After comparing prices at the Apple and Dell online stores on 4/24/06 a 17″ MBP can be purchased for $400 less than and similarly configured Dell XPS M1710 even with the inclusion of XP professional for the MacBook Pro.
Day: May 3, 2006
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New Apple Television Ads
Apple has released a new set of TV ads. Featuring two guys, one representing a PC (and who just happens to bear a passing resemblance to Bill Gates), and the other a Mac (who looks a lot like Steve Jobs would probably like to!), they are short, humourous, and worth a look if you have […]
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Tiny Stocks’ Stock Manager for Palm OS
Stock Manager (US$25) is a best-selling stock portfolio program for mobile phones and is a must have for Treo-toting mobile technologists with a stock portfolio. If you have a smartphone with a mobile data plan you can get up-to-date stock information over the Internet. Stock Manager also comes with a desktop synchronization module that automatically […]
I was reading Mark Standen’s story from yesterday entitled 1.5GHz PowerBook Drives Dropping Like Flies and if it hadn’t just happened to me also (yes, seriously) I would have looked at the piece as a story of a couple of coincidental drive failures. It was the morning of April 19th when my PowerBook locked up […]
If it wasn’t bad enough that to have processor and CPU whine, poor Airport reception and solar ambient temperatures, it appears that some early MacBook Pro batteries are now failing. Christopher Price from PCSIntel.com has uncovered what appears to be a potential issue with the first batch of MacBook Pro batteries. According to his blog […]