs […]

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iMac

iMac (Core Duo) Dissected

Like a surgeon Mitsunobu Tanaka, ph.D, (a.k.a. Kodawarisan) has already disassembled the iMac Core Duo. The primary server is already down due to bandwidth, so you’ll have to check out the mirror site.