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iBook

More on the Intel Core Solo-Powered iBook

AppleInsider posted a juicy article on Friday with information on the new Intel Core Solo-powered iBook replacement. In addition to being reduced to a single 13.3-inch widescreen form factor and possibly shipping in both black and white AI adds some configuration details. Although Apple has reportedly decided to base the new series of iBooks around […]

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iBook

iMacBook Mockup

A Flickr user who goes by the name troelsbay has posted one of the best mockups yet of the presumably-forthcoming 13.3-inch widescreen iMacBooks (ny name) based on the Intel Core Solo processor. Remember kids, it’s only a mockup. I made this today by tweaking and manipulating current iBook material. It’s a 13.3″ MacBook, it’s thinner […]

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iPod

Griffin SmartShare Headphone Splitter (Updated)

Like any good mobile technologist, there’s a few stock items that I carry everywhere in my PowerBook gear bag. One of them is a headphone splitter so that I can jack a friend into my iPod or PowerBook during air or train travel. This little doodad can be found for about two bucks from Radio […]

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Hardware

FireWire Evolution Redux

Contributed by: James Wiebe, CEO, WiebeTech LLC 15 months ago, I wrote a white paper which was entitled, ‘FireWire Evolution’. The paper contained a lot of information on the history of FireWire, and delved deeply into the marketing path which Apple had taken with FireWire 800. I probably was a little too careful in my […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: PowerBook G4 Defects

Apple is having some serious, documented issues with the 15-inch PowerBook G4s that were released in October 2005 (a.k.a “High-Resolution” or “Double-Layer SD”) and it appears that they are ignoring them. Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.