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The Apple Core: Federal government clears MacBook Pro batteries

According to the Feds MacBook Pro owners concerned about the safety of their Lithium Ion battery packs can breathe a sigh of relief, but only if the battery serial number has been checked against Apple’s list of recalled cells noted in their voluntary exchange program. Recalled MacBook Pro batteries are identified by a serial number […]

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The Apple Core: AppleTube

Robert Young wrote an article for GigaOM suggesting that Apple buy YouTube and I have to admit that it’s not as crazy as I first thought. The problem is valuations. Young figures that YouTube can fetch $1B in the Web 2.0 market and I just don’t know if Apple will pony up that much cash. […]

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The Apple Core: Apple says ‘no’ to Paris, ‘yes’ to Cologne

The largest Apple trade show in Europe runs from 12-16 September, 2006 but neither Steve Jobs nor Apple will be making a keynote address at Apple-Expo in Paris next month. Some are reading too much into the decision claiming that the no-show is a snub of the French government for attempting to force Apple to […]

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The Apple Core: More on Merom ship dates

There has been plenty of speculation as to when Apple will upgrade MacBooks and MacBook Pros from the Intel Core Duo (code-named “Yonah”) chips to the faster and cooler Merom (a.k.a. Core 2 Duo) processors. Initially I heard that Merom was on tap to land in MacBook Pros in time for the holidays – late […]

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The Apple Core: Apple tops customer satisfaction index

CNet’s Tom Krazit reports that Apple Computer has been chosen as having the best customer satisfaction “among computer individual vendors” in a new study. Apple earned a score of 83 – a 2.5 percent improvement over last year. Dell improved on its 2005 score by 5.4 percent to garner a 78. Read the rest of […]