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admin @ November 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
With very little fanfare, Apple finally upgraded the last of its WiFi products still to be using 802.11g to the faster and wider-coverage standard, 802.11n.
Actually, 802.11g is still technically the current standard, as 802.11n is yet to be formally ratified, but it’s sufficiently well developed that we’re comfortable recommending it; in any case, the [...]
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The inside story of Apple on the high street
admin @ October 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Getting a Mac on the UK high street used to be tricky.
A handful of Mac resellers lurked in forgotten corners of cities, and only a scant few, such as Square’s New Oxford Street store, were located sensibly and stood out.
The problem was also that Mac resellers were rarely geared towards newcomers [...]
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Apple MacBook Pro 2008
admin @ October 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sure, the MacBook looks great, and the fact that there’s no longer such an obvious style divide between it and the more powerful MacBook Pro models is big news, but for our money the new unibody case of the MacBook Pro marks a bigger shift between the old and new MacBook Pros than between the [...]
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Apple MacBook 2.4GHz
admin @ October 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
At first glance the new Apple MacBook looks like a cross between its iMac and MacBook Air. It’s got the aluminum body and black keyboard reminiscent of the MacBook Air, but it’s chunkier and its 13.3-inch (viewable) glossy screen comes complete with an iMac-style black border.
It’s available in two product SKUs - a 2.0GHz Intel [...]
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10 things Apple should change in iTunes 9
admin @ October 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Apple promised big things for the launch of iTunes 8 last September, and what did we get? A music recommendation engine and another layer of UI glossiness in the Grid view. Genius? Not really.
What we really hoped for and expected was a complete ground-up revamp that prepped iTunes for the future. Why?
Because iTunes, as we’ve [...]
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Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
admin @ October 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We’ll say it upfront, right at the start of this review, that everyone should definitely upgrade their Macs to Leopard. It’s simply the best version of OS X yet, and there’s no reason we’ve found not to upgrade, provided your Mac meets the minimum system requirements. Leopard isn’t a Windows Vista-style bloatware addition that nobody [...]
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Nokia Tube vs Apple iPhone vs Android G1
admin @ October 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Well, it’s been coming for centuries. Byzantine monks prophesised the battle between three phones, with each looking for touchscreen supremacy… and now we bring you that battle. We hope the edge of your seat is comfortable…
Home screen
The place where it always all begins: the home screen needs to look good, or else you’ll just get [...]
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Apple iPod shuffle 512MB
admin @ October 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Finally: Apple’s long-awaited flash-memory based iPod. The iPod shuffle is white, it comes with 512MB or 1GB of memory, 12-hour rechargeable batteries, there’s no screen and it weighs about as much as a packet of chewing gum.
While there probably is another flash-based MP3 player somewhere out there that doesn’t have a display, almost all of [...]
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Apple Expo Paris 2008: the full report
admin @ September 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We weren’t quite sure what to expect for this year’s major European Mac show. In the weeks leading up to the event, when we asked industry insiders whether they would be attending, the response was usually along the lines of “nah, not bothering this year”. It’s not hard, at least on the surface, to see [...]
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Apple Expo Paris 2008: the full report
admin @ September 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We weren’t quite sure what to expect for this year’s major European Mac show. In the weeks leading up to the event, when we asked industry insiders whether they would be attending, the response was usually along the lines of “nah, not bothering this year”. It’s not hard, at least on the surface, to see [...]
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