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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: MacBook Pro arriving fashionably late to the Merom party

Almost every PC notebook vendor and their brother is hawking Core 2 Duo powered notebooks these days and Mac-heads are starting to get a little miffed. Understandably so. Didn’t Apple jumped into bed with Intel because they had a great chip pipeline and they could deliver the silicon – fast? Yes and yes. This time […]

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Environment

More Bad News for Enviro Mac-Heads: MacBooks are Toxic

We all know that Greenpeace isn’t too happy with Apple’s commitment to the environment. The latest news is that Apple portables have some of the highest amounts of toxic chemicals in them of 5 manufacturers tested (Acer, Apple, Dell, HP, Sony). The MacBook has the highest concentration of tetrabromobisphenol A, which is a flame retardant. […]

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Mobile Phone

Palm Treo 750v: A First Look

Palm users expecting a major advance from the Treo 750v are going to be disappointed, at least on the basis of our first look. However, it does represent several firsts for Palm in Europe. The physical specifications of the Treo 750v are almost exactly the same as those of the Treo 700w, which has been […]

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battery

Toshiba Recalls 830,000 Sony Notebook Batteries

Toshiba said Tuesday it would replace about 340,000 laptop computer batteries made by Sony, the latest in a string of Sony battery woes. The batteries, used in Dynabook and Dynabook Satellite laptops manufactured between March and May this year, could fail on the road because of problems with storing and transmitting power, Toshiba spokesman Keisuke […]

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iTunes

Apple’s Artwork Olive Branch is a Treasure Trove of Data

This just hit me. Allowing customers to download album artwork for their whole library, regardless of where the music came from, is brilliant, instant market research by Apple. Apple’s been careful this time to tell the user that iTunes will have to send data to get the album art back, and to say that no […]