The speed at which hard drive capacity is growing for laptops is painfully glacial.
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Day: July 11, 2006
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iPod nano: Full Metal Jacket
This reminds me of the metal iPod shuffle case (US$25) from Speck Products. In an effort to reduce the player’s susceptibility to scratches, Apple has been experimenting with aluminum anodized enclosures similar to those used in the company’s iPod mini digital music players, sources familiar with the company’s music plans have said.In what Apple chief […]
I introduced an experimental project to replace a fleet of PC laptops with MacBooks in Do MacBooks Make Business Sense as PC Laptops? It turns out that MacBooks do make pretty decent Windows laptops at a good price. The fatal flaw I ran into wasn’t a limitation in the MacBook however; it related to the partition map used in Intel’s new EFI firmware.
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The Apple Core: iWork ’07 wishlist
It looks like Apple is preparing to make a big splash at Macworld Expo in January with iWork ’07. Apple is believed to preparing Charts 1.0, a spreadsheet application that will round out their iWork ’07 suite. I prefer the name that Apple trademarked in June 2005 (“Numbers”), so that’s still an option. The new […]
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FileMaker Goes Universal Binary
Filemaker Inc. released FileMaker Pro 8.5, FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced, FileMaker Server 8.0v4 and FileMaker Server 8.0v4 Advanced as Universal Binaries. According to the company FileMaker Server is 116% faster on Intel Macs as compared to PowerPC Macs while the desktop client is 91% faster. Good news for filemaker users out there.