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Benchmark

How Well do MacBooks run Quake 4?

BareFeats has posted a shootout between various Macs running Quake 4 Including three MacBooks: PowerBook G4/1.5 15″ (with Daystar 2.0GHz upgrade) PowerBook G4/1.67 17″ MacBook 13″ (2GHz) MacBook Pro 15″ (2GHz) MacBook Pro 17″ (2.16GHz) We’re still excited about seeing multi-processor support on a state-of-the-art game like Quake 4. It reminds us of “yesteryear” when […]

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Mobile Phone

Sidekick 3 Details

On Tuesday June 6th, the FCC released new juice on the Sidekick 3: the reference guide and owner’s manual. More filings are on the FCC’s main page. (Note: You must change the extension on the downloaded file from “.cgi” to “.pdf”). Most of the rumors that had been published before this release were confirmed. The […]

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MacBook

MacBook Discoloration

Flickr user TSwartz has reported a problem with his white MacBook getting discolored on the palm rests: The spots don’t wash off, I’ve only had the MacBook for two weeks. Genius at Apple Store told me to call Apple about it, as he’s never seen anything like it. My iBook didn’t discolor in the 3 […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Google SketchUp released for Mac OS X

When Google acquired @Last Software on 14 March 2006 I got excited about the prospect of having a tidy little application to design all the house projects that I have planned for the summer. Needless to say, I was a little bummed out when I found out that the company’s SketchUp application was only available […]