There has been plenty of speculation as to when Apple will upgrade MacBooks and MacBook Pros from the Intel Core Duo (code-named “Yonah”) chips to the faster and cooler Merom (a.k.a. Core 2 Duo) processors. Initially I heard that Merom was on tap to land in MacBook Pros in time for the holidays – late […]
Month: August 2006
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Windows 5x More Expensive than Mac OS X
How much does it cost to maintain Windows and Mac OS X? Since Apple has released five times as many major updates and over fifteen times as many minor updates to Mac OS X since 2000, you might not have guessed that Windows actually costs users five times as much to keep up to date!
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Samsung Release VGA 5cm Screen
Samsung have announced that it has developed the industry’s first 1.98” LCD panel to achieve 640 x 480 pixels (VGA resolution). This means that camera and mobile phone-size screens will be able to display images at 300 dots-per-inch, three times that of most LCD displays, and ten times that of many plasma screens. The practical […]
CNet’s Tom Krazit reports that Apple Computer has been chosen as having the best customer satisfaction “among computer individual vendors” in a new study. Apple earned a score of 83 – a 2.5 percent improvement over last year. Dell improved on its 2005 score by 5.4 percent to garner a 78. Read the rest of […]
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Changes in Boot Camp 1.1 beta
Boot Camp 1.1 beta contains many updates and is intended for all new and previous Boot Camp beta users. Boot Camp 1.1 beta includes: Support for the latest Intel-based Macintosh computers Easier partitioning using presets for popular sizes Ability to install Windows XP on any internal disk ISight camera support Support for built-in microphones Right-click […]