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PC Notebook

Voodoo Envy u:909 – Insane Gaming Notebook

The Voodoo ENVY u:909 may be the most powerful notebook yet – too bad it only runs Windows. The u:909 features a 19-inch monitor running at 1680 x 1050 resolution powered by dual NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GTX 256 MB graphic cards. The brains behind the machine is an AMD Turion 64 processor. All that gaming […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Apple Premium Reseller Program

Last week I reported that there was a movement afoot in Amsterdam forcing Apple authorized resellers to change their names from “Apple Centre” to “Apple Premium Reseller” and how it may be a sign that Apple is planning to open their own line of Apple Stores in the area and essentially compete with their own […]

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MacBook

MacBook 13-Inch 3D Game Performance Benchmarked

BareFeats just ran Doom 3, Quake 4 and UT2004 tests on a 2GHz MacBook 13″ and compared those results to the MacBook Pro, PowerBook and iBook. As expected the MacBook 13″ was a real “slouch,” even being beat by the iBook.

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: PowerPage wins on appeal

The PowerPage and I got a big win today in the Apple vs. Does case. Our petition in O’Grady, et al. v. Superior Court of Santa Clara County (Case: H028579, 6th District) was granted. All discussion of the Apple case are being posted on my ZDNet blog. Abstracts are posted here for interested readers. Read […]

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MacBook

Plastic Strip Blocking Exhaust Vent on MacBook

It’s not clear how widespread this issue is, but at least one user has dicovered that a thin plastic film was covering the exhaust vent of his new MacBook and prevented it from cooling properly:  Just as many other MacBooks, mine got really hot and that got me a bit concerned. This is my first […]