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MacBook Pro

AP Reviews the MacBook Pro

Associated Press technology reporter Matthew Fordahlk has posted a review of the MacBook Pro. Here’s a snippit: What about the all-important battery life? Starting with it fully charged, I surfed the Web, listened to music and engaged in other regular tasks for an impressive 3 hours and 10 minutes before the system went to sleep. […]

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Ask PowerPage: Universal Binary Browsers

Dear PowerPage: I’m just wondering about Firefox on the new MBP. Does Firefox have to use Rosetta, or is there a native version available. If there is no native version yet, what speed does it seem to work at? Thanks, Chris — Hello Chris, Currently Firefox 1.5.0.1 is a PowerPC application which means that it […]

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Software

Disk Utilities and Intel Macs

I wrote to each of Micromat (TechToolPro) and Alsoft (DiskWarrior) on the status of their products with respect to the new Intel Macs. Both said they will have new versions soon which run on Intel and that their current versions should not be run on Intel Macs. Micromat said that if you run their current […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Tablet Envy

In case you missed it, there’s a whole lot going on with tablet development these days – and it’s not in the Mac camp. The Wintel community is abuzz about Intel’s Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) platform and a new product from Microsoft called Origami due to launch on March 9. The very stealthy Origami Project […]