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Disk Utilities and Intel Macs

I wrote to each of Micromat (TechToolPro) and Alsoft (DiskWarrior) on the status of their products with respect to the new Intel Macs. Both said they will have new versions soon which run on Intel and that their current versions should not be run on Intel Macs. Micromat said that if you run their current […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Tablet Envy

In case you missed it, there’s a whole lot going on with tablet development these days – and it’s not in the Mac camp. The Wintel community is abuzz about Intel’s Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) platform and a new product from Microsoft called Origami due to launch on March 9. The very stealthy Origami Project […]

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REVIEW: Griffin TuneFlex Car Mount and Charger

Griffin Technology’s TuneFlex is a combination auto charger/flexible docking cradle for the iPod nano. It’s perfect for jamming to your nano in the car especially if you don’t have a good place to leave it (i.e. a cup holder) while driving. TuneFlex has a flexible steel neck that adjusts to any angle making it visible […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Mac OS X 30 minute hack “woefully misleading”

There have been a number of salacious reports around the Web to the effect of “Mac OS X hacked in 30 minutes” based on the results of a competition in which hackers were challenged to hack into a Mac mini connected to the Internet. The story made headlines but incorrectly characterized the break-in as a […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Macs are cheaper than PCs by half

I know that it’s probably old news by now but an article in Network World claims that the Total Cost of Owning (TCO) a Mac is about half of what it costs to own a PC. From Business 2.0… Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.