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The Apple Core: Sony rips off MacBook design

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Sony may have taken this one a little too far. The consumer electronic giant’s latest notebook looks like a blatant ripoff of Apple’s wildly popular MacBook. Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.

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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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The Apple Core: Apple should release an iPod game SDK

A nice feature of the new iPod update is support for games but the downside is that you can only buy them from Apple. There’s a movement afoot by the HomeBrew community to pry open Apple’s proprietary iPod game package (.ipg) format and reverse engineer a way to load third-party games onto the device. Read […]

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The Apple Core: iPod enhancements withheld from previous hardware

Apple’s new “enhanced fifth-generation” iPod (with video) comes with some pretty interesting new features and I want to take a look at which of them you can expect to work on the previous iPods. The new iPod e5g comes with several software-based features including searching (pictured) via virtual keyboard, smart scrolling which allows you to […]

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The Apple Core: Apple announces new iPods; iTunes 7; iTV

Apple announced upgrades to all three iPod lines (iPod, nano and shuffle), iTunes 7 with movies and gave a sneak peak at an Apple set-top box slated to ship in January 2007 at a media event at the Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco. Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The […]