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Extreme PowerBook: Three Story PowerBook Drop Test

This PowerBook was accidentally dropped from a three-story balcony and survived – partially. Although the screen was shattered, the data was easily recovered via Target Disk Mode. No word on how it was dropped from a three-story balcony though… I work in desktop support. This morning, someone brought in a powerbook that fell from a […]

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Toshiba’s new 1.8-Inch 100GB HDD Destined for iPod

Toshiba will show a new 100GB 1.8-inch hard drive at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), in Las Vegas from January 8 to 11. Concidently, Macworld Expo is at the same time and Apple uses just such drives in the iPod. Hmmm… Higher capacity music players and laptop computers could be on the way thanks to […]

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The Apple Core: Patent application revelations II

In yesterday’s installment I covered some of the revelations found in Apple’s United States Patent Application #20060268528. Today it’s multiple input devices, dedicated power and new battery technology…

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Apple Shifts Pricing, Features for Refurbished MacBook and MacBook Pro Units

According to a report from MacNN, Apple is changing its refurbished inventory of older MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops since the company released updated units powered by Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors this fall. The company is currently offering its 15″ 2.0 GHz MacBook Pro with 512 MB of RAM, an 80 GB hard drive […]

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Thin Client Technologies En Route for Mac OS X 10.5

Although Apple’s reported iPhone has snagged an incredible amount of attention in recent weeks, a slew of new technologies appear to be en route to Mac OS X 10.5 according to a report by Macworld UK. Thin client technologies generally center around a larger host and save data remotely to hard drives and online services. […]