Category: Laptops & PCs
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“Apple Tipping Point” Visualizes the Sweet Spot in Recent Product Pricing Developments
Reading Time: < 1 minute Apple Tipping Point: Paul Nixon explains Apple’s pricing strategy in a chart. While browsing Philip Torreone’s Flickr Photostream, I came across a really effective infographic developed by Paul Nixon of Nixlog. It explains the evolution of the pricing of Apple computers and iPods in terms of all the products that…
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MacHTPC.com Debuts to Explore Mac mini’s Possible Future in Home Theater
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bryan Greenway of Home Theater Blog and Jonathan Greene of Atmaspheric Endeavors are teaming up to launch a new blog called Mac HTPC to explore the potential of the Mac mini as a home theater system. A number of people (including me) think that the Mac mini has many of…
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Mac mini Photo Gallery on MacNews.de
Reading Time: < 1 minute MacNews.de, a German Macintosh news website, has published an extensive Mac mini photo gallery including disassembly photos. Great job to get these photos up so quickly. The Mac mini motherboard photo confirms that there’s one PC2700-compatible memory slot. Therefore, the most obvious place to save when upgrading your Mac mini…
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Apple Shoots the Lights Out in the Fiscal First Quarter
Reading Time: 2 minutes Before the opening of the NASDAQ today, Apple Computer announced record breaking sales and profits in the fiscal first quarter of 2005. Sales were up 74 percent to $3.49 billion. Profits were $295 million or $0.70 per share. This is the latest confirmation that the iPod and iPod mini product lines…
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Mac mini Would be a Great Addition to a Home Theater
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was happy to see that Apple Computer announced the Mac mini series of computers yesterday at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. It’s hard to call a machine that fits in a 6.5 x 6.5 x 2-inch case a desktop computer. What should we call it? A compact computer? A digital…
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Phase 2.0 of the Blogging Workstation Upgrade: Dead Pixel Society
Reading Time: < 1 minute I got the second Samsung 770 TFT (17-inch flat panel display) for the Blogging Workstation yesterday afternoon. I installed it and found that it had quite a few dead pixels. This was not supposed to happen, since the 770 TFT was supposed to have been reconditioned by Samsung to its…
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Phase 1 of the Blogging Workstation Upgrade: Inside the Case
Reading Time: 2 minutes Blogging Workstation Upgrade Phase 1: Replaced the video card and added half a Gigabyte of memory. More photos in the Operation Gadget Photo Gallery. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] I guess this is upgrade week on Operation Gadget. I’m supposed to get the second 17-inch flat panel display for my Blogging…
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Plummeting Costs of Desktop and Server Disk Storage Creating Opportunities
Reading Time: < 1 minute Jeremy Zawodny wrote a really interesting article illustrating the dramatic decrease in cost of disk storage for desktop computers and server. He pointed out that 250-Gigabyte SATA (Serial ATA) disk drives can be purchased for as little as $120. That means you can buy a Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) of disk…
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Mac Rumors’ Buyers Guide Useful to Those Considering an Apple Product Purchase
Reading Time: 2 minutes My brother-in-law John Kuykendall is in the market for a new laptop. One of the products he’s considering is the Apple iBook. He’s primarily looking at the 12-inch iBook while I’ve been nudging him toward the 14-inch iBook with the SuperDrive because that model has a much bigger hard drive and…